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Michael Lawrence

Michael Lawrence was born in Peoria, Illinois, at the midpoint of America’s involvement in World War II. However, his roots were in rural Missouri. When Michael was one, his father enlisted and moved with Michael’s mother and their three small sons back to a small town in southwest Missouri. A sister was added to the family when Michael was five. 

Michael’s father, with one of his army buddies, started an electrical contracting business in the small town after the war ended. When the friend left for greener pastures, his dad began involving his sons in the business as soon as they were old enough. Michael began working in the trade at age 15—after school, Saturdays, and during summer vacations. He was taught a strong work ethic, developing an appreciation and affection for the work itself. 

Michael was married at age 19 and moved to Springfield a year later to begin a job with a local contractor as an electrician’s apprentice. At age 21, he earned a Journeyman Electrician Certificate, being among the youngest in the city’s history to be licensed as journeyman. He has worked locally in the trade ever since, subsequently earning a Master Electrician Certificate and starting an electrical contracting business that is now in its twentieth year of operation.

Believing that God was leading him into some type of counseling ministry, Michael enrolled in evening college at age 34, majoring in psychology. It soon became apparent to him that writing was one of the main reasons he was there. There was also a very special lady named Nell working at the university.

After a rather short courtship, Nell and Michael were married. He left college to focus on building a life with her. They became members of Abundant Life Covenant Church during the year it was established and continue to believe that God places members in the body just as it pleases Him.

Due to the time constraints of family obligations while owning and operating a business, Michael’s writing pursuits have been limited. His previous work consists of several articles published in PRESENT TRUTH magazine, an occasional guest editorial published in his local newspaper, plus an unpublished short autobiographical novella, MORTIMER, recalling life as a boy in a small Midwestern town during the 1950s.

Michael believes strongly that God continues to lift up prophetic voices in His ongoing program to reform His Church. He sees a Church being healed of her inferiority complex that has developed from a century of faulty dispensational end-time thinking. He believes that our social, racial, religious, political, and economic unrest and its subsequent behavioral problems could almost entirely be labeled: “Identity Crises.” He sees a Church living out in power the Apostle Paul’s revelation of her identity with our Lord in His death, burial, and resurrection—a Church at once humbled and empowered by the engrafted truth that she is truly the apple of her Father’s eye.