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| Brittni Ruiz now ministers to other lost porn stars after turning away from the industry to serve Jesus. Photo: Youtube/XXXChurch |
Former porn star Brittni Ruiz,
previously known by her stage name Jenna Presley, is a success story in terms
of her turn to Jesus Christ and away from the porn industry. But in a recent
interview, Ruiz describes the exact Bible verse that turned her life around
from smut star to ministry leader.
"Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that
woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet," John the Apostle writes in
Revelation 2:20. "By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual
immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to
repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of
suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely,
unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the
churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay
each of you according to your deeds."
Ruiz read that verse while on a plane
traveling to Las Vegas to film a porn scene during her turn back away from
Christ. She was first introduced to the Lord by her grandparents when she hit
rock bottom, but she briefly returned when she says she ran out of money. But
even during that return, she felt the hand of God guiding her to bring that Bible
with her on the plane.
"It was speaking about this
adulteress woman. [It said] God had given her plenty of opportunities to repent
... and that God would cast her into hell and I was like, 'Oh my goodness. I'm
the adulteress woman,'" she recalled. "'He's given me time to repent.
What's my problem?'"
The interview with Ruiz, conducted by The Blaze, explores more of the story first
made famous when Ruiz and her pastor at the XXX Church appeared on the talkshow The
View in 2013. Ruiz says that she turned completely away from the
sinful porn industry in December of 2012 for good after a difficult struggle
leaving the first time.
"I've learned so much. My life before Jesus - it was
treacherous. The sad thing is, I didn't know it was treacherous," she
said. "I didn't know what joy was, what peace was - I didn't know how to
be happy."
But the biggest hurdle for Ruiz in leaving the porn industry at
first was leaving behind the friends she had made and the over 80,000 Twitter
followers she had accumulated. In another recent interview with Breathecast, Ruiz says that she kept ties to her social
media accounts for a while before realizing that she had to just go ahead and
cut ties with every single link to her old life.
Ruiz deleted her Twitter account, changed her phone number, and
purged everything she had under the "Jenna Presley" name. She
described it as a situation similar to that of a recovering alcoholic going to
a bar or liquor store for full closure. She recognized that to fully leave
everything from that life and turn her life to Jesus, all temptation must be gone.
Two years later, Ruiz is working with
the XXX Church doing the very thing that got her on
the right path in the first place. The XXX Church, started by Pastor Craig
Gross, attends porn conventions to minister to the lost who attend. Ruiz, being
on the other end of that ministry at one time, is now the one spreading God's
word to her former co-workers.
"I love them, they are close friends of mine, we talk often
and that's pretty much what I do with them," she said.
But the question on most of our minds is regarding the awkwardness
of describing her life in the porn industry as it relates to her testimony.
Ruiz says that originally it was something she didn't talk about, but soon
realized that her whole story can't be told without revealing the whole truth.
"When I first came to the Lord I wasn't going to tell anyone
I was in the porn industry. I was just going to be this little office
receptionist and I'm not going to tell anybody. I started to feel really convicted
by the Holy Spirit and He was just talking to me and saying 'Picture Jesus on
the cross, and His hands and the thorns and the crowns around His head. He was
literally humiliated for you.' I pictured Jesus and it broke my heart. The Holy
Spirit said, 'was that enough for you?' And I said, 'It's more than enough'.
Then He said, 'How dare you be embarrassed of what He delivered you from. Help
people, set people free'."
And as far as a message to spread to the lost youth of today who
are taught that sexual impurity is OK, Ruiz says that we live in a God-less
world.
"The world makes it seem like it is okay," she said.
"Kim Kardashian has a sex tape. Paris Hilton has a sextape. These people
are well known. They make it seem like it's the right thing to do. We live in a
world that is almost godless. I didn't know God growing up. I was told by the
world it's okay to have sex with your boyfriend, it's okay to test it out. It's
not okay. I think that the best thing that we can do is keep spreading the
truth."
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