Have you ever wondered what God's will for your life is? Have you ever felt like there's a disconnect between what you read about in the Bible, and your experience as a Christian? Have you ever felt like there's gotta be something more to this whole following Jesus thing, but you aren't sure what it is? Do you feel like God is something that you know about, more than He is someone that you know intimately? Do you hear people talk about their relationship with God, but you struggle to feel the presence of God, and yearn for what they have? Do you struggle with feeling close to God because of cycles of sin that leave you feeling dirty, guilty, ashamed and distant from God, and no matter how hard you try you just can’t break that cycle so you can get close to God?
All of that was exactly my experience for the first 30 years of my life. From the time I was very young I knew I wanted God in my life, but no one ever showed me what it looked like to be an authentic follower of Jesus.
I grew up in what I call schizophrenic Christianity. I call it that because it was crazy and disingenuous. My family was good at doing routine Christian stuff: going to church, speaking Christianese, acting really religious around other religious folks, but once we left the church building there wasn't any noticeable difference between our family and any family that didn't claim to be Christian.
It's like the version of God/Christianity that was presented to me in practice by everyone I knew was completely impotent, while the God I read about in the Bible was POWERFUL and He turned His people into superheroes. There was just no life or truth in what I grew up with.
I once asked my mom why I should believe what she believed, but she had no answer because it wasn’t authentic for her. At 18 I left home and continued to do the version of Christianity I was taught growing up because it was all I knew. I kept trying really, really, REALLY HARD to do Christianity, but it never worked. I struggled nonstop with sin and just made a HUGE mess of my life.
I was the guy who either got saved, or rededicated my life to God at every summer camp, retreat, conference, or Christian event I went to. I was probably saved in that way around 42 times, but I just kept failing at it because I couldn't stop sinning and backsliding no matter how hard I tried. The problem is that I was never actually saved until I was 30.
In December 2008 everything changed for me. I was on the verge of losing everything, and I cried out to God and genuinely put my faith in Jesus for the first time. I surrendered my entire life to Him. Instantly who I had been was gone, and it was replaced with who I am now. I've never been the same since, and I never will be again.
I began following Jesus in earnest for the first time. Before that, God had only been something I knew about, but finally He became someone I knew personally, and I have become consumed with knowing Him more, and with following Jesus.
Since then, my life has been characterized by faith. I continually step out of my comfort zone into where God is at work, and as a result I regularly see the Holy Spirit show up and use me to reach the lost with the Gospel and to teach others to follow Jesus. My life has become unexplainable apart from God.
In March of 2009 the Holy Spirit led me to start a nonprofit mechanic company where my full-time job was fixing cars for broke people for free as a way to share the love of God with people. My life has become unexplainable apart from God. The way that God used believers to reach the lost with the Gospel in the book of Acts has become a regular occurrence in my life.
Not long after I was saved I read 1 Corinthians 11:1 where Paul wrote, “Imitate me just as I also imitate Jesus.” I began praying that I would one day be able to say that; not because I wanted to be anything special or anything like that, but because I wanted to be so much like Jesus that people saw Him instead of me when they saw my life. I wanted to follow Jesus so well that I would be able to help others learn what no one taught me growing up.
If someone had shown me at an early age how to follow Jesus, I might have avoided much heartache, but consequently I am now driven to equip others to follow Jesus in order to avoid the mistakes I made along the way. While I am far from perfect, and feel like an absolute train wreck sometimes, God loves me and His specific calling on my life is to strengthen other believers. For years He has been using me to do just that.
My call from God is...
"To strengthen others believers." My goal is to do for other believers what no one did for me; I want to help them learn to follow Jesus and experience God and discover his will and plan for their lives. I'm offering this Coaching Program in order to accomplish that goal.
Schedule & Start Date
Beginning Monday, April 24 I'm going to be hosting multiple coaching sessions per week over zoom which will include a discussion time at the end. I will also be scheduling 1 on 1 sessions as needed. There will be two groups running simultaneously that will each meet twice per week: one during the morning/midday, and one in the evening. The coaching program will last for 8 weeks. There will be a group meeting Monday and Thursday at 11am CST, and another group that meets Tuesday and Friday at 7pm CST. The first part of each class will consist of a teaching time, followed by a discussion & fellowship time. The sessions will be recorded and portions will be posted to YouTube for those who miss a meeting. While you can always catch up with what you miss by watching sessions on YouTube, you will miss out on the live discussion & fellowship time, which I believe is a critical component of success in this program.
Once you fill out the questionnaire below and are signed up I will send you the information for the zoom meetings.
Cost
There is no charge for the coaching program. I will, however, be accepting donations. God has been transitioning my life into full-time ministry, and has called me to support my family through it. That being said, I want everyone to be able to grow in Christ without money being an obstacle.
If you feel led to give a one-time gift, or become a regular contributor, there are links to my Venmo and CashApp on my home page. You can also talk to me about other options.
Questionnaire
If you want to join me on this journey please fill out the questionnaire below and send your answers to crazygodstory@gmail.com This will help me get to know you, and tailor things to fit the needs of the participants.
All of that was exactly my experience for the first 30 years of my life. From the time I was very young I knew I wanted God in my life, but no one ever showed me what it looked like to be an authentic follower of Jesus.
I grew up in what I call schizophrenic Christianity. I call it that because it was crazy and disingenuous. My family was good at doing routine Christian stuff: going to church, speaking Christianese, acting really religious around other religious folks, but once we left the church building there wasn't any noticeable difference between our family and any family that didn't claim to be Christian.
It's like the version of God/Christianity that was presented to me in practice by everyone I knew was completely impotent, while the God I read about in the Bible was POWERFUL and He turned His people into superheroes. There was just no life or truth in what I grew up with.
I once asked my mom why I should believe what she believed, but she had no answer because it wasn’t authentic for her. At 18 I left home and continued to do the version of Christianity I was taught growing up because it was all I knew. I kept trying really, really, REALLY HARD to do Christianity, but it never worked. I struggled nonstop with sin and just made a HUGE mess of my life.
I was the guy who either got saved, or rededicated my life to God at every summer camp, retreat, conference, or Christian event I went to. I was probably saved in that way around 42 times, but I just kept failing at it because I couldn't stop sinning and backsliding no matter how hard I tried. The problem is that I was never actually saved until I was 30.
In December 2008 everything changed for me. I was on the verge of losing everything, and I cried out to God and genuinely put my faith in Jesus for the first time. I surrendered my entire life to Him. Instantly who I had been was gone, and it was replaced with who I am now. I've never been the same since, and I never will be again.
I began following Jesus in earnest for the first time. Before that, God had only been something I knew about, but finally He became someone I knew personally, and I have become consumed with knowing Him more, and with following Jesus.
Since then, my life has been characterized by faith. I continually step out of my comfort zone into where God is at work, and as a result I regularly see the Holy Spirit show up and use me to reach the lost with the Gospel and to teach others to follow Jesus. My life has become unexplainable apart from God.
In March of 2009 the Holy Spirit led me to start a nonprofit mechanic company where my full-time job was fixing cars for broke people for free as a way to share the love of God with people. My life has become unexplainable apart from God. The way that God used believers to reach the lost with the Gospel in the book of Acts has become a regular occurrence in my life.
Not long after I was saved I read 1 Corinthians 11:1 where Paul wrote, “Imitate me just as I also imitate Jesus.” I began praying that I would one day be able to say that; not because I wanted to be anything special or anything like that, but because I wanted to be so much like Jesus that people saw Him instead of me when they saw my life. I wanted to follow Jesus so well that I would be able to help others learn what no one taught me growing up.
If someone had shown me at an early age how to follow Jesus, I might have avoided much heartache, but consequently I am now driven to equip others to follow Jesus in order to avoid the mistakes I made along the way. While I am far from perfect, and feel like an absolute train wreck sometimes, God loves me and His specific calling on my life is to strengthen other believers. For years He has been using me to do just that.
My call from God is...
"To strengthen others believers." My goal is to do for other believers what no one did for me; I want to help them learn to follow Jesus and experience God and discover his will and plan for their lives. I'm offering this Coaching Program in order to accomplish that goal.
Schedule & Start Date
Beginning Monday, April 24 I'm going to be hosting multiple coaching sessions per week over zoom which will include a discussion time at the end. I will also be scheduling 1 on 1 sessions as needed. There will be two groups running simultaneously that will each meet twice per week: one during the morning/midday, and one in the evening. The coaching program will last for 8 weeks. There will be a group meeting Monday and Thursday at 11am CST, and another group that meets Tuesday and Friday at 7pm CST. The first part of each class will consist of a teaching time, followed by a discussion & fellowship time. The sessions will be recorded and portions will be posted to YouTube for those who miss a meeting. While you can always catch up with what you miss by watching sessions on YouTube, you will miss out on the live discussion & fellowship time, which I believe is a critical component of success in this program.
Once you fill out the questionnaire below and are signed up I will send you the information for the zoom meetings.
Cost
There is no charge for the coaching program. I will, however, be accepting donations. God has been transitioning my life into full-time ministry, and has called me to support my family through it. That being said, I want everyone to be able to grow in Christ without money being an obstacle.
If you feel led to give a one-time gift, or become a regular contributor, there are links to my Venmo and CashApp on my home page. You can also talk to me about other options.
Questionnaire
If you want to join me on this journey please fill out the questionnaire below and send your answers to crazygodstory@gmail.com This will help me get to know you, and tailor things to fit the needs of the participants.
- What’s your name?
- What’s your contact info?
- Why do you want to go through this class and what do you hope to get out of it?
- Do you consider yourself a Bible Believing Christian? If not what would you hope to get out of this class?
- Do you believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of God? Why or why not?
- How does that shape your view of the world?
- Describe your salvation experience and how long you've been saved for.
- How different is your life before and after Jesus?
- What areas of your Christian life do you feel successful and what areas do you feel like you’re struggling or failing and want to change or grow?
- What type of church do you attend, and describe your involvement with them? (i.e. do you attend occasionally, are you up to your elbows in serving, somewhere in between)
- What does a relationship with God mean to you, and where are you at with that?
- Do you feel like you really need a change, or are you just looking to grow a little bit?
- What does it mean to be in the presence of God?
- What is it God wants from us?
- What is the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer?
- Do you worry about losing your salvation? Why or why not?
- What does it mean to repent?
- What is the significance of Jesus' resurrection?
- What does your Bible reading habit look like? Do you have a plan or method for reading?
- What is your preferred translation?
- What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus?
- What does it mean to be a disciple?
- Describe the Great Commission and what it means for Christians.
- Do you believe that God loves you and forgives all your sin no matter what?
- What does it mean to be a Christian?
- What is the church?
- Do we need church?
- How successful can you be as a christian without the church?
- What is faith?
- What does it mean to live by faith?
- What is prayer and why do we do it?
- What does your prayer life look like?
- Are you able to make it to any of the times listed?
- How soon would you be available to start?
- What's your level of interest? Anywhere from "just kind of curious" to "ready to jump all the way in and fully commit"