Chris Lutmer

About me:

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I love God, I love my family, and I love metal. Please allow me to be straight forward, and please understand with an open mind that I am a Christian, but am not "holier than thou".

I don't believe in forcing my personal spiritual beliefs down anyone's throat, especially when I don't always "practice what I preach" so to speak. So to be honest, I'm not even a very "good Christian" much of the time. (but am working to change that with every new day)

God will knock on the door in your life in many ways, through many people and situations, but he will not enter your life unless he is welcome, and you invite him in on your own accord. So when people decide to be those legalistic Christians that are "Bible thumpers" so to speak, they are doing more harm than good in his name, as they scare more people than they do win souls to God, as they portray Christians in an extreme irrational and fanatical fashion. I guess they did not read their Bibles, because God never instructed us to hang out on downtown street corners yelling at people and attempting to intimidate them with "turn or burn" philosophies. (I dare someone to show me in the Bible where it says to do the insane antics that I see people practicing in downtown Portland and elsewhere) God teaches love, not threats and intimidation, nor forcefull brainwashing tactics.

Now back to "about me" specifically; the deal is, I am a human being, therefore I am full of fault, and hence forthe; yes, I screw up! Too many Christians are judged too often for this. Many people that are not Christians, and especially ones that dislike Christians, wait for us to stumble, and exploit us when we do, because they expect us to be perfect.

Unfortunately most people forget, (Christians included) that if we were so pure and wholesome, and without fault, then we would need no God. And they also forget that he made us creatures of free will, so of course with free choice, bad choices inevitably end up being made at some point by all of us.

Many argue that God does not exist. But the funny thing with that is, almost everyone, (even most atheists) in their most desperate times, especially when in extreme pain or in fear of death, desperately cry out to God.

Yep, even most of the atheists basically pray, and beg God to fix what troubles them in their darkest times, when no thing of this world or other person can help them. So if God is such a far fetched concept, then why is it a natural instinct and something that spontaneosly reaches out from the very essence of our being, to desperately cry out to God when we are in our most dire time of need?

Sadly,for many people, when everything is better and their storm passes, these same individuals never even realize and acknowledge that he is real and did listen, and in fact was the one to bring their relief.

Usually the situation is written off as coincidence or something else, and the individual forgets all about God until he/she is in a desperate situation again.

The good thing is, no matter how much we screw up, and no matter how far we stray away from God, he is always still there when we are ready to believe and trust him, (but only when we do so whole heartedly) and no matter how much we may change, bad or good, he never changes. However if you are just hot and cold and never surrender all of your negative areas of your life, he will stand by until you are 100% with him. I have learned this the hard way.

Now that I've got the spiritual/moral views of mine covered a bit, here's some of the more standard stuff about me:

I have the 3 most amazing and beautiful kids that are the greatest gift that God could ever give.

I used to cuss like a sailor, smoke weed, and drink like a fish, but these days I'm just a regular working class guy/dad with a much more relaxed personality, and a little more appreciation for the simple things in life.

I love to play metal, because I believe it's simply the best music in existence. I like many different types of music, but everyone has a favorite, right? Well mine is metal.

I play bass, and rythym guitar.(bass primarily, especially since I sold my last guitar)

I like to write when I have time, I love the great north western outdoors, and there's probably a few other fairly insignifigant things I could add, but that all pretty much sums it up.