Matt Nelson recently joined the Cornerstone Lutheran Church team this week as our new vicar. He will serve in this role for roughly a year before heading back to Concordia Seminary in St. Louis to finish out the remainder of his schooling. While here, he’ll learn from Cornerstone leaders and enrich our ministry. Here’s a Q&A to get to know him better.
What’s your favorite Bible Verse?
Titus 3:3-6, “For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.”
Where are you originally from?
Michigan.
What’s playing in your car right now?
Country music/Christian music radio or Detroit sports talk radio.
If you could meet any Bible character, who would it be and why?
Noah, I want to see the look on his face when God told him to build the ark .
What do you like to do outside the office?
Anything sports related, fishing, and hiking.
Who’s the most famous person you’ve met?
I was in Ohio for a baseball game as a kid and a guy who said he was Morgan Freeman was at the game and he signed my shoe, not sure if it was really him or not but I’m going to say it was!
Describe yourself in three words.
Integrity, listener, relationship-oriented.
What do you like most about CLC?
I like the different ministries CLC offers at the different sites and how the pastors all work together.
What makes for a great workday?
Good balance of work and talking with people.
