[Re]Connected is a Gospel-driven, Gospel-centered ministry headed up by David Ketter and Matt Hammer. Borne out of a desire to see people discipled in the Gospel in ways that are tangible and authentic. By exploring the disciplines of Christian life and exploring what it means to be a community bound up together in Christ, it is our hope to build up the Church and work thus until the Savior returns for His Bride.

History

[Re]Connected was founded in Summer 2007 by Andrew Randazzo, Tom McGuire, and David Ketter.  Because of God’s clear leading in other directions, Andrew and Tom have since devoted themselves to primarily serving in other ministries.  With the team reduced to one, David continued with [Re]Connected, writing articles from time to time and looking for others to continue the work alongside him. When the hosting failed for a few months, Matt Hammer determined to work with [Re]Connected. So, in Summer of 2008, the ministry was relauched, with its current form.

Nature

[Re]Connected is intended as a resource and challenge to all believing Christians. Yet, like other Christians, we are not without our roots. David has his roots in the charismatic tradition, now augmented and embodied through the lens of Jewish and Reformed theology. Matt, raised in a Baptist atmosphere and very much in contact with his Baptist roots, has adapted those experiences to a Reformed Presbyterian theology as his foundation for thinking theologically. These perspectives and views will inevitably come through in our writing and explorations of Scripture and discipleship, but as the grandfather of Charles Spurgeon once said, “He cannot preach a better Gospel.” We are seeking to be aware that the value of [Re]Connected will never be in what we write except insofar as it points people to the Gospel of Christ. To that end, and that end only, are we committed.

Defining Passage of Scripture

Ephesians 4:1-16 (ESV)

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says,

“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.”

(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.