Introduction

I work as an engineer and I am currently between my 2nd and 3rd years of Seminary. My plan is to move west from KC and be involved in introducing people to Jesus and organizing churches.

The introduce people to Jesus part has always been hard, as predicted in the Bible. I have spent years in a Baptist church that told me to do evangelism but never showed me how to do it. With no one to take my hand and show the way, I never tried. I was living life in disobedience to the command of Jesus (Matt 28:18-20) but I did a good job of covering up any problems that I had with my disobedience.

My life has been slow progress toward deeper commitment to Jesus, my Lord and Savior. He has been my Savior since the summer of 1973 when I accepted the free gift of salvation at the end of a Christian summer camp. The active embrace of Jesus as Lord has been the tougher part. I earned a couple of Engineering degrees, was married to Lori, started work as an engineer, and did life. As the years passed, it became apparent that I could continue working as an engineer and have the life drained out of me, or I could embrace the Lordship of Jesus in my life and have a full life. Choosing the later has brought me down a path that has led me to working part time as an engineer and doing four classes each semester in seminary. The description of this path will have to wait until another time.

Currently I am trying to learn how to do 'evangelism', which is the churchy/seminary word telling people about Jesus. My plan this evening was to help out with a church that I do not attend in their efforts to reach out to others with the message of salvation through Jesus. The church cancelled. It breaks my heart the majority of churches in this country are like this church. Ignoring the command of Jesus as a corporate body and as individuals, just like I did so well for years (not that I am excellent in my level of obedience today, just trying).
I long to be part of a group who attempt to be obedient to Jesus. I am not concerned with perfect obedience, mainly because that is impossible. I want to be with a group of people who try.