865: One of the Most Influential Persons in My Life: Bert Suluavale
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
I first met Bert in Fall 1997 when I transferred in as a Junior at The Master’s College (now University). Bert was one of my roomates and we quickly began a mentoring friendship. For the next 3-4 years, Bert poured into and helped lay some vital spiritual foundations in my life. He has been, quite simply, one the most influential persons in my life.
But Bert has his own tumultuous story, which involved getting saved out of a gang culture and thrust into the Christian spotlight as a singer, preacher, Chaplain, and mentor to many. After several years of major “Christian success,” he fell back into his old ways, even darker than before, and ultimately ended up in jail. He’s been slowly and faithfully building back his faith again, without needing the stage to validate his Christian worth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. I have a very special guest on the show today and I know |
| 0:05.7 | I say I have a special guest on every show and every guest is special in their own way in fact every non-guest is special |
| 0:11.3 | Did you know that you are special? I am special. We're all special with this guy is special in a very unique way |
| 0:18.3 | I let me say it like this. I don't think there's a single |
| 0:22.6 | person on earth |
| 0:24.9 | who has had a greater |
| 0:27.2 | spiritual impact in my life than Burt Sulavali |
| 0:32.0 | Many of you don't know the name Burt Sulavali. He hasn't written any books. He hasn't |
| 0:37.3 | He hasn't released any worship songs that I'm aware of |
| 0:41.0 | He is on a mega church pastor. In fact, he is a |
| 0:45.1 | As you'll hear he was a janitor for a couple years |
| 0:48.5 | They became a part-time pastor now. He's a full-time pastor of evangelism at Arbor Road Church, but Burt |
| 0:54.8 | became incredibly influential in my life when I first about a year after I first got saved |
| 1:02.8 | became a Christian and I went to master's college at that time. It was called master's college |
| 1:07.5 | And I was assigned a room in slight four. Slight was the name of the dorm and room four was a dorm room that held about four or five |
| 1:17.4 | Students |
| 1:18.6 | It was kind of the old married housing. So it was kind of larger rooms or like it is a kind of like a sweet like two bedrooms |
| 1:23.6 | Whatever you don't care about that, but Burt was one of my roommates and |
| 1:28.3 | just |
| 1:29.5 | I would say |
| 1:31.0 | one of my first and definitely my most influential |
| 1:36.3 | Mentor in my life and |
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