By India McCarty
WWE icon Hulk Hogan is opening up about his faith journey, sharing how he has “found peace through faith.”
“I accepted Christ as my Savior, but it took a while for me to get it,” he said during a recent episode of the “Try That In A Small Town” podcast.
Hogan shared that he became a Christian when he was 14. He was a guitar player, and some friends asked him to come play at their youth group meeting.
“I brought my guitar and ended up playing guitar for all the songs,” he recalled, explaining that he accepted Christ as his Savior, but it “took a while” for him to really understand what that meant.
Hogan said he “didn’t follow the path for many years,” but after the ups and downs of his professional and personal lives, he “just totally surrendered.”
“I just tell my big God about my little problems, and all those people that nip at my heels,” he shared. “I just pray for them. I can’t get involved with the drama because I just let God fight those battles. I just let Him take over.”
In a 2023 X post, Hogan wrote, “I accepted Christ as my savior at 14yrs old, and the training, prayers and vitamins kept me in the game but now that I am one with God, the main event theme of surrender, service and love makes me the Real Main Event that can slam any giant of any size through the power of my Lord and Savior and so it is, even now brother, AMEN!”
I accepted Christ as my savior at 14yrs old, and the training, prayers and vitamins kept me in the game but now that I am one with God,the main event theme of surrender,service and love makes me the Real Main Event that can slam any giant of any size through the power of my Lord… pic.twitter.com/SxcOJJwtRL
— Hulk Hogan (@HulkHogan) April 9, 2023
Hogan was baptized in 2023 at Indian Rocks Baptist Church.
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“Once I was baptized, I felt all new. It really was a major pivot,” he said during an appearance on THE 700 CLUB. “It’s given me the opportunity to prove that I’m faithful, that I’ll never make those mistakes again.”
Rev. Aaron Filippone, the pastor at Hogan’s church, added, “It was so fun to be part of [his] baptism and to see the ripple effect that that has made all over the world. He had people in Japan calling him just a couple minutes later. This is the way Christians go public in their faith and he felt it important to do what Christians do.”
The former wrestler posted about his baptism on X, writing, “Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life. No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love!”
Total surrender and dedication to Jesus is the greatest day of my life. No worries, no hate, no judgment… only love! pic.twitter.com/gB43hTcLU6
— Hulk Hogan (@HulkHogan) December 20, 2023
Hogan has been very open about his faith, and like so many others, has found complete peace in his relationship with God.
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