I started Our Father’s House, West Unity, Ohio in 1995. I pastored the church for seven years. The following screenshot of the church’s website will give you an idea of what kind of pastor I was at the time. The things I have posted today will provide some context for those trying to figure out my journey from an Evangelical pastor to an outspoken atheist. Hopefully, what I have shared puts to rest the notion that I never was a “real” Christian. Whatever faults I may have had (and they were many), I was a true-blue, three-drinks-of-the-Kool-Aid Christian. No matter how hard my critics try to prove that I wasn’t really one of them, the evidence suggests otherwise.
Bruce Gerencser, 66, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 45 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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We are all glad you were so deeply immersed in evangelicalism. there’s hope for them all. You have proven yourself a far more dangerous adversary than a dozen Richard Dawkins could ever become. It’s too bad that you weren’t on an international talking circuit (especially with your oratory skills). I would pay $300. to hear you speak in a packed audience.
As I mentioned while commenting on another post, I appreciate the fact that you were up front and open about your beliefs (wrong though I deem them to be). You didn’t try to obscure them in order to lure new members in under false pretenses.
Dale and Obstacle—It’s called integrity. Whatever Bruce’s stated beliefs, he has been true to them.