Story of the Week: All of Christ for All of Life

From a childhood shaped by scripture right up through today, God has been faithfully forming Matt into someone who lives every part of life for His glory.

For Matt Pirmann, faith was never meant to stay in one corner of life.

It belongs at the dinner table. In conversation. In work. In the questions people ask, the decisions we make and the way we see the world.

Faithfully Formed

Growing up, this idea seemed normal for Matt. He was raised in a home where Christ was at the center. His parents were deeply involved in their church. His grandfather was a pastor and much of Matt’s early community was comprised of believers. Around the dinner table, conversations often turned toward scripture or the deeper things of God.

“For the longest time, I thought it was normal that family dinner table conversations were deep theological debates,” Matt recalls.

It wasn’t until much later that he realized how unique his upbringing was. But looking back now, he sees how the Lord used the conversations and community he was part of to shape his love for scripture and his desire to help others understand God’s word and God’s ways.

“I think God equipped me over these years,” Matt says. “The desire and love to study the Bible in that way has equipped me with a desire and an ability to engage with people in such a way that we all think and live more biblically.”

God Story

Matt describes his testimony simply. In one sense, his story is similar to every believer’s story: dead in sin, saved by grace through faith in Christ, made alive, born again and made new.

He grew up knowing the truth of the gospel. If he had to point to a moment, he would say he was around seven years old. But Matt does not tend to frame his story around a single, dramatic turning point. Instead, he sees the faithfulness of God woven through his whole life — forming him, correcting him, leading him and teaching him to surrender more fully to the Lord.

After high school, Matt attended the Air Force Academy for a couple of years. He describes that season as one marked by spiritual immaturity, and he believes the Lord pulled him out of it. He went on to finish his degree in Michigan, then spent six months living in Kenya as a missionary.

Later, Matt joined the Army. During his time in the military, he often found himself leading Bible studies with the men he served alongside.

Matt got married toward the end of his time in the Army. He and his wife, Sara, eventually moved to Colorado Springs with their daughters and began attending Woodmen the first weekend they arrived in 2017.

Matt and Sara have served with the Woodmen Kids team, and their daughters are deeply involved in Awana. More recently, Matt’s ministry involvement through Woodmen has centered around men’s discipleship.

Encouraging the Brothers

For Matt, the goal is not simply to create activities for men to attend. It is to help form Christ-following men who know scripture, love the church and live faithfully in every sphere of life.

“I think men’s ministry should be what men do for the church and for others, rather than what the church can do for them,” Matt says.

Matt hosts a men’s group in his home once a month. The group started several years ago and is based around the invitation from Isaiah 1:18: “Come now, let us reason together.” Together, the men seek to grow in their understanding of scripture.

He serves as a mentor for other men as well. Matt intentionally pours into the lives of other guys, and he’s been encouraged and sharpened through the conversations they share.

Matt has also taught classes through Woodmen’s Discipleship Institute, including one on the canon of Scripture — how we got the Bible and why it matters.

Common Threads

Through all this ministry, Matt’s heart is the same: “I think the answer to everything is pray without ceasing and live in the Bible,” Matt says. “That’s what I want other people to want.”

For Matt, living biblically means learning to surrender every part of life to the Lord. Because God is sovereign, He is worthy of every part of our lives — our families, our work, our service, our questions, our gifts and our obedience.

From a childhood shaped by scripture right up through today, God has been faithfully forming Matt into someone who lives every part of life for His glory.

Matt sums it up like this: “All of Christ for all of life.”

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