ABOUT MATTHEW WIREMAN | testimony

How does one truly introduce himself to people he may not ever meet? Please allow me to try.

My name is Matthew Wireman and I am happily married with a little one in tow. I graduated from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY in the Master of Divinity program May 2007. I hope to enter the PhD program next fall with an emphasis in Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology.

I wasn't always a Baptist of the southern persuasion. I was raised by very good parents who had us in the doors of the United Methodist church from childhood (sometimes regularly, with long spurts of un-attendance).

I found significance and joy in making good grades and proving my intellect. But for my first two and a half years of high school I struggled with depression and contemplated suicide several times. I made people laugh during the day, but cried myself to sleep in the safety of the four walls of my bedroom - struggling with being a “husky” boy and no girlfriend prospects, I ate the sugary-sweetness of self-pity.

My Junior year of high school, a Canadian friend of mine invited me to a “retreat” with his youth group. At that time I was dabbling in eastern mysticism and a self-made smorgasbord religion. Wanting to prove my open-mindedness (and meet girls), I accepted the invitation.

From the preaching of the Scripture I was first confronted with my own pitifullness and need of redemption. I had tried to fool people into believing I had my life all together, while my masquerade of foolishness needed to be unmasked. I turned to James and said, “I need to change.” - my humble attempt at repentance from sin.

Evidences in my life of God's Spirit working in my life to make me more like Christ included my putting a rubberband on my wrist and asking Jerrod and Chad to pull it whenever I cussed. One time stopped that - the pulling of the rubberband, that is.

After high school I began dating a girl. We both desired to follow Jesus, but I had made an idol out of her and taking up my cross became secondary to taking her out. We broke up a year later and I got on my knees, thanked God for the relationship and asked him to make me more like his Son.

I began sharing my faith and reading my Bible.

My sophomore year of college a man who was on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ took me under his wing and walked with me in my understanding of the Christian life.

Since then I went to Santa Cruz and Slovakia for the summer with Crusade. After graduation I went to La Plata, Argentina for two years to work with Campus Crusade to lay the groundwork for a student movement.

Between my first and second year in Argentina, I returned to go to a conference to recruit students to come to La Plata to labor with us. While there I was reacquanited with the gorgeous woman who is now my bride. I returned to Argentina and we continued correspondence via e-mail and telephone.

I went to Raleigh, NC to see about this girl, and God blessed our time there. We were married the next summer and moved to Minneapolis, MN where I attended The Bethlehem Institute.

Two years of theological training and thinking about the church, pushed me to deepen my theological training. So here we are…

Feel free to learn more about the vision I have for raising up men steeped in the knowledge of the Word of God, or contact me personally.