Many people love Chris Pratt for his work on and offscreen. He’s a great actor and seems to be a pretty fantastic husband and father. But his journey to parenthood wasn’t easy. Chris Pratt’s oldest son, Jack, was born seven weeks prematurely and weighed just 3 pounds 10 ounces. Chris told the Christian Post that he recommitted to his faith in God when Jack was born. He and his then-wife, Anna Faris, only held Jack for a moment. Suddenly, the staff whisked him away for a month-long stay in the NICU.
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Chris told the Christian Post, “He had all of these issues going on. I prayed hard to God; I was in a season of transition spiritually at that time and didn’t quite fully understand. I made a deal with God again: ‘I’m sorry, God, here I am again, asking for your grace again.’ And He really saved my son. And that was the moment [my faith] was cemented. My heart softened, and my faith hardened. That was the moment that I was like, ‘Moving forward, I’m going to give my platform to God.'”
Chris added that he believes God gave him a platform not to be a star but to share His word with others.
“This platform was given to me for a reason,” he said. “I want to affirm the people who are believers in Christ. I want them to hear me and say, ‘Wow, that’s cool. He’s willing to say it. I’m going to stand up at work today and say it.’ But I also want to reach out to the people who have no idea who God is. … I want to be a light to people who’ve never seen light. I want to be a light to people who have seen light but turned away from it or been afraid of it.”
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