Aaron Shier
Elder
Aaron and Abigail
Aaron and Abigail
What is your favorite food?
Smash burgers and veggies on the Blackstone—especially when I’m cooking for family and friends.
What are your hobbies?
Building things for my wife, playing guitar, camping and exploring the outdoors, coaching my kids, and pretty much any project that gives me an excuse to use tools.
Smash burgers and veggies on the Blackstone—especially when I’m cooking for family and friends.
What are your hobbies?
Building things for my wife, playing guitar, camping and exploring the outdoors, coaching my kids, and pretty much any project that gives me an excuse to use tools.
What is your short testimony?
I was blessed to grow up in a Christian home where my parents faithfully taught me the good news of Jesus Christ. At the age of 11, I came to understand that I was a sinner in need of God's saving grace. I placed my faith in Jesus and was baptized.
As I grew older, particularly during college, I drifted away from my relationship with Christ. I pursued my own desires and lived largely for myself. While I may have appeared to be a "good person," I recognize now that I was keeping Jesus at arm's length, unwilling to fully surrender my life to Him.
After nearly a decade of living this way, I found myself spiritually empty and burdened by shame. God began drawing me back to Himself, but for several years I mistakenly believed I needed to clean up my life before He would accept me. Through that season, God graciously revealed the truth of the gospel: salvation is not about what I can do for Him, but what Christ has already done for me.
It was a beautiful season of experiencing God's love and grace. I humbled myself, surrendered my pride, and recommitted my life to Christ. I've been walking with Him ever since, continually learning to trust Him and live in His grace.
My story is ultimately not about my faithfulness to God, but about His unwavering faithfulness to me.
What is your hope for Eternal Church?
My hope is that Eternal would be a church deeply rooted in the love of Jesus and the truth of Scripture—a place where people genuinely know one another, care for one another, and grow together as disciples of Christ with a shared heart to reach the lost within our community. I hope we are a church that equips people to live out their faith in their homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and community, and that the next generation sees an authentic faith worth following and that God is a great, wonderful, loving Father. Above all, I hope we remain faithful to where God is leading us and always remember that the Church belongs to Him.
I was blessed to grow up in a Christian home where my parents faithfully taught me the good news of Jesus Christ. At the age of 11, I came to understand that I was a sinner in need of God's saving grace. I placed my faith in Jesus and was baptized.
As I grew older, particularly during college, I drifted away from my relationship with Christ. I pursued my own desires and lived largely for myself. While I may have appeared to be a "good person," I recognize now that I was keeping Jesus at arm's length, unwilling to fully surrender my life to Him.
After nearly a decade of living this way, I found myself spiritually empty and burdened by shame. God began drawing me back to Himself, but for several years I mistakenly believed I needed to clean up my life before He would accept me. Through that season, God graciously revealed the truth of the gospel: salvation is not about what I can do for Him, but what Christ has already done for me.
It was a beautiful season of experiencing God's love and grace. I humbled myself, surrendered my pride, and recommitted my life to Christ. I've been walking with Him ever since, continually learning to trust Him and live in His grace.
My story is ultimately not about my faithfulness to God, but about His unwavering faithfulness to me.
What is your hope for Eternal Church?
My hope is that Eternal would be a church deeply rooted in the love of Jesus and the truth of Scripture—a place where people genuinely know one another, care for one another, and grow together as disciples of Christ with a shared heart to reach the lost within our community. I hope we are a church that equips people to live out their faith in their homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and community, and that the next generation sees an authentic faith worth following and that God is a great, wonderful, loving Father. Above all, I hope we remain faithful to where God is leading us and always remember that the Church belongs to Him.