Tyler Ingalls Research Paper

Tyler Ingalls is a youth pastor based in New Era, Michigan. Before this, he was my youth pastor intern at my hometown church, Central Wesleyan Church, in Holland, Michigan. He is a huge reason of where my faith is today and my biggest spiritual mentor and leader. He has really pushed my faith and continues to do so on a day-to-day basis. He seeks the Lord with all his heart, so I was really interested in his perspective of “who is Jesus” to this spiritual giant of mine. After asking him this simple question, he summed up his following perspective as this: “for me, the biggest thing is that Jesus is my Lord and Savior.” In his eyes, these two things are different aspects of Jesus, but you need both of them in order to get the entire picture of “who he is, what he is about, and what he can do in your life.” He goes on to say that “so many times people like to choose one or the other and never really see him as both of these descriptions. By doing this, you are missing the whole point of why Jesus came down to Earth.” He emphasized that a …show more content…
By admitting the Lord as our Savior as well, we are able to see that “his grace has us covered”, and we don’t need to do anything to get on Jesus’ good side, because we only need to except his grace. However, He warns that some people that have Him as just their savior get “caught up with the whole grace thing.” What he means by people getting caught up in grace is that they stop there. They think that they are all good because grace is all they need to live a safe and heaven-destined life. The reason that Jesus provides this Grace is so that “when we fail, we don’t go back into shame”. Too many people think that “I gotta do this to get somewhere.” He trusts completely in God’s grace. However, Tyler believes that Jesus to him is more than that. By acknowledging the Lord as your savior, it presents the stepping stones in also viewing Him as our