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    A Boy Like Me

    • Posted by Dr. Wade Mobley
    • Date February 4, 2020

    “Stories like that make a boy grow bold; stories like that make a man walk straight.” –
    Rich Mullins, “Boy Like Me”

    It occurs to me, regularly and shockingly, that many who know what we do at the Free
    Lutheran Bible College and Seminary (to say nothing of the vast majority of our local
    community who know nothing of our existence or reason thereof), consider our mission
    as something other than essential. I disagree, rather vehemently, and ask you to allow
    my explanation.

    I contend that “establishing students in the eternal and inerrant Word of God” is
    essential. By “essential” I do not mean that this mission can only be accomplished on
    our campus; indeed, claiming so develops an embarrassingly narrow view of God’s big
    kingdom. Rather, our mission is “essential” because it is of the essence of life in Christ,
    explaining God’s world through the lens of God’s word, encompassing creation out of
    nothing, redemption from the fall, and calling to eternal life purchased at the cross and
    delivered through the word of God.

    What I have just described is essential; of the essence of life itself. It is a root-level
    enterprise, radical, if you use the actual meaning of the word. You receive this training
    as you read God’s word, as you worship together as a gathered congregation, and as
    you receive God’s sacraments in faith. You are equipped for life in Christ as you live life
    in Christ. Through His word, God creates and sustains faith in the human heart. He
    does so in poetry, prose, proposition, and story. “Stories like that make a boy grow
    bold; stories like that make a man walk straight.”

    At the time of this writing I have a ten-year-old girl and an (almost) ten-year-old boy. I
    am trying, every day, to teach them about life in Christ as a child of God and
    missionary in this world. I look at their (relatively) innocent eyes and think somewhat
    forebodingly of what lies ahead for them: an essential call down a path likely more
    difficult than mine.

    “We teach children about knights so they will have hope when they encounter
    dragons,” said 20th century British author GK Chesterton, in my paraphrase. I’m trying
    to teach my children to be men and women of God who stare adversity in the eye,
    make difficult decisions, and follow through with humble tenacity. I want them to lead
    where others have failed to go and most are slow to follow, then, when all has passed,
    to look upon the gracious work of God in Christ, faithful and content in both success
    and failure, needing no justification from self or fellow man. Christ, to them, is both
    justification and defense.

    “The greatest struggle in which we must engage is to keep the word and remain
    steadfast in it. If this word is torn from a man’s heart, he is lost.” -Martin Luther

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    Dr. Wade Mobley
    Dr. Wade Mobley

    Dr. Wade Mobley lives in Plymouth, MN, where he has served as President of the Free Lutheran Bible College and Seminary (flbc.edu) since 2015. Along with leadership of the Bible College and Seminary, Dr. Mobley teaches apologetics, Christian thought, leadership, and preaching in the two programs. Before joining the Bible College and Seminary, he served from 2003-2014 as pastor of Living Word Free Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, SD. Dr. Mobley is married to his wife of 20 years, Michele, and has two children, Hannah (11) and Benjamin (10). Dr. Mobley earned a Doctor of Ministry degree at Concordia Theological Seminary-Ft. Wayne in 2020, a Master’s of Divinity from the Free Lutheran Seminary in 2003, and a Bachelor’s degree in Ancient History from the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in 1999. He has additional studies at the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism, and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and four years of study in math, physics, engineering, and physical education at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD.

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