During the1970s, a virtual flood of filth invaded the lives of average Americans through the sudden emergence of adult entertainment. One of its victims was a young man named Steve Gallagher, who became terribly addicted to pornography and the many other forms of sexual sin that so often accompany it—a secret lifestyle he kept hidden from his new wife, Kathy.
In 1981, Steve joined the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, but within two years his sexual addiction was so out of control that Kathy left him. Their lives would begin to take a drastic turn several weeks later when he put a gun to his head, ready to end it all. The Lord intervened that day and began to restore their marriage and give them each a newfound passion for God.
Eventually, Steve felt called by God to go into ministry. He left the Sheriff’s Department and entered a two-year Bible school in Sacramento. At this point, pornography and sexual addiction were spreading rapidly throughout the evangelical world—a fact that few church leaders grasped. It was during Steve’s time in Bible school in 1986 that the Lord laid a burden on his heart to begin a ministry to men in sexual sin—something unheard of at the time.
