Dre Murray became a star on his college basketball team, and that lead to him being a self-described egomaniac. “I fell into the world of alcohol and [I was] drinking all the time and doing whatever I wanted to do.” In the middle of his sophomore year, he got very sick with pneumonia.

“I literally thought I was going to die. I was in my bed for about a week. During that time I had [many] thoughts of dying and what would happen. All my life I knew about God, I knew what was right, but I didn’t really live [out] what I knew.”

For much of his life unto that point, Murray had been running from God. Around the time he was sick, his cousin whom hd was close to was put in prison for drug related charges.

“[There] was a lot of stuff going on and I didn’t want to die. I decided that it was time for me to live the life that I should’ve been living. I just made a commitment to do it.”