Who we are: Guerrilla Christianity is the online ministry of Pastor R. Bret Walker, senior pastor of Hudson UMC in Pedricktown, NJ, and Ebenezer UMC in Auburn, NJ.
What we are: We are Bible-believing, Christ-adoring, Gospel-preaching and Reformed Methodists, who stand on the authority of the Bible as infallable and true.
What we believe: We affirm the ecumenical creeds of the church – the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 AD. We also affirm the Athanasian Creed and the Westminster Confession of Faith, 1648, with the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms.
Why the UMC? I grew up in the United Methodist Church. My formative years were from 1969 (born in May, baptized in September) to 1987 (graduated high school) in the Pitman United Methodist Church. After agnosticism and atheism in college, I first came to believe in God through the 12-step programs of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous in 1993. I have been clean and sober ever since.
In 2008, my wife Erin and I began to attend church again at Pitman UMC. It was there that I received my call to ministry, and was entered as a candidate for Ordination in 2012 after graduating from Gloucester County College (now Rowan College of South Jersey). In 2013 I was appointed as a Licensed Local Pastor to Hudson UMC in Pedricktown, NJ, and Ebenezer UMC in Auburn, NJ. I have been under appointment at these two churches ever since.
Although I differ with the UMC on many issues, I feel that God has called me to this denomination and to these churches to stand on the authority of scripture, even in the face of so much liberalization in the UMC; to be a voice for truth based on the infallible and verbal plenary inspiration of the Holy Bible, God’s word to His people.
I take inspiration from others who have stood for the truth of God’s word: Martin Luther, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Geerhardus Vos, and J. Gresham Machen. It was when reading Machen’s book, Christianity and Liberalism, that I came to understand the difference between orthodoxy and liberal theology to be a wide and unbridgeable gulph.
I have been publishing my sermons since 2013 under the podcast name of Guerrilla Christianity, which was also the name of my LiveJournal blog beginning in 2008. Prior to that, the blog was the news page for my punk-rock band Max the Dork. Those who listen to the music I wrote and produced in the early 2000s will note a radical transformation in this lost sinner, saved by grace, and I pray that others will hear my testimony and believe in the one who rescued them from slavery to sin and death.
