My name is Gary Moore. We who speak out
God’s truth must always be careful not to lay fingertip on His
glory. Therefore I sought anonymity and wrote under the
name Eutychus (Acts 20:9), which is what I
like to call my sense of humor. After all, how can you be
listening to Jesus and fall asleep? I desired that
focus rest on the message, not the messenger. However,
I've been told that some people find it easier to read things
when they know the person who is sharing. If you are one
of those then here is some information about me.
Over my mother’s objections, the summer of 1968, after high
school
graduation, I traveled to British Columbia; Missoula, Montana;
then onto Quebec where I spent six weeks. I went to Quebec with a
youth missionary organization, Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
While in Quebec, four other young men and
I passed out some 100,000 pieces of literature while living in a camper.
That summer I wrote out a blank check addressed to God and drawn
on the remainder of my life. Throughout the years there have
been times when I neither felt much like, nor did I see evidence
that, I was Christian. Yet, I spoke to God and told Him that if
He retained the check I would not retrieve it. Sometimes that
has been all I have had to continue on.
In 1969 I went to Switzerland with YWAM to attend a fourteen
month
School of Evangelism (SOE). There I met Jan, who later
became my wife. I ended up going back to the United States
thinking I'd not see her again. Near
Valentine’s Day 1971 I was shopping and, noticing the card rack,
I thought of Jan. So I picked out a card and mailed it to
Switzerland. Unbeknownst to me, she’d returned to California,
only 400 miles from me.
The card finally tracked her down … six
weeks later. Her thought was, “What kind of dweeb sends
Valentine’s card in March? This I have to check out.” She called
and
we arranged for her to come visit. (She had written to my parents while in
Switzerland but they had not met.) As it happened her visit
occurred the week I was to report to Ft. Ord for basic training.
We spent time together, got re-acquainted, and
decided that we were much better together than apart. I went off to Basic
Training. We wrote, called, and
by six weeks into Basic Training, decided to marry during the two weeks leave
before I reported for language school. That gave us only two
weeks to put it all together. In June 1971 we married in the church
Jan had attended since Jr. High.
We, OK... I, joke that we had a child born in each country where we
were stationed: Chantelle (1972) San Angelo, TX; Nate (1974)
Berlin, Germany; and
Ian (1978 ) Misawa, Japan. Before Nate was born, Jan and
I lost a baby during pregnancy. All tolled we spent eleven years in the US
Army, finishing out our Army time in Monterey, CA. We remained
there an additional two years until we discovered that Nate, then
in fourth grade, was allergic to mold and
mildew, the two major components of the Monterey soil. We moved to the San
Diego area, where, overnight, he turned into a new healthy kid. In 1991 we purchased our
first house where we still live and where it’s likely we will
remain.
I was raised in the Assemblies of God denomination then, when I turned
eighteen, I
found that their membership requirements attempted to legislate
my private convictions. I refused and
have remained trans-denominational every since. Early on in our marriage
Jan and
became aware of the walls churches erect but decided that, if we float with the Spirit’s ebb and
flow, then the walls will be of no concern to us and we’ll not recognize their
flooded existence. So Jan and
I have effortlessly floated from one group to another pollinating one by
the other as the Lord directed.
Attribute of God that I believe most central:
Faithfulness: were
He ever to move/prove unfaithful, all else would be moot.
Favorite one-liners:
“Walking in the Spirit is simple, you simply do the next small
thing God asks of you.”
Joy Dawson, paraphrased
Those to whom you may be speaking will never care how much you
know until they know how much you care.
Not attributed
“Our public witness is the 1/10th of the iceberg that can not be
pressed under regardless of the berg’s over all mass, great or
little. (the 9/10th is our private devotions).”
Corrie ten Boom,
paraphrased
“The wife is at least 50% of every union’s guidance system. Any
man who ignores her input foolishly disables himself and
the family he leads.”
Gary Moore
Favorite verses (in no particular order):
“The LORD has told us what is good. What he requires of us is
this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in
humble fellowship with our God.”
(Micah 6:8 GNB)
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for
good to those who love God, to those who are called according to
His purpose.”
(Romans 8:28 NASB)
“But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The
steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come
to an end; they are new every morning; great is your
faithfulness.”
(Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
“To fear the LORD is to hate evil. I hate arrogant pride, evil
conduct, and perverse speech.”
(Proverbs 8:13 HCSB)
“He revealed His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of
Israel.”
(Psalms 103:7 HCSB)
“Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be
able to resist in the evil day and to stand in all things
perfect. Stand therefore, …”
(Ephesians 6:13-14 DRB)
“And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the
great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the
Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever.”
(Exodus 14:13 DRB)
Theologically speaking:
I am of the Elephantine School. At best
I’m like a blind man grabbing onto one or other pachyderm
appendage then attempting to describe the whole to others. I may
be right about some of what I know, but I certainly will be
wrong more than I am correct. Further, I believe God planned it
this way to force us, His kids, to live in forgiveness and
dependency on the rest of the body for an approximate idea of
the infinite God. I actually believe He chooses to show you one
facet of His nature and
me another.
I believe God hasn’t changed one iota since Eden. In Eden man
knew instinctually what God expected of him. As time passed and
rebellion degraded our collective conscience it became necessary for our
Father to state explicitly what, until Egypt, had been an
understanding the 10 Commandments (first 4 are vertical and
the last 6 horizontal). Then when Jesus came back to 2, Love God
(vertical), Love your neighbor (horizontal). Then in Paul’s
writings “For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
(Galatians 5:14 HCSB)
All theology must:
1) Be consistent with all scripture
2) Be logical, follow a logical progression
3) Answer the questions posed to us by a searching world
4) Draw the adherent closer in relationship to God |
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