Erik DiVietro

New Hampshire

I grew up in church as a pastor’s kid, so when I say in church, I mean it quite literally. I’ve seen real faith, fake faith and everything in between.

After graduating from Boston Baptist College (then Baptist Bible College East), I became a Christian school teacher and eventually the associate pastor of a fundamentalist Baptist Church. In 2003, I was ordained to the gospel ministry by that church.

The following year (2004), I left to become the pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Hooksett, New Hampshire. While there, I completed a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry from Master’s International School of Divinity.

Over the course of the years, I have moved away from the extreme fundamentalism I encountered at college and working in a fundamentalist church. While affirming the fundamentals of the faith (the inspiration of Scripture, the divinity and humanity of Christ, among others), I have continually sought to form a Biblical theology – one that is inductively drawn from the Scriptures rather than using a theology as a framework for the Scriptures.

This has necessitated that I learn continually about the history of the world into which the Scriptures were spoken. What I have discovered it that far more often than we would like, history humbles theology.

In 2010, Heritage merged with another local assembly to form Bedford Road Baptist Church. Since then, I have served as the full-time teaching pastor alongside some of the greatest lay elders I have ever known. Our congregation is intentionally intimate, built on relationships and environments where people encounter Jesus and journey together. As a result, our congregation is, in the words of one of my friends, “A jumble of God’s slightly off center artistry.”

I am also a husband and a father. In 2004, my wife and I welcomed our only child into our family. Our daughter is the joy of our lives, a living epistle of God’s goodness, despite the fact that she constantly beats me at Monopoly and tends to forget to do her chores.

My wife Nichole and I are both musicians. Although we are novice songwriters, we love the work of the great Christian songwriters of our generation – people like Rich Mullins and Michael Card. In 2011, my wife underwent a full thyroid removal and radioactive

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