About

My name is Gregg Johnston, and I live in Indian Land, SC (just a little south of Charlotte, NC). I have an M-Div from Regent University and retired. I am currently working on my Doctorate in Ministry with a concentration in Spiritual Formation at The King’s University. My theological disctives would be Wesleyan/Charismatic Kingdom-based theology. I have been greatly influenced by such modern theologians such as George Ladd, Gordon Fee, Craig Keener, N.T. Wright, John Wimber, Derek Morphew, and C.S. Lewis.

I have been married to my wife, Karry, for 38 years. We homeschooled both of our kids and graduated both. What an adventure that was! For over 22 years, my career has been in the software industry. In my copious amounts of spare time (NOT!), I love to listen to music (Jazz and Blues mostly with a heavy dose of Stryper, Bloodgood, Whitecross, Rush, Kansas), and read. I am an ordained chaplain with the International Fellowship of Chaplains and a Bible Teacher at my local church.

My spiritual foundations are quite eclectic. I was not raised in a Christian household, and our family did not often go to church. I did have experience going to a school run by a fundamentalist Calvinist church when I was in Middle School (public schools were awful where we were). This kind of soured me on Christianity as a whole. However, in high school, I heard the gospel for the first time and gave my life to Christ through a Youth for Christ group. Some kids rebel by smoking or doing drugs. I rebelled by becoming a Christian. During high school, because my family was not Christian, I experienced many different denominational traditions – Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Christian & Missionary Alliance. In college, I met my wife, and she was Catholic and Charismatic, and that had a profound effect on my spirituality. I joined the Roman Catholic Church for about 5 years. Still, I found I could not continue in that faith because of some troubling doctrinal positions. From there, I flirted with Reformed theology for a few years but wound up back in a C&MA where I was a deacon and an elder and on the preaching team. Our family moved to South Carolina in 2011, and for 6 years, we were part of a large evangelical megachurch. However, in 2017, God led us to a Vineyard church where I served as an ordained Teaching Pastor. In 2020, the Lord led us to a small United Methodist Church, which has since separated from the denomination and become independent. There, I teach Sunday School, preach occasionally, and serve as an Elder Emeritus.