Testimonies

Dear Pastor Boyd, At the end of 2003 my father was killed in a sudden, somewhat mysterious car accident. After his death I spent many months blaming God, and I could not understand how or why God would kill my father in such a horrible way. I was in the depths of despair when a pastor introduced me to your concepts of how good and evil truly function in our world. Needless to say, I’ve had an entirely different view of my faith ever since. In some ways, I find it more terrifying than ever to be a Christian living…

Hi Greg, You don’t know me, but you came to speak at a college retreat I attended here in the Northwest a few years ago. I just want to thank you. I am still so glad that I was able to hear you speak. It has forever changed my faith.  When I entered college, other events happened in my life which caused me to lose faith in pastoral authority and the Church. My faith in Christ suffered because I was torn between the Christian need for leadership and fellowship and my own personal distaste for it. I’d heard it said…

Dr. Boyd, I am writing as a follow up to a series of emails that we exchanged a year ago — it revolved around the drowning death of a 5 year old girl. You recommended that I read “Is God to Blame” which I did. It was and is hugely helpful. Thank you again for the corrective lens of a warfare worldview.    This Christmas, I was introduced to the grandmother of the little girl and I told her how deeply I was affected by her granddaughter’s death. She was appreciativate and mentioned how the parents were continuing to struggle…

Hello Greg,   We’ve never met but you are one of my favorite people on the planet. I am a counseling pastor/elder of a small church. Five years ago, I picked up “God At War” and never looked back!  I’ve read everything you have written and listen regularly to your sermons.  Thank you for pursueing God with such a wide open hunger and transparency.  Your passion has ignited such deep joy in my relationship with the Trinity.  If you are ever interested in starting satellite churches in the south we are a prime candidate.  Our worship team is the best…

Dr. Boyd,    I have to sincerely thank you. Your book “Repenting of Religion” has changed my entire paradigm of the Christian walk. It has also thrown me into studying Scripture more deeply, as being a Christian is not what it seems.   L from New York

Pastor Greg, …I am in the process of reading pretty much everything you’ve ever written and your theological process has quite literally redefined what it means for me to be a follower of Christ. “Satan and the Problem of Evil” has confirmed what I already knew in my heart….that the world is a war zone. Christus Victor as the guiding thrust of atonement just makes sense. Limited Open Theism is pretty much the only way to not make God a neutered sadist. In essence your kind’ve my long distance pastor… I want to thank you for all you have helped…

Dr. Boyd, Wow, I cannot say how appreciative I am to you for writing this book. I have read several books on the “Just War” theory, and it has made me sick. I do not understand how so many Christians could support a war theory that has almost zero Biblical or historical support. By historical, I mean the first few hundred years of Christian history. Through studying the Bible and history, I have come to the same conclusion as you. I was raised and still a member of a very patriotic church. I see the idolatry every Sunday, when the…

Dear Greg, Listening to BBC Sunday morning here in Nairobi and who do I hear but Greg Boyd being interviewed. Everybody listens to BBC here in Africa, so you had a few million more people hear your message. We are grateful that God is using you in this way. By the way several of our Mennonite friends are happy to hear your thoughts on pacifism and servanthood; sometimes it’s hard for them to believe that non-mennonites can interpret Scripture that way and at the same time they’re concerned that US Mennonites are moving away from this core belief of the…

Dear Greg: Greetings to you from the other side of the Atlantic. As we approached the end of the academic year, for reasons no one understands, our academic dean added another week to the semester. In my pastoral theology class, I had already told the students everything I knew and then some, so this addition presented a wee bit of a challenge. I decide to take the opportunity and introduce the 22 of them to cataphatic spirituality. I boldly plagiarized your material (CD and book), contextualized it and presented it.  I had no occasion following the classes to debrief the…

Thank you. I have been listening to your podcasts for over a year. I have shared them as I travel in Asia and Africa. I have read many of Greg Boyd’s books that have deeply touched our lives. We are serving God today because of His wonderful character of love that is modeled through Jesus Christ. Thanks for feeding us from a distance through the technologies we enjoy today. My wife and I have been serving the poor for 33 years and the last 27 years have been based in Bangkok, Thailand. We had driven from Bangkok and were on…

Greetings Greg and all the staff at CVM!       I just want to say a huge THANK YOU!!  I cannot express in words how your books and your sermons have impacted myself and my husband. I wanted to write because my world has been turned upside down in the last six months.  I will say from the beginning that I am sorry if this is long but I didn’t know how to narrow it down anymore.      I grew up with parents who were strict Calvanists to the core, and when I was in high school, we joined a…

Hi, Dr. Boyd. I would like to tell you of an occurence in my life that just recently happened. As a result of watching CNN’s “God’s Warriors”, I was introduced to your ministry and to your way of thinking. I grew up in a presbyterian church. Within the last several years, however, I have turned away from God. At some point, I decided I was smarter than the “small” christian point of view, and that made it really easy to intellectualize all the Jesus stuff out of my life. Watching the CNN show let me see and hear the beauty…