Graduate Profile: Jobe Ringer

My Name is Jobe Ringer. I am from Grayslake, Illinois, and our family resides in Augusta, Georgia. I was raised in broadly evangelical churches that were baptistic. I cannot recall a time when I was not religiously active and never ventured into outward obvious rebellion against God. I was born in Adam, under sin and an enemy of God. My heart loved sin. I loved deception. I loved my own glory and pleasure. As a child, I lived according to what I loved, even seeking my own glory in religious acts and devotion.

God chose me in eternity past. Christ accomplished salvation for me when the fullness of time had come. Throughout my teenage years, the Spirit began to apply this great salvation to me. I was converted by the grace of God. As a young man I enlisted in the Army and was sent to California. There I met my wife Hannah, and we were married shortly after. After our wedding, I was sent to Fort Gordon in Augusta GA, where I began attending my current church, Crossroads Fellowship Church. It was there that my wife and I first encountered reformed doctrine in the local church.

Through our time at Crossroads Fellowship, my wife and I have grown in grace. We have had our hearts tuned to hearing God’s Word in the preached word. We have learned to love one another in our marriage. I have learned to take up the ordinary means of grace to mortify sin in the flesh. Since we joined, we have been gifted by God two boys, Ezra and Amos.

In 2022, when I completed my service with the Army, I began to pursue theological education. I completed my Bachelors degree online at a Christian university where I had thought I would continue working towards a Masters of Divinity. For many reasons I chose to look for other seminaries and ended up at Reformed Baptist Seminary.

My time at RBS has been formative and humbling. At RBS I have learned to be a better student and a better writer (I thank Vadim Chepurny for contributing to the latter). RBS has given me a great groundwork for exegesis and theology, as well as introduced me to the Reformed Baptist Network. I have been very grateful for the chance to attend the live modules in Coconut Creek, Florida, and highly encourage every student to attend all the live modules that they can. During my time at RBS, my church recognized the Lord’s grace in my life and ordained me as our deacon of missions.

There are many who taught me, mentored me, and supported me during my studies at RBS that I give God thanks for, but I will limit who I mention to two. First, I give God thanks for Dr. Gonzales, who has received many an email from me, and graciously replied to all of them. He has shown me hospitality and been patient with me. I thank God for his labors to facilitate RBS. Secondly and mostly, I give God thanks for my wife Hannah, who has patiently endured my studies, and continually encouraged me in my labors. My time and energies are hers by marital right, but she has greatly sacrificed what ought to be hers that I might give myself to studying the Word and being instructed in doctrine.

I plan to immediately begin working on further theological education after graduation. I aspire to lifelong pastoral ministry. Whatever my God ordains is right. May his glory fill the Earth.

Soli Deo Gloria.