David Allen Lutz

grew up. He was the third of five children, raised by Christian parents who loved

the Lord. He was married to his wife, Renee, for nearly 57 years. They have five

children, twelve grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Dave was a loving

husband, devoted father, and faithful slave of Christ Jesus.

He received Jesus as his Lord and Savior at a young age and was baptized at 12

years old. Here is a brief testimony of his life of following the Lord.

In his senior year at Wayne State University, Dave had a genuine turn to the

Lord. He was touched to pray and read the Bible every morning before school

and asked the Lord to make Himself real to him. He graduated in 1965 and two

years later, he married Renee, who he had met at a Christian camp in Michigan.

Desiring to serve the Lord, he enrolled in seminary and they moved to North

Carolina, where their sons David and Michael were born.

As a third year postgraduate, he once again found himself longing for a deeper

spiritual reality. Through his brother Howard, they heard about the Lord's

Recovery in Los Angeles and received the book, The Normal Christian Church Life.

Dave and Renee read this book together and received a clear vision of the

proper way to meet as Christians on the ground of oneness. In October of 1970,

he left seminary and they followed the Lord’s leading to move to Atlanta,

Georgia to meet with the brothers and sisters in the Lord's Recovery.

There, they were shepherded into the church-life living that they had been

seeking. They loved the ministry and meeting with the saints. In 1975, Dave

began to take on responsibility as an elder in the church in Atlanta. Their family

continued to grow with the additions of Joy, Rachel, and Greg. In 1993, he took a

trip to Russia, to visit the local churches being raised up in that country. During

this visit, he had the strong feeling that he should resign from his job and serve

the Lord with his full-time. Over the next 15 years, he traveled to many

countries sharing the ministry at conferences and training classes, visiting the

churches, and shepherding the saints.

In 2008, Dave was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. From that time, his

capacity to serve slowly diminished but his love for the Lord, the church, the

saints, and his steadfastness for the ministry never wavered. As an exhorting

father, he would often say “to give your life to the Lord is the best choice”. Then

he would add, “there is nothing else in this world worth giving ourselves to”. His

life was a pattern of one who stayed the course as a faithful servant, living a life

to the Lord, and for the fulfilment of God’s eternal purpose.

Family is holding private services.