{"id":101,"date":"2008-09-14T19:15:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/14\/trust-god-not-man\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:15:04","slug":"trust-god-not-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/trust-god-not-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust God, Not Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0chairman\u00a0of AIM, and one of the founders of G42, Andrew Shearman<\/a>, recently gave me the option to “get out.”\u00a0\u00a0 He sat me down in his office, talked for a little while\u00a0about family and the Air Force, but then suddenly stopped smiling.\u00a0 The Spain Training center was still dream at this point, and there were still many obstacles to be overcome.\u00a0 He laid it out for me: I had a family to support, 3 babies to feed, and so much earning potential in the business world.\u00a0 Was I ready to commit myself and more importantly, my family, to pioneering a training center in a foreign location; to commit myself to initially raising support until the training center\u00a0becomes viable; and to begin a complete lifestyle of relying on faith?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Up until this point,\u00a0I probably was relying somewhat on\u00a0Andrew’s power of personality.\u00a0 I figured “it” would get done because\u00a0G42 <\/a>was such an amazing vision for\u00a0Christianity, and who wouldn’t want to be involved with it?\u00a0 But Andrew was taking himself out of the equation–challenging me to question where my faith\u00a0was founded.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He told me to not do this because it was his dream–but do this because it was God’s dream.\u00a0 Do this because we [my wife\u00a0Rebecca and I]\u00a0were called to do it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>After a few minutes of thought, where I “reviewed the tapes” in my mind to make sure I wasn’t doing this because just because I was Andrew’s son-in-law, and I wasn’t doing this because I was simply tired of the Air Force life, and I wasn’t doing this because I wanted to live in Europe— I knew I was doing this because I was called to do it<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"World<\/a>God has called me to minister to the youth of America and to mobilize them to affect the nations for Christ.\u00a0 From an early age, my heart was tugged by missionaries’ stories, my mind was caught up by the cultures and the lives that are going on, right now, all over the world–without the love of Christ in their hearts.\u00a0 And I’ve built my experience working with and leading ministries for kids and young adults, and I’ve built my experience running projects, some small and some large. Which all puts me in a perfect place–building the vision of G42:\u00a0 Developing a training center from the ground up–from the selection of the facility to administering the training, to teaching leadership and ‘warriorshepherdship’… to overseeing and running the daily operations of the ministries of G42.<\/p>\n

Oh no, I’m not doing this for man.\u00a0 I’m not relying on man to take me by the hand… I’m setting off, walking\u00a0in the destiny that God has given me.<\/p>\n

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me. Psalms 56:11<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0chairman\u00a0of AIM, and one of the founders of G42, Andrew Shearman, recently gave me the option to “get out.”\u00a0\u00a0 He sat me down in his office, talked for a little while\u00a0about family and the Air Force, but then suddenly stopped smiling.\u00a0 The Spain Training center was still dream at this point, and there were still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}