While speaking to Allie Beth Stuckey at AmericaFest 2025 last month, street evangelist Bryce Crawford shared his faith testimony and discussed his approach to gospel-sharing. The newly married Crawford also explained his views on relationships.
Stuckey, author of “Toxic Empathy,” shared the interview with Crawford on the Jan. 14 episode of her “Relatable” podcast. First she asked Crawford, 22, about converting to Christianity five years ago.
Although he grew up in a Christian home and attended a Christian school, Crawford said he battled crippling depression and anxiety. On Christmas Day 2020, after forming a plan to take his own life, he went to a Waffle House in Georgia to eat a “last meal.”
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There Crawford met a despondent man whose wife was divorcing him. “There’s no growth in a relationship if the love isn’t mutual,” the man said. Those words made “time stop” for Crawford. “I thought to myself, ‘Maybe I don’t know God loves me because I haven’t given myself a chance to love him back,’” he recalled. “It was just supernatural revelation.”
The teen then issued a challenge to Jesus: “If you’re real, take away my anxiety and depression.” Those conditions disappeared that day and haven’t returned, he said.
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Conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey next asked missionary Bryce Crawford why “Jesus loves you” isn’t the gospel.
“Yes, Jesus displayed his love on the cross,” Crawford explained. “But Jesus talked about hell a lot and [people being] separated from God for an eternity because of their sin.” Humans “deserve the wrath and justice of God,” he added, and Jesus died and rose again “because there has to be justice, there has to be a payment for wrong…either with your life or [with Jesus’] life.”
While speaking to Allie Beth Stuckey at AmericaFest 2025 last month, street evangelist Bryce Crawford shared his faith testimony and discussed his approach to gospel-sharing.Click to PostAlthough humans can’t defeat sin and death, Crawford said, through faith “we are justified and made right in God’s eyes, and we get to spend an eternity with him. But if we decide we don’t want Jesus, it breaks his heart all the more. But we spend an eternity separate from him.”
