Who Is Pastor David Wentz?
Thirty-eight years as a pastor honed David’s passion for helping people connect with God and make a difference.
Add a varied church background, a first career in engineering, and graduate degrees from three very different seminaries…
charismatic,
mainstream and
Wesleyan-evangelical,
and you can see why he expresses God’s truth in ways everyone can appreciate.
As a United Methodist pastor he has served small, large, and multi-cultural churches in rural, small town, suburban and urban settings.
David served as a regional church consultant in the Maryland – D.C. area and has led workshops for pastors in Turkey.
In 2015 he retired to the rural Ozarks, where he writes, and works in God’s great outdoors.
In 1974, David married his college sweetheart, Paula.
They have five children, all with wonderful spouses, and fourteen grandchildren.
two Masters of Divinity, one from Melodyland School of Theology and one from Wesley Theological Seminary;
and a Doctor of Ministry in Christian Leadership from Asbury Theological Seminary.
His heroes are
John Wesley,
Abraham Lincoln, and
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(And for you old baseball fans, Brooks Robinson.)
Twenty-five hundred years ago God called Ezekiel to teach God’s ways.
He instructed him to proclaim the Holy Spirit – the one who revives dry bones and forms them into a dwelling for God and a source of living water that heals nations.
Bones are still dry today.
God still wants to dwell among his people.
Nations still need healing.
And people still need to be taught God’s ways and be moved by God’s Spirit.
That’s the purpose of “Doing Christianity.”
1 The LORD took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the LORD to a valley filled with bones. 2 He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out.
3 Then he asked me, “Son of man, can these bones become living people again?” “O Sovereign LORD,” I replied, “you alone know the answer to that.”
4 Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the LORD! 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again! 6 I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
7 So I spoke this message, just as he told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley. The bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons. 8 Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones. Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’”
10 So I spoke the message as he commanded me, and breath came into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.
11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’ 12 Therefore, prophesy to them and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again. Then I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 When this happens, O my people, you will know that I am the LORD. 14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live again and return home to your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Yes, the LORD has spoken!’”