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What Bible School Never Taught Me

Life Lessons, Kingdom Truths, and Spiritual Realities I Had to Learn in the Fire of Life.

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What Bible School Never Taught Me — Life Lessons, Kingdom Truths, and Spiritual Realities I Had to Learn in the Fire of Life.

A story from the fire of life.

Morning light across a windowsill beside the author's Bible

The Author

An ordinary man.
An extraordinary God.

I’m an ordinary man who said “Yes” to an extraordinary God and then spent decades discovering what yes really meant. These are those lessons.

Gary N. Matney

The Book

What Bible School Never Taught Me

Every chapter of this book comes from something I lived, something I lost, something I got wrong, something that broke my heart, or something God did that I still cannot quite explain. This is a field journal of life in the ministry that Bible school did not equip me for. This knowledge came through the refining fire of life.

A field journal, not a textbook.

What Bible School Never Taught Me — Life Lessons, Kingdom Truths, and Spiritual Realities I Had to Learn in the Fire of Life.

Why This Book

Real, honest, unpolished.

This is the real, honest, unpolished version of life as a follower of God who is still working his way through life in over 30 years of ministry. If you feel like you are in the fire of life, then perhaps you will find hope in knowing you are not alone.

A Bible, a notebook and a mug reading ‘A greater story still ahead’ on a desk in morning light
“A greater story still ahead.”
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