Dale Hanson

She sat in the chair next to me, and she told me the plan of salvation, which I already knew, that we are born sinners, that man is a sinner by choice and by character, and that we are separated from a holy God.

And there's nothing of our own merit that we can do to earn that, but Jesus Christ came, and He was God, and He was born of a virgin.

represented me in the human race.

And so he died on the cross with Dale Hanson's sins.

And so I get saved by believing that and accepting, the Bible talks about the gift of eternal life.

And I accept Christ's gift that he did on the cross.

And I became a Christian.

All that at the age of five?

Yeah, at five.

And it must have been one of the first,

things of definitive courage that I did, because beyond just the spiritual thing, I physically thought that I was going to be tossed off that bridge or jump off myself.

But, you know, obviously it was wrong because I was understanding the metaphor.

But that's been who I am the rest of my life.

The Bible says you're born again, which is how I got the title for my first song book, you know, is that...

the experiences in Vietnam and what we went through was horrendous.

Our odds of living was one in 4,000.

And it was so unique that when you come out on the other end, you're not the same person again.

And so anyway, that was kind of the first.

That's a vivid memory for a five-year-old.

Yeah, yeah.