The Way Interview With Jason and Amanda Towe

and we're rolling so yeah just tell us your what your life was like before you came into this understanding and then tell us how you did like what was the intrusion and then I'll keep asking my questions okay really in the beginning for us it was just more we were mainstream I come from a long lineage several generations of Sunday pastors really steeped in Southern Baptists is where really my background comes from and we were Americanized religion that's only were I knew early on in my life that that God really wanted more for me I didn't understand that didn't it wasn't really on my bucket list I didn't I didn't want to know one of the other direction and ran from that for many years of my life but the series of events through our life and our marriage and money became our God and God bless the work of our hands and you know money became God to us and you know I was actually quoted you know one time is some I asked me was enough enough and I said just about that much more just a little bit more and God really kicked that crush out from under us and we really began to feel God pulling on us strongly and we had to make a move if we had to do something and we just began with what we knew which was deeply rooted in the in the Southern Baptists ways you know my family being my grandfather his father being Southern Baptist ministers and you might say as mentioned that you know went to church nine months before I was born you know so we were very steeped in that and only after really beginning to see God and read things and studying the Bible for ourself resident just taking by being fed us our entire life for the first time we just began to pray and God really and I began to feel that draw heavily upon my life again for a calling it that I didn't understand and I sought it out and you know trial and error in the church and places inside the church that we could work and be active in the church and really until it comes down to a series of events that it was made known through several confirmations that God was calling me into the ministry and happened really one night about three o'clock in the morning we were talking in the bed one night and and it's laying the bed talking to his dark and we we couldn't sleep and Amanda asked me she says do you think God is calling you to preach and I just busted out laughing I didn't I didn't know she's a why why do you laugh and I said I don't know what else do you do I don't know what that's to do I just laughed it she would say that and like everybody knew it but me in the beginning and and finally when I really speeding up to that is where when I finally came to that understanding and got the confirmation I needed that God was calling me into ministry immediately after that there's this reoccurring thought I'll call it a thought and right now that's what I'll call it but there was this reoccurring question that kept going through the back of my mind and here's the question how do you know I don't know what that question was I know where was coming from Niner five at one point I thought I was going crazy I didn't realize what was happening and I'd always heard these men talking about God told me this and God said dad and I'm thinking we'll maybe is this is this it you know I've announced my call to preach and maybe this is how it happens God just says things in the back of your mind you know it's not this audible voices spoken to this in here but to this here and it is much louder and I heard it constantly I wake up in the middle of the night with this question how do you know I would be in the morning getting ready to go to work and how do you know rush to the bike almost as if someone had spoken it but it was inaudible it was just that clear crystal clear thought in question one to my mind and that rocked on I begin to pray about it I begin to pray and ask God is this head is this how you talk is this what you do you know I said I would you know preach and I will do whatever you ask me to do but is it because I don't get it maybe I'm slow to learn this is my first go-around of this I don't know anything about this so help me understand and I'll get no answer and just kept on on to the point I thought I was going to lose my mind it rocked on for about three months I believe finally one day I was on my lunch break at work and I I pulled through the drive-through fast food restaurant the ladies handed me raw food she's handed me my change here's a straw here's this have a nice day and the whole time I'm hearing all everything she's saying about my like a broken record I was hearing how do you know how do you know how do you know how to use this over and over and I reached my wit's in that I literally pulled out I found an abandoned parking lot in the middle of the day on lunch break and I pulled in the parking lot to slam my truck in here sled to stop and literally shouted a god not in anger per se but frustration and I literally said and I'm sure there are those who drove behind saw me that day but and wondering what was happening but I threw my hands up in the air and I said God I don't understand if this is you if you're trying to speak I don't know what you want to know I don't know what it is you're asking but if you would be so kind to let me know what it is you would like to know I would do my very best to answer your question I said I would do whatever you ask I agreed to preach I agreed to preach and teach your word I don't know what you want from me but if you'll tell me I'll answer your question and immediately immediately as soon as those words left my lips don't finish the question here's the question if you are going to preach and teach my word how do you know what you believe is true took about five seconds and the way of heaven fall and I realized that that one want moment I was a product of inherited religion I've been indoctrinated the set of beliefs my entire life God didn't ask me what I believed he asked me how did I know what I believe was true and I had to get really honest and I admitted to God that day that I fell into what I believe 95% of all self-identified professing Christians fall into is they have inherited inherited passed down in the indoctrination of religion that they don't understand they don't know they have a set of beliefs but they don't know why they believed them and I fell in that category and I made a commitment that day when I had to confess to God that I didn't the one thing that I was sure of is that I knew according to the Bible there was one name given among men and that name was what we do in Christianity yes Jesus what we know in this Hebrew name is Yeshua that apart from that name there was no chance for any of us for salvation so with that being said I made a commitment to God that day that I would take everything that I ever knew and hold it to the test of Scripture and that if it would stand I'll give him praise and thanks for it but if it wasn't if it would not pass the test I would change everything the only thing that I clung to you is hi when I describe it to people I took a piece of paper and I took down all that I had been taught and believed my whole life and I the only thing is at the top and page you know I wrote faith in Christ faith in Jesus Yeshua whatever name you know him as and I told that and I held on to that and the rest of it got what it up and thrown in the garbage and I started over I refer to that as my wilderness journey so that's where I kept my mouth shut my book open because I told God I would believe his book I would believe his word over anything I had ever heard but I needed a teacher and if he would teach me I would listen we had no outside influence at all it's not like somebody walked up and put their arm around me one day and said Jason let me show you a better way we had 0 outside influence to the essence I come home and I'm sharing this these things from my wife and I begin to study and I didn't know where to start I went back all the way back to do I carry the right book do I carry he really when he first started he started was just learning what other belief systems were I mean he went from Jehovah Witness to Lutheran Presbyterian here in Catholicism you know all the different religions and we thought it was a tool that he would be able to reach others we asked if you know what they believed and you could you know where the faults are and you can you know teach them the truth and little did we know that we didn't even hold the correct doctrine and the correct true we have inherited religion as Jason has said so that's how it began with him he just he wanted to know everything he wanted to know every religion every type of thing that was out there he wanted to know what they believe and why they believed it and in turn we learned a lot of the faults in our own belief system and so that's where it really comes yeah

Channel: The Way

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Keywords: The Way Documentary, Torah Movement, Jason and Amanda Towe, Pursuing Truth Ministries, orah Movement, Torah Awakening, Observing Torah, Torah Observant, Leaving Southern Baptist Church, Leaving Church

Id: Irz0dcKiSSo

Length: 11min 54sec (714 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 28 2017