Eric Zimmer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The pastor must have loved you for sharing this with the group.
Oh, exactly.
I was invited back promptly.
And then strangely enough, I stopped using drugs and alcohol in high school because I had started this tutoring program for disadvantaged kids.
And I just saw what alcohol and drug use was doing to their lives.
But when I was 18, my best friend started dating my girlfriend.
That hurts a lot.
It hurts.
And so somebody said, have a drink.
I said, sure.
And from that moment on, I was rarely sober again.
It was alcohol.
It was weed.
And then I was in, I played music in bands and I joined a new band and I was going to band practice.
And these folks were, I mean, more messed up than I was.
And I was like, what is wrong with these people?
Well, I mean, what was wrong with them was they were
heroin users.
And one of them said, you want to try it?
And I said, sure.