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As for my background and testimony, I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness by my mom, and my dad was a professing atheist. While I have good memories from my childhood, our home was broken and violent, and I was bullied all through elementary school, so that a deep rage began simmering in me as I grew into adolescence and could have destroyed my life. Additionally, throughout adolescence and into early adulthood, I was severely addicted to pornography and sexually promiscuous, which also could have destroyed my life. And in vain pride, I was good in my own eyes, thinking that I did not need to be reconciled to God to have eternal life. But in 1995, when I was 20, through the reading of His Word in John 1:1, God opened my eyes to “see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Corinthians 4:4), and He saved me in calling me to repentance and faith—to turn from sinfully living for myself to live for Christ, trusting Him to make me right with God by His redemption and forgiveness, “not having a righteousness of my own which is from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith.” (Philippians 3:9, LSB) Therefore, I echo the Apostle Paul in saying "by the grace of God I am what I am." (1 Corinthians 15:10, LSB)
God then called me to preach His Word in 1997 and to pastor His people in 2000. I have little formal education, being mostly self-educated and persisting in advancing in the knowledge of God as it relates to everything in life. (I believe in the importance of Christian academia, but at this time, the Lord has not opened a door for me to fully pursue it at the formal level.) I prayerfully and diligently study to stand before God and others unashamed, straight cutting His Word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15) No matter how much education I attain, however, I will always keep in mind this observation about two of the Apostles: "Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and comprehended that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus." (Acts 4:13, LSB)
Soli Deo gloria
As for my background and testimony, I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness by my mom, and my dad was a professing atheist. While I have good memories from my childhood, our home was broken and violent, and I was bullied all through elementary school, so that a deep rage began simmering in me as I grew into adolescence and could have destroyed my life. Additionally, throughout adolescence and into early adulthood, I was severely addicted to pornography and sexually promiscuous, which also could have destroyed my life. And in vain pride, I was good in my own eyes, thinking that I did not need to be reconciled to God to have eternal life. But in 1995, when I was 20, through the reading of His Word in John 1:1, God opened my eyes to “see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Corinthians 4:4), and He saved me in calling me to repentance and faith—to turn from sinfully living for myself to live for Christ, trusting Him to make me right with God by His redemption and forgiveness, “not having a righteousness of my own which is from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith.” (Philippians 3:9, LSB) Therefore, I echo the Apostle Paul in saying "by the grace of God I am what I am." (1 Corinthians 15:10, LSB)
God then called me to preach His Word in 1997 and to pastor His people in 2000. I have little formal education, being mostly self-educated and persisting in advancing in the knowledge of God as it relates to everything in life. (I believe in the importance of Christian academia, but at this time, the Lord has not opened a door for me to fully pursue it at the formal level.) I prayerfully and diligently study to stand before God and others unashamed, straight cutting His Word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15) No matter how much education I attain, however, I will always keep in mind this observation about two of the Apostles: "Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and comprehended that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus." (Acts 4:13, LSB)
Soli Deo gloria