My name is David Prewitt, I am a 42-year-old non-trad student at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. I am married to Terri Prewitt and have three great boys Michael Lee (16), David Glen (4), and John Mark (3). I am double majoring at the undergraduate level working on a BS in Religion specializing in Biblical Studies, and a BS in Psychology with a specialization in research and counseling. I graduate this May 2010, God willing, and will start my M.Div. next year with a specialization in either philosophy or apologetics and then I will work on my MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, all at Liberty. (I know, I am a glutton for punishment).
I am an ordained minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I hold ordination and licensure through Jubilee Family Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa. In many ways Jubilee Family Church will always be my home church, as will New life Church of Knoxville, Iowa. Rev. Mark Wilcoxson, who pastored at New Life when we were members there, was the first to show me what discipleship really is and that church showed Terri and me what it means to experience true community, as did Jubilee Family Church.
This blog is how I am choosing to sort through what God is showing me through Scripture and my devotional life. I welcome comments and constructive criticisms openly because there is one thing that I have learned: it’s that no one can go through this life alone and experience what God planned for us. Most important is our relationship with Him and second is our relationship with each other, regardless of our philosophy.
This does not mean that I am a relativist or a universalist. I am actually closest to what Geisler calls a graded absolutist, which I will explain in a later post. There are many forms of spirituality and religion in this world but there is only one true God and He exists in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is only one way to God and to Heaven (yes, it’s a literal place and so is Hell) and that is through His Son, Jesus Christ, who was not crazy or a good man. He was the Son of God, which I will probably elaborate more on in a later post(s) also.
Back to the statement that we can’t go through this world alone. I believe that we are created for community which is also the title of a book on theology which has had a big influence on my life. God created us for Him and for each other. We need Him most of all, but we also need each other to bounce thoughts and ideas off of. All of our ideas and thoughts need to be set on the foundation of Scripture if any of them have any hope of being based in truth (and, yes, there is only one truth and many perspectives but perspective, while important, is not absolute and truth).
The things that I write here are what comes to me during my devotions and time of personal worship. They are my thoughts and questions and I am not saying that everything I write will be correct, nor am I claiming that they are anyone else’s theology or philosophy either. This is why I invite your comments. I invite you to follow along with me as I seek to increase the intimacy of my relationship with my Saviour.
I chose to call the site “Bonded for Community” because in my past I have worked many jobs that have required that I be bonded, which means that an insurance company has issued a bond or a trust on me for behavior that I will do during the course of a job. In Deuteronomy 15:16, 17 there is another form of bond which is one that was given to a servant who is set free by his master after 6 years of labor for a debt paid. If that servant didn’t want to be free and wanted to stay, he would become a bond servant after having his ear pierced through with an awl. The apostle Paul expands in his epistles to the churches on this concept when he referred to himself as a bond-servant of Jesus Christ. In the same way I am a bond-servant of Jesus Christ because He has placed a bond on me such that no matter what I do–good or bad–He has covered my actions with His Life and His Blood and He has bonded me (like glue) to His Church for the purpose of being used by Him to build that Church. The Lord has called Terri and I to a ministry of serving families that are in crisis and are disenfranchised by society and/or by the church, so in this way Christ has bonded me(us) for community. To paraphrase Gene Getz in his book The Measure of a Church, the family is the building brick of the church and the church will never be strong unless the bricks that build it are strong. I am blessed to be a brick maker that is bonded for community.
I am an ordained minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I hold ordination and licensure through Jubilee Family Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa. In many ways Jubilee Family Church will always be my home church, as will New life Church of Knoxville, Iowa. Rev. Mark Wilcoxson, who pastored at New Life when we were members there, was the first to show me what discipleship really is and that church showed Terri and me what it means to experience true community, as did Jubilee Family Church.
This blog is how I am choosing to sort through what God is showing me through Scripture and my devotional life. I welcome comments and constructive criticisms openly because there is one thing that I have learned: it’s that no one can go through this life alone and experience what God planned for us. Most important is our relationship with Him and second is our relationship with each other, regardless of our philosophy.
This does not mean that I am a relativist or a universalist. I am actually closest to what Geisler calls a graded absolutist, which I will explain in a later post. There are many forms of spirituality and religion in this world but there is only one true God and He exists in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There is only one way to God and to Heaven (yes, it’s a literal place and so is Hell) and that is through His Son, Jesus Christ, who was not crazy or a good man. He was the Son of God, which I will probably elaborate more on in a later post(s) also.
Back to the statement that we can’t go through this world alone. I believe that we are created for community which is also the title of a book on theology which has had a big influence on my life. God created us for Him and for each other. We need Him most of all, but we also need each other to bounce thoughts and ideas off of. All of our ideas and thoughts need to be set on the foundation of Scripture if any of them have any hope of being based in truth (and, yes, there is only one truth and many perspectives but perspective, while important, is not absolute and truth).
The things that I write here are what comes to me during my devotions and time of personal worship. They are my thoughts and questions and I am not saying that everything I write will be correct, nor am I claiming that they are anyone else’s theology or philosophy either. This is why I invite your comments. I invite you to follow along with me as I seek to increase the intimacy of my relationship with my Saviour.
I chose to call the site “Bonded for Community” because in my past I have worked many jobs that have required that I be bonded, which means that an insurance company has issued a bond or a trust on me for behavior that I will do during the course of a job. In Deuteronomy 15:16, 17 there is another form of bond which is one that was given to a servant who is set free by his master after 6 years of labor for a debt paid. If that servant didn’t want to be free and wanted to stay, he would become a bond servant after having his ear pierced through with an awl. The apostle Paul expands in his epistles to the churches on this concept when he referred to himself as a bond-servant of Jesus Christ. In the same way I am a bond-servant of Jesus Christ because He has placed a bond on me such that no matter what I do–good or bad–He has covered my actions with His Life and His Blood and He has bonded me (like glue) to His Church for the purpose of being used by Him to build that Church. The Lord has called Terri and I to a ministry of serving families that are in crisis and are disenfranchised by society and/or by the church, so in this way Christ has bonded me(us) for community. To paraphrase Gene Getz in his book The Measure of a Church, the family is the building brick of the church and the church will never be strong unless the bricks that build it are strong. I am blessed to be a brick maker that is bonded for community.
