My name is Zack.
I am a 20-something trying to figure out where my niche is. I am a follower of Jesus and know that my vocational and spiritual calling is the same, to be a “nobody who’s trying to tell everybody about somebody” as Mark Driscoll would say. I grew up in church, spent most of my life going through the motions that any good church brat is supposed to do. I really didn’t fully get what it meant to follow Christ until I was about 20. I have been an intern of some sort at a church pretty much from the time I started high school, and despite being burned, burning out, and seeing “behind the curtain” of multiple church staffs, I know that is where I am called. I am a student at Phoenix Seminary where I am pursuing a Master’s of Divinity with a focus on biblical communication. The blog title comes from what seems to be the story of my life as I try to really learn what it means and costs to totally follow Jesus and be a living sacrifice. Paul tells us to be living sacrifices, the problem is living sacrifices can climb off the altar.
I am married to an amazing woman named Tara, who if you saw her you would think she ended up with me by losing a bet. It’s not that I’m just that lame, she’s just that amazing.
I want this blog to be about my life, so it will cover things going on in my life, my ministry, my personal bible study, and the Dodgers, my beloved baseball team from L.A.
I think blogging can be self-centered, but I feel like I need to get better at getting my thoughts out and processing them, and this is one of the ways that I will be doing that, hopefully without being too narcissistic.
