“I finally went, and when I walked in that night to the bible study, for the first time in ten years the first person I saw that night was the man who had sexually molested me when I was eight years old; he was at that bible study that night and it was his first time at that bible study that night too which was just mind blowing to me.”
Throughout his youth, TJ had thought about what he would do and how he would feel if he saw the man who had molested him. “Would I want to hurt him? Would I want to choke him? Would I want to kill him? What would I feel in that moment?” He said,
“When I saw him that night, the only thing that I felt in the fullness of my body was compassion and forgiveness and I wanted to go up and give him a hug, and I’m like ‘What the heck? Why do I feel like this? Who do I not want to go hurt this guy? There must be some kind of weird Christian voodoo stuff going on at this bible study.”
TJ said that God worked on his heart that night and he met some guys who wanted to mentor him over the next few months and year. “God really just zoned in on me and made me realize that ‘To the exact extent that you’ve already forgiven this man for something so awful that he has done to you, to the same exact depths and lengths I forgive you every single day’ is what God really communicated to me in that moment.” TJ Pompeo said at that point he decided to give his life to God and let God do whatever He would want in his life.
