This is the first post in my new efforts to blog the journey of this youth pastor. I realize many will probably not choose to read all of this, which is fine, but I felt it important for me and for my future, to document this amazing journey.
I was born in 1979 to a loving, Christian family. I was (and still am) child #2. There would later come four more children. My dad was basically my pastor my entire life up until my college years. At the very young age of 5, I realized that I needed Jesus. No, I was not a terrible sinner, but I knew that according to the Bible, that I was not one of God's children, and I wanted to be. So as a 5 year old boy, I prayed on my bed, and asked Jesus to save me from my sins. A year or so later, I was baptized.
The young age at which I made this decision did cause me to have some doubt later in life when I was a young teenager, but this was quickly taken care of by talking to God again, assuring myself of my decision and once again asking God to save me.
Growing up as a "PK" (pastor's kid), I really did not have any desire to be a Pastor (okay, truth be told, at a very young age I probably did. I mean, what kid does not want to be like their dad at a young age. However, once I was old enough to begin to understand what it meant, I did NOT want to do that). I had seen from the inside what ministry was like on my dad, on the family, and I was not one to enjoy being up in front of people, so there was no way that the Pastorate was for me.
I was born in 1979 to a loving, Christian family. I was (and still am) child #2. There would later come four more children. My dad was basically my pastor my entire life up until my college years. At the very young age of 5, I realized that I needed Jesus. No, I was not a terrible sinner, but I knew that according to the Bible, that I was not one of God's children, and I wanted to be. So as a 5 year old boy, I prayed on my bed, and asked Jesus to save me from my sins. A year or so later, I was baptized.
The young age at which I made this decision did cause me to have some doubt later in life when I was a young teenager, but this was quickly taken care of by talking to God again, assuring myself of my decision and once again asking God to save me.
Growing up as a "PK" (pastor's kid), I really did not have any desire to be a Pastor (okay, truth be told, at a very young age I probably did. I mean, what kid does not want to be like their dad at a young age. However, once I was old enough to begin to understand what it meant, I did NOT want to do that). I had seen from the inside what ministry was like on my dad, on the family, and I was not one to enjoy being up in front of people, so there was no way that the Pastorate was for me.
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