Wayne Jacobsen
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Simply put I am the son of a farmer, husband of Sara, father of Julie and Andrew and grandpa to two delightful girls—Aimee and Lindsay! That's them at left. They are such a joy in this season of our lives.
I have been on a life-long journey to sort out what it means to live daily and deeply in God's presence. I also have an unremitting desire to help other people who are on that journey or want to go on it, which is why I maintain Lifestream.org. I enjoy helping people discover how to live loved by God and to live freely in healthy friendships with other believers. As we learn to do that, we'll also find that we will quite naturally become a conduit of God's compassion to a world that is broken and devastated by sin. I have written up bits of that story in books and articles, spoken of it in teachings,which you can find out more about on this website. I also co-host a regular podcast at The God Journey.
I consider myself a brother on a journey, willing to share what God has given to me in any way that will help others discover the joy of life in him. As you will see the Lord has been gracious to me, and everything he has done in me and through me is by his mercy, because I have never, nor will I ever, deserve anything Jesus has brought into my life. I hope the real story you glean from these pages is a greater awareness of God's unfolding work in you, not in me. That's a story worth knowing.
I have been married to Sara (with me at left) since 1975. We thank God every day for the relationship he's given us. We moved to Ventura County in 1999 because she wanted to pursue a career in interior design. After 25 years of taking care of me, raising children and caring for her mother and father at the end of their lives, she was ready to discover why else God put her on the planet. She started in interior design, a long-time dream, then ended up where we least expected—helping high school students sort out their future. After working for four years as a technician in a career center and completing her masters degree in Guidance and Counseling she is now on leave of absence from her school counseling job to help with the things God has laid on our heart.
We have two children. Julie is married and living about ten minutes down the road from us with her husband, Tyler Williams. (That's them on their wedding day, below left.) They are also the parents of our first grandchild, Aimee, whom we love a lot. Julie and Aimee also work in our office a few days a week. Andrew (on the right) now works as the manager of the Chemistry Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. We see him most weekends visiting around. He says it's to see the dogs and do his laundry. OK, we'll take it!.
My journey began on a grape vineyard in central California, where I grew up as the third of four sons. Our parents shared an incredible love for Jesus and willingness to help others. I made a personal decision to follow Jesus at a 1962 Billy Graham crusade in Fresno, California. During my early teen-age years my family connected with the early stages of the Charismatic renewal and for the first time I discovered the joy of a loving Father that wanted to be intimately involved in my life, giving me his strength and wisdom in the real circumstances I faced daily.
In the latter part of my high school years the Lord stirred in my heart a passion to know him better and to help others to do so as well. From 1971 to 1975 I attended Oral Roberts University and graduated with a degree in Biblical Studies. It was there that I met Sara, a classmate from Ohio. We dated throughout college and were married six days after we graduated together.
For the next five years I was an associate pastor at a Foursquare church in Central California. I learned a lot there, but grew disillusioned by the way the priorities of an institution overwhelmed the simple, relational life in Jesus. In 1980 we left to help plant a new fellowship in Visalia. This fellowship was designed to be an intimacy-based fellowship with Jesus at the center, and ministry committed to personal relationships instead of programs. I didn't want to manage people's lives nor the institution's programs, but to help people love Jesus more deeply and learn to live in response to his voice. House churches anchored our life together, and God began to open doors for ministry beyond the fellowship.
During this time I wrote a number of articles for various Christian magazines, and served as a Contributing Editor to Leadership Journal. In 1987 I finished writing my first book, about the absence of spiritual intimacy in the life of the Western Church. It was titled The Naked Church which was re-packead and re-released in 1991 as A Passion for God's Presence. In 1992 The Vineyard was released which was a farmer's view of the vine and the branches from John 15. During this time I was also invited to teach in churches and universities throughout the world. Under the auspices of Youth With a Mission I made trips to India, Nepal, Bulgaria and Albania to help train indigenous pastors regarding relational church life as well as taught at the University of the Nations in Kona, Hawaii.
In 1994 it became clear to me that fulfilling the cultural role of a pastor was at odds with the work God was doing in my heart. In spite of our best efforts to the contrary, a congregation I had helped start had become another institution with some of its leaders more enamored with power more than service. Attempts to work through that was complicated by a division in our elders regarding the future course of the fellowship. Some wanted to handle our growth through more elder-managed programs, and others wanted to see our relational life multiplied into new congregations. Through an incredibly painful time we knew we had more to learn by walking away from something we loved very deeply, rather than fighting to preserve our place among them. Surprisingly, we found ourselves more released to do what God had asked of us than we had ever dreamed.
Over two very painful years God rewrote a major part of spiritual lives by showing us how much we had tried to build his church on the religion of human effort and had not recognized how he is building his church in the world. I learned how much my desire for people's approval had blinded me to the simplicity of the gospel, and how the cross had satisfied everything God would ever desire for me. I learned how deeply Father loved me and how living in that love would transform me to be more like him. He also transformed Sara in ways I would never have believed. Coming out of that season we found the freedom to live the life in Jesus we always believe the Scriptures invited us to experience. Others had discouraged us as being too idealistic, but we soon discovered that God's life was even better than we had imagined. Our worst days outside the systems of religious obligation are still far better than our best days inside it.
Every attempt I made to seek normal employment was met with a deep sense that I was moving outside what God desired for me. I kept hearing him tell me that he would provide for us as we simply did what he told us to do. Over the years since we've seen God provide for us in some pretty unique ways and we've had opportunity to encourage others in the same freedom God had brought to us.
We had already formed Lifestream Ministries to coordinate my writing and traveling to encourage others. At the same time I was being increasingly invited to help school districts and parent groups resolve religious tensions in public education because my work along those lines in Visalia. Through BridgeBuilders I make presentations to school districts and education associations as well as do consultation and mediation where conflicts break out. My time is now almost equally divided between these two endeavors.
In 2007, my podcast partner Brad Cummings and I began Windblown Media to publish books we felt were valuable for people on a the journey of knowing Jesus. We had talked of doing this over the last couple of years for books we wanted to write for the spiritually hungry who are willing to challenge the status quo of organized religion. We began with a friend's book, The Shack, because we loved it and could find no publisher willing to publish it. Within a year it had sold over 800,000 copies and launched a new season in my life as a publisher.
We now live near the breathtaking California Coast about 35 miles north and west of Los Angeles in the rolling hills of Moorpark. We now know part of that move had to do with Sara's vocation and calling, but we are also interested in connecting with other believers in this region whose passion for God has taken them out of organized religion into alternative expressions of living as Father's family. We hope someday to host retreats and other learning opportunities in this area.
Sara and I have no idea where the journey will lead from here. We are enjoying our partnership even more as it has extended into Lifestream. Sara is a board member and the business manager of both Lifestream Ministries and BridgeBuilders and her insight is a valuable part of sorting out God's direction in both of these areas. I have further writing projects underway and a regular stream of invitations to come and share what relational Christianity looks like. If we could ever be a blessing to you or people you know, you have only to ask. We are passionate about helping people discover the joy and power of relational Christianity
But we don't claim to see more than a few steps down the road. We want to follow the Lord's call on our lives however he leads us and not seek to grasp anything for ourselves. Five years ago we had no idea we would have ended up where we are today. If we are as surprised in the next five, that will be fine with us too. We want nothing more than to one day sit on the lap of our Father and hear him say, "You did what I wanted you to do!" We already know that won't mean that we did it perfectly, since we already made our own share of mistakes, but it does mean we want nothing more than his purpose to be worked out in us, no matter where that leads us.
And we want nothing less for you, either!
Simply put I am the son of a farmer, husban… Read Full Bio ↴He is writing about himself:
Simply put I am the son of a farmer, husband of Sara, father of Julie and Andrew and grandpa to two delightful girls—Aimee and Lindsay! That's them at left. They are such a joy in this season of our lives.
I have been on a life-long journey to sort out what it means to live daily and deeply in God's presence. I also have an unremitting desire to help other people who are on that journey or want to go on it, which is why I maintain Lifestream.org. I enjoy helping people discover how to live loved by God and to live freely in healthy friendships with other believers. As we learn to do that, we'll also find that we will quite naturally become a conduit of God's compassion to a world that is broken and devastated by sin. I have written up bits of that story in books and articles, spoken of it in teachings,which you can find out more about on this website. I also co-host a regular podcast at The God Journey.
I consider myself a brother on a journey, willing to share what God has given to me in any way that will help others discover the joy of life in him. As you will see the Lord has been gracious to me, and everything he has done in me and through me is by his mercy, because I have never, nor will I ever, deserve anything Jesus has brought into my life. I hope the real story you glean from these pages is a greater awareness of God's unfolding work in you, not in me. That's a story worth knowing.
I have been married to Sara (with me at left) since 1975. We thank God every day for the relationship he's given us. We moved to Ventura County in 1999 because she wanted to pursue a career in interior design. After 25 years of taking care of me, raising children and caring for her mother and father at the end of their lives, she was ready to discover why else God put her on the planet. She started in interior design, a long-time dream, then ended up where we least expected—helping high school students sort out their future. After working for four years as a technician in a career center and completing her masters degree in Guidance and Counseling she is now on leave of absence from her school counseling job to help with the things God has laid on our heart.
We have two children. Julie is married and living about ten minutes down the road from us with her husband, Tyler Williams. (That's them on their wedding day, below left.) They are also the parents of our first grandchild, Aimee, whom we love a lot. Julie and Aimee also work in our office a few days a week. Andrew (on the right) now works as the manager of the Chemistry Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. We see him most weekends visiting around. He says it's to see the dogs and do his laundry. OK, we'll take it!.
My journey began on a grape vineyard in central California, where I grew up as the third of four sons. Our parents shared an incredible love for Jesus and willingness to help others. I made a personal decision to follow Jesus at a 1962 Billy Graham crusade in Fresno, California. During my early teen-age years my family connected with the early stages of the Charismatic renewal and for the first time I discovered the joy of a loving Father that wanted to be intimately involved in my life, giving me his strength and wisdom in the real circumstances I faced daily.
In the latter part of my high school years the Lord stirred in my heart a passion to know him better and to help others to do so as well. From 1971 to 1975 I attended Oral Roberts University and graduated with a degree in Biblical Studies. It was there that I met Sara, a classmate from Ohio. We dated throughout college and were married six days after we graduated together.
For the next five years I was an associate pastor at a Foursquare church in Central California. I learned a lot there, but grew disillusioned by the way the priorities of an institution overwhelmed the simple, relational life in Jesus. In 1980 we left to help plant a new fellowship in Visalia. This fellowship was designed to be an intimacy-based fellowship with Jesus at the center, and ministry committed to personal relationships instead of programs. I didn't want to manage people's lives nor the institution's programs, but to help people love Jesus more deeply and learn to live in response to his voice. House churches anchored our life together, and God began to open doors for ministry beyond the fellowship.
During this time I wrote a number of articles for various Christian magazines, and served as a Contributing Editor to Leadership Journal. In 1987 I finished writing my first book, about the absence of spiritual intimacy in the life of the Western Church. It was titled The Naked Church which was re-packead and re-released in 1991 as A Passion for God's Presence. In 1992 The Vineyard was released which was a farmer's view of the vine and the branches from John 15. During this time I was also invited to teach in churches and universities throughout the world. Under the auspices of Youth With a Mission I made trips to India, Nepal, Bulgaria and Albania to help train indigenous pastors regarding relational church life as well as taught at the University of the Nations in Kona, Hawaii.
In 1994 it became clear to me that fulfilling the cultural role of a pastor was at odds with the work God was doing in my heart. In spite of our best efforts to the contrary, a congregation I had helped start had become another institution with some of its leaders more enamored with power more than service. Attempts to work through that was complicated by a division in our elders regarding the future course of the fellowship. Some wanted to handle our growth through more elder-managed programs, and others wanted to see our relational life multiplied into new congregations. Through an incredibly painful time we knew we had more to learn by walking away from something we loved very deeply, rather than fighting to preserve our place among them. Surprisingly, we found ourselves more released to do what God had asked of us than we had ever dreamed.
Over two very painful years God rewrote a major part of spiritual lives by showing us how much we had tried to build his church on the religion of human effort and had not recognized how he is building his church in the world. I learned how much my desire for people's approval had blinded me to the simplicity of the gospel, and how the cross had satisfied everything God would ever desire for me. I learned how deeply Father loved me and how living in that love would transform me to be more like him. He also transformed Sara in ways I would never have believed. Coming out of that season we found the freedom to live the life in Jesus we always believe the Scriptures invited us to experience. Others had discouraged us as being too idealistic, but we soon discovered that God's life was even better than we had imagined. Our worst days outside the systems of religious obligation are still far better than our best days inside it.
Every attempt I made to seek normal employment was met with a deep sense that I was moving outside what God desired for me. I kept hearing him tell me that he would provide for us as we simply did what he told us to do. Over the years since we've seen God provide for us in some pretty unique ways and we've had opportunity to encourage others in the same freedom God had brought to us.
We had already formed Lifestream Ministries to coordinate my writing and traveling to encourage others. At the same time I was being increasingly invited to help school districts and parent groups resolve religious tensions in public education because my work along those lines in Visalia. Through BridgeBuilders I make presentations to school districts and education associations as well as do consultation and mediation where conflicts break out. My time is now almost equally divided between these two endeavors.
In 2007, my podcast partner Brad Cummings and I began Windblown Media to publish books we felt were valuable for people on a the journey of knowing Jesus. We had talked of doing this over the last couple of years for books we wanted to write for the spiritually hungry who are willing to challenge the status quo of organized religion. We began with a friend's book, The Shack, because we loved it and could find no publisher willing to publish it. Within a year it had sold over 800,000 copies and launched a new season in my life as a publisher.
We now live near the breathtaking California Coast about 35 miles north and west of Los Angeles in the rolling hills of Moorpark. We now know part of that move had to do with Sara's vocation and calling, but we are also interested in connecting with other believers in this region whose passion for God has taken them out of organized religion into alternative expressions of living as Father's family. We hope someday to host retreats and other learning opportunities in this area.
Sara and I have no idea where the journey will lead from here. We are enjoying our partnership even more as it has extended into Lifestream. Sara is a board member and the business manager of both Lifestream Ministries and BridgeBuilders and her insight is a valuable part of sorting out God's direction in both of these areas. I have further writing projects underway and a regular stream of invitations to come and share what relational Christianity looks like. If we could ever be a blessing to you or people you know, you have only to ask. We are passionate about helping people discover the joy and power of relational Christianity
But we don't claim to see more than a few steps down the road. We want to follow the Lord's call on our lives however he leads us and not seek to grasp anything for ourselves. Five years ago we had no idea we would have ended up where we are today. If we are as surprised in the next five, that will be fine with us too. We want nothing more than to one day sit on the lap of our Father and hear him say, "You did what I wanted you to do!" We already know that won't mean that we did it perfectly, since we already made our own share of mistakes, but it does mean we want nothing more than his purpose to be worked out in us, no matter where that leads us.
And we want nothing less for you, either!
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