Ron and Angela Wilson Martial Arts from God’s Perspective I received a call from Ron requesting that we get together to meet. Ron and his family had recently begun attending the church I was pastoring. Sensing a call to ministry, Ron had sold his business in the northeast and had moved to Little Rock to work with a ministry. He was frustrated at this ministry, as he was spending his time on a computer filling out reports and feeling out of place and overwhelmed with the confines of his cubical. You see, Ron had run a successful martial arts club and was a Master in Wing Chung Kung Fu. He had never worked with computers or functioned in an office. For reasons unclear, the ministry he had contacted when he felt called to ministry had counseled him to sell his Kung Fu studio, move across the country, and sit at a desk so that he could “minister.” Ron loved people and loved to share the gospel, he just didn’t love the computer or his cubical. I remember the sense of wonder I had as this gifted man who had studied his martial arts for over 30 years had sold all of his equipment and studio so that he could be “in ministry.” Ron is a man who has never met a stranger and can immediately meet people and build relationships. Over the next months, I helped Ron see that he was indeed called to ministry, but this did not mean he had to dismiss all that God had done in his life for the past 30 years. Ron quickly left this ministry he had moved his family to join and came on staff at our church as the evangelism minister. He started a free Kung Fu and Tai Chi ministry for the community and began going door to door sharing the gospel and inviting people to the church to learn martial arts. Because of Ron’s skills in martial arts, people quickly began to come to church to study. During the break time, Ron would share a short Bible study and invite the class to church. He tied his martial arts to biblical truths and required Scripture memory in order to advance in belts or rank. In addition to mastering the martial arts skills to advance to the first belt, Ron required that the students memorized
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