![]() John earned his master’s degree in Counseling from Colorado Christian University, under the direction of Larry Crabb and Dan Allender. ![]() John earned his undergraduate degree in Theater at Cal Poly and directed a theater company in Los Angeles for several years before moving to Colorado with Focus on the Family, where he taught at the Focus on the Family Institute. But their romance did not begin until they each came to faith in Christ, after high school. John met his wife, Stasi, in a high school drama class. John grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles (which he hated) and spent his boyhood summers on his grandfather’s cattle ranch in eastern Oregon (which he loved). He is also president of Wild at Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God's love, and learn to live in God's Kingdom. John Eldredge is an author (you probably figured that out), a counselor, and a teacher. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost-they who are saved unto the resurrection of life and they who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. We believe that when a person exercises saving faith in Christ he passes, immediately, out of spiritual death into spiritual life and from the old creation into the new, a new nature and a new heart imparted being justified freely by grace, he is accepted before the Father as Christ, His Son, is accepted and loved as Christ is loved, having his place and portion linked to Christ and one with Christ-forever. The only remedy for mankind's pitiful predicament is redemption through faith in Jesus Christ. Because of original sin, unregenerate human beings are incapable of pleasing or commending themselves to God. As a result, all of mankind became separated from God the image of God in man was distorted mankind became subject to the power of the devil and the sinful nature was passed on to all their progeny. Adam and Eve, the first human beings, chose to rebel against God and go their own way. We believe God created mankind in His image. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. God is eternally existent in three persons, yet one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe in the One True God, the Sovereign, eternal Creator of all that exists, both seen and unseen. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, only, infallible, inerrant, authoritative Word of God. The core of what we believe, live in, and teach may be best captured in our daily prayer.įor those needing/desiring a few more thoughts: In other words, if you want to know what a person (or an organization) really believes, their creeds may not tell you nearly as much as how they live. ![]() Our real idea of God may lie buried under the rubbish of conventional religious notions and may require an intelligent and vigorous search before it is finally unearthed and exposed for what it is." Compared with our actual thoughts about Him, our creedal statements are of little consequence. Tozer, "That our idea of God corresponds as nearly as possible to the true being of God is of immense importance to us.
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