Minister and author Max Lucado is opening up about his past use of alcohol, saying he once drank beer to “manage” stress instead of asking the elders for help with his jam-packed schedule.
Lucado, the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio and a prolific author, writes in his new book, God Never Gives Up on You (Thomas Nelson), that he would sneak to the other side of town and purchase beer in secret. Fox News published an excerpt.
He did it, he said, because he felt overwhelmed. He began drinking some two decades ago, during the height of his popularity.
“The staff needed me. The pulpit required me. The publisher was counting on me. The entire world was looking to me. So, I did what came naturally. I began to drink. Not publicly. I was the guy you see at the convenience store who buys the big can of beer, hides it in a sack, and presses it against his thigh so no one will see as he hurries out the door,” he wrote. “My store of choice was on the other side of the city…
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