About Eric

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Who I Was

As someone born in the middle of what is now called GenX, I grew up watching the Original Star Wars. While I missed A New Hope in theaters, I remember going to see both Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in the theaters.

I ran around my suburban neighborhood using sticks for lightsabers and rocks for thermo detonators. I wanted to be Luke Skywalker, or at least a Jedi.

I started attending church in middle school and had a wonderful youth group experience my junior and senior years of high school.

I was "on fire for Jesus" during my teens. I read my Bible daily.

I asked so many questions in my youth Sunday school class and at Youth Group, my youth leaders bought me my own Strong's Concordance.

I went to a Christian college. I married my wife whom I met in youth group. I even spent a semester at a seminary.

The thermostat dropped a few degrees as I enter the work force.

I still spent time going deep into God's Word. I had book cases full of commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and early church history books.

I taught various Sunday School classes. I was ordained as a deacon.

Eventually I suffered a lot of "church hurt" and became a "missing person" in my church.

I stopped going to "Sunday School" even though I continued to go to church. After service, I would find a quite place to read or journal.

My Bible reading become occasional and then almost nonexistent.

Who I AM Now

Now, I am in the process of overcoming the "church hurt" I experienced for more than two decades.

I am reading devotionals daily that take 4-6 minutes to read.

I found that "missing person" I once was. I'm becoming that boy Michael W. Smith sung about back in 1998.

There was a boy who had the faith to move a mountain
And like a child he would believe without a reason
Without a trace he disappeared into the void and
I've been searchin' for that missing person.
~Michael W. Smith's "Missing Person from 1998

I am praying (aka having conversations with) God throughout the day on a daily basis.

Can spend hours again in researching movie quotes and how to connect them to the Bible and then work them into every day conversations.

I found the following quote online that sums up where I am. "I love Jesus but I can’t play the church game anymore."

I am tired of the old ways of trying to evangelize.

We live in a post-Christian America. People no longer know much about the Bible. What they think they know is often in accurate or a caricature of the Bible.

I am on mission to share the Gospel of Jesus with the world using movie quotes to start the conversation.

Will you join me? Use the form on this page and let me know.