{"id":4154,"date":"2023-07-12T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:52:52","slug":"actor-justin-gaston-said-his-daughters-taught-him-about-gods-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/07\/actor-justin-gaston-said-his-daughters-taught-him-about-gods-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Actor Justin Gaston Said His Daughters Taught Him About God&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4166\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4166\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/413\/2023\/07\/justin-gaston-daughter_credit-Kathy-Hutchins-Shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Hutchins \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An actor and singer best known for his appearance on CBS\u2019 \u201cThe Young and the Restless\u201d and NBC\u2019s \u201cNashville Star\u201d says his daughters helped deepen his Christian faith, teaching him more about God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Gaston competed on the sixth season of \u201cNashville Star,\u201d performed on \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d and starred in NBC\u2019s \u201cDays of Our Lives,\u201d \u201cThe Young and the Restless,\u201d and the Lifetime film \u201cSanta Bootcamp.\u201d His latest movie is a faith-based Pure Flix film, \u201cGod\u2019s Country Song,\u201d where he plays a country music star who paused his career to raise his 4-year-old son he never knew.<\/p>\n<p>Gaston grew up in a Christian home, was baptized when he was eight and started getting serious about his faith in his teens. He said, \u201cWhen I was a teenager, I went to church camp and met God there. I had a genuine encounter. I can remember being in high school, and I would just sit there in school and read my Bible all day long. I don\u2019t even know what they were teaching me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKrNfcKcgJY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gaston and his wife, actress Melissa Ordway Gaston, are instilling that faith in their five and seven-year-old daughters. Gaston told Christian Headlines, \u201cThey\u2019ve taught me so much about God and His love for me. Through them, I understand that love more as a father. I love them more than anything in the world, and I would do anything for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being a parent, he said, has helped him better understand unconditional love. Gaston cited scientific studies that show the positive impact of children on men. \u201cThat\u2019s the way God set things up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Gaston recently released a new single,\u00a0<em>The One<\/em>, under his stage name, Justin Michael Gaston. The song tells how Jesus is the \u201conly one that can save me,\u201d Gaston said. \u201cI think it is a beautiful song.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An actor and singer best known for his appearance on CBS\u2019 \u201cThe Young and the Restless\u201d and NBC\u2019s \u201cNashville Star\u201d says his daughters helped deepen his Christian faith, teaching him more about God\u2019s love. Justin Gaston competed on the sixth season of \u201cNashville Star,\u201d performed on \u201cAmerican Idol,\u201d and starred in NBC\u2019s \u201cDays of Our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":4166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48],"tags":[557,554,90],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-parenting","tag-gods-love","tag-justin-gaston","tag-parenting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Actor Justin Gaston Said His Daughters Taught Him About God&#039;s Love<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Justin Gaston, who&#039;s starring in a new Pure Flix film &quot;God&#039;s Country Song,&quot; recently shared how his daughters 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