From filth to faith

Jesus changes the life of a porn star

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 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. According to a report in The Gospel Herald.