Biography
Biography
My name is Nicholas R. Clark, and I serve as founder and principal of www.HighlyExalted.org. I am currently based in Henderson, Kentucky, where I seek to bring honor to the name of Jesus Christ in all that I do. I have the honor of serving as Pastor at Cash Creek Baptist Church in Henderson.
I have an enthusiastic drive for missions and seeing churches become missional in their very existence (not just, missions minded). In addition I long to equip believers with the tools and resources necessary to fulfill their missional purpose in Christ (Acts 1:8) and ultimately bring glory to the name of Christ.
My time is spent in study at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism where I am working toward the requirements for a Master’s of Divinity.
Testimony
I was the first-born child of Lowell and Jeanne Clark of Evansville, Indiana in the spring of 1982. I was one of the blessed. In the year I was born more than 1.57 million babies were legally aborted in the United States. I was one of the fortunate ones. This is where my testimony begins; it begins with a couple who did not know me or know what I looked like, yet they loved me and gave me life. I was reborn in the summer of 1993. I was given a new life – an abundant life – a life I did not know I needed. God, through His gracious and sovereign purposes, pursued my heart until I could resist no more. I surrendered my will to His and became what the Bible phrases as “born again.” My first birth was one that gave me the life of this sin-laden world. My second birth was one that gave me an eternal life and consequently an eternal purpose – to glorify the instrument of my second birth, the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God.
Between the time I was born into the world and the time I was born again, I realized in that brief span of 11 years that I have nothing good to offer to anyone. I was not worthy of all my earthly blessings, and I certainly did nothing greater or deserved any better than my 1.57 million peers who perished in 1982. Yet, God pursued me. He loved me. My parents took me to the house of God where I listened and learned. My grandparents were instrumental in that mindset as well. But nothing my parents or grandparents could do would be able to remedy the fact that I brought nothing to the table for God. I was a rebel at war with God and my rebellion warranted death.
Then, I met Jesus.
Jesus took on the death I deserved so that I would not have to die or be at war with God anymore. As God continued to seek after my heart, it became apparent that my toil and resistance was futile. He loved me enough to pay the ultimate price of death (even death on a cross) and to give me a restored relationship with Him. He loved me so that I could have right standing before God. He bled for me and now when God sees me, He sees a blood drenched vessel that is not reflective of something disgusting or unclean, but symbolic of what Christ has done. His shed blood washed my life clean and now when God looks upon me, He sees His Son. I am no longer separated from my Father but I have been given a new life – born again with the same flesh, but as a new creation in Christ. However, Christ did not stay dead – the power of the love of our Heavenly Father physically resurrected Jesus from a borrowed tomb in order that He might prepare a new home for me when my worldly body expires. For it is by Him that I now live and seek to worship and glorify the name of Jesus amongst every nation, tribe and tongue. To God be the glory, great things He has done!
