Jim Kelly reflects on why he 'decided to change my life' and turn to faith

Jim Kelly grew up going to religion mostly due to the fact that his parents made him – but those Sunday visits turned retired to beryllium a precursor to however helium lives his beingness today.

The Hall of Fame backmost is simply a devout Christian, but it took a agelong portion for him to get to that point.

In fact, adjacent arsenic helium began to trust connected his faith, God "tested" him, helium said connected a caller podcast.

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Former Buffalo Bills backmost Jim Kelly poses connected the reddish carpet earlier the NFL Honors grant amusement astatine Symphony Hall. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

Kelly, of course, mislaid 4 Super Bowls successful his career, but that pales successful examination to his 4 crab battles and losing his son, Hunter, astatine the property of 8 successful 2005.

"I adjacent got to a point, it would thrust maine crazy, I said to my wife, ‘If being a Christian is being similar you, I don’t privation to beryllium one.' I was huffy astatine God. I was like, ‘Man, you enactment maine done each this? I can’t grip this,'" Kelly said connected "Grit and Grace."

While his lad was sick with a fatal globoid-cell leukodystrophy, Kelly was moving arsenic a shot expert and "away from location a lot."

"To beryllium honorable with you, it was a pugnacious portion of my life, not lone for me, but for maine and my wife. It was a struggle. We weren't getting along… Me and my woman mislaid involvement successful each other," said Kelly, who admitted helium was unfaithful.

Jim Kelly stands connected the tract earlier a crippled betwixt the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans astatine Highmark Stadium. (Mark Konezny-USA Today Sports)

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"Unfortunately, it got to a constituent wherever my mother-in-law confronted maine and said, ‘If you don’t alteration your life, you're going to suffer everything.' And she was right. I manned up, I said, ‘I’m gonna suffer everything.' So, I changed my life… I wholly admitted everything."

Kelly said God "threw each curveball astatine me," but for bully reason.

"I cognize wherefore helium enactment maine done each that – to trial my religion and if I'm ever going to springiness up connected Him. And there's nary way. He's the crushed I'm inactive here, but my wife, my daughters, and the beingness I unrecorded now, I convey God each time for it."

Kelly really said helium "didn't privation to hear" astir religion, adding that it was "getitng forced connected me" by his chap NFL players. So, helium gave proposal to those who whitethorn privation to assistance others find their faith.

Jim Kelly waves to the assemblage arsenic helium leaves the tract during the Buffalo Bills' grooming campy astatine St. John Fisher University successful Rochester, New York, Aug. 10, 2022. (Shawn Dowd/USA Today Network)

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"If you privation to alteration someone's life, don't propulsion it connected them. They'll travel astir connected their time. If you support throwing it and forcing them into it, you're gonna scare them away. That's what happened to maine aboriginal on, but the much I thought astir it, the much I wanted it. I took it slow, my woman did specified a large job, she knew erstwhile to speech to maine astir it and erstwhile not to. She dilatory brought maine into it, and present I americium now."

Kelly has been cancer-free since 2019.

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