Taryn Terrell spoke with the Christian Post about her renewed faith and more. Check out the highlights:
On losing track of her relationship with God: “I went on the road with WWE for a while and that want to be a Christian sort of went by the wayside. I lived in sin. I was not a good person. I can say that I am ashamed of who I was in a lot of ways and the decisions that I made, and it was because I wasn’t a Christian. A lot of times I thought, ‘How am I going to be a Christian?’ How can I be accepted by God? I have done awful things. I have not lived as a Christian. I lived as a sinner.’”
On rediscovering her faith over the summer: “What I didn’t understand about being saved was that I could be forgiven. I could truly be forgiven for all of the bad things that I have done. I will tell you that the moment that I truly feel and believe that I was saved — all these years of thinking, ‘Sure, I’m a Christian. I am going to Heaven. I believe that I was going there’ — I was speaking with a Christian counselor in June and he asked me … ‘Are you saved?’ Again, I gave the same answer, ‘Yeah, sure. I believe in God, I believe in Heaven.’ It was then that he said, ‘Well, that’s great, but being a Christian means that you believe in Jesus. You believe that He died on the cross, that He died for our sins, that He was resurrected, that He is going to come again. That is your ticket to Heaven. That is your ticket to the Kingdom,’” Terrell recalled the counselor saying. “It registered. It was something that I don’t know if I had heard before, or if I had heard it before, I didn’t truly hear it…I remember I was driving and my daughter was in the back seat and I had this powerful, overwhelming feeling that came over me that somebody died. God sent Jesus to die for our sins. We are not talking about somebody who says, ‘Sure, you are forgiven.’ We are talking about somebody who suffered, who died so that we could be forgiven. The heaviness of that came upon me and I went to church that next week and my pastor was talking about the same thing, the exact same thing. If God wasn’t trying to talk to me than I don’t know anything.”
On being new to her relationship with Christianity: “This is the beginning of my journey. This is me, an infant Christian, coming to you because I was just so recently on the other side wondering ‘What does all this mean? Am I going to Heaven? Do I really need to have this personal relationship with God? Can’t I just be a good person, and do good things? Isn’t that enough? But it’s not. It’s not enough. You have that relationship.”
