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Pastor Tony Romo

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Biography of Tony Romo

Pastor Tony Romo was born in San Antonio, Texas. His parents didn't get married until he was 2 years old and were divorced when he was about 6 or 7 years old, so he never really had a normal home life as he was growing up.

At the age of 9, Tony, while living in the projects, picked up his first bottle of beer, his first cigarette and his first joint (marijuana). He began his wicked living as a child and continued that life-style until he was 33 years old, when he finally trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and was gloriously delivered.

Tony's mom abandoned her first family to run off with Tony's dad, but that marriage didn't last long either. (Neither of Tony's parents were Christians although his mom did get saved later in life a few years before she passed away.) Tony didn't see his dad very often after the divorce. Whenever he did see him he would get excited hoping that perhaps his parents would somehow reconcile and build a "normal" home. It never happened.

Tony and his wife, Margot, met while in high school. They married in 1967. They've been married for 40 years now. They have three daughters, one son, three sons-in-laws and six grandchildren. Tony served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era and was a 3rd class petty officer when he was honorably discharged. Under the G.I. Bill, he completed training in topographical studies at Durham College in San Antonio.

Tony and Margot became Christians while living in Denver, Colorado. They moved there because of Tony's personal problems leading him to lose his job and causing financial problems. He was also indebted to drug dealers and bookies, and they were in hot pursuit. So Tony decided to leave Texas and move to Denver to start over. The only problem with that was that he took "him" with him. In other words, he was the problem, not Texas or any kind of environment he may have been in. In Colorado, the problems continued and actually got worse. Margot would bail him out of jail with their rent money on occasion. The problems continued.

One glorious morning though, some ladies from South Sheridan Baptist Church were visiting in the "projects" where the Romos were living. They came to their apartment and shared the gospel with Margot, and she accepted the Lord as her Savior that morning. She was baptized a few days later (Tony didn't attend) and she immediately had a burden for the drunken, sin-enslaved husband, she loved. She was determined to keep him before the Lord in prayer. She recalls going forward at every invitation after Pastor Ed Nelson's message, to ask for prayer for herself and for her wild husband. She was faithful in every sense of the word. She was being discipled by her spritual mom, the late Phylis Norwalk. Margot was hungry for God's Word and applied all she learned from Mrs. Norwalk, and the Lord was faithful to Margot.

After five years of faithful living and much prayers, the Lord finally brought Tony to a point of conviction that he had been rejecting for all those years, and he finally surrendered himself to the Lord. He was baptized the following Sunday at Arvada Baptist Church where Margot had become a member. Pastor Andy Linder became his first pastor. Tony then became a disciple and was being trained by Pastor Linder and another member, Bud Barnes. They patiently led Tony along with the biblical precepts that he readily accepted. He became a fervent soul winner, a Sunday School teacher, the church's first deacon and the spritual leader in his home that Margot had been praying for. It was at Arvada Baptist Church where Tony was grounded in the Truth by two faithful men and a group of praying members. It was at Arvada Baptist where Tony preached his first sermon (I Corinthians 13). Twenty-six months later, the Lord called Tony into the ministry. Although Tony had been involved in ministry already, the call was more specific. So they sold their house and packed their belongings and headed to Greenville, South Carolina, to prepare for the ministry.

While attending Bob Jones University (Bible major), Tony and his family were involved in the establishment of the first Hispanic Baptist Church in Greenville. As members of Faith Baptist church they accepted the call to establish that ministry that continues to this day. Tony also preached and counseled as a volunteer at the Greenville Rescue Mission several times a month for about 17 years. He knew that the only thing that could deliver these men and women from enslavement and sinful addictions was the power of God as they trusted Jesus Christ and submitted themselves to his Lordship. It's what delivered him. He also was involved in a park ministry, preaching to campers at an R.V. park on Paris Mountain State Park. He was also involved in a prison ministry.

Tony and Margot also attended Instituto Biblico de la Fe (Faith Bible Institute) where they studied Greek, Hermeneutics and Homiletics. Later Tony enrolled in extention classes on Pastoral Studies and Systematic Theology from Liberty University.

The Romos joined another church in Easley, South Carolina, where he was Sunday School teacher for the Renewed Hope class. It was a class for divorced people of 40 years and older. Tony led Sunday School and other weekday studies and preached on occasion.

In 1988, Tony passed the South Carolina Land Surveyors Exam and became a Professional Land Surveyor. The following year, they started their own land surveying business. They've been in business ever since. As a bi-vocational pastor his responsibilities, as a professional businessman and as a minister of the gospel (not to mention husband, dad and grand-dad), keep him extremely busy.

In 1996, he was called to pastor a church in Boerne, Texas. He closed down the business and they moved to Texas. There he led the church out of a rented building and bought a big church building on Interstate 10. He taught sound, fundamental biblical principles to those who would apply them. He started a jail ministry and a rest home ministry. He also became the Republican Party chaplain for that district. He was involved in politics as well as maintaining the ministry. He was officially ordained by that church into the gospel ministry in 1997. He also attended pastoral classes at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas.

In 1999, they moved back to Greenville and re-opened their land surveying business. In 2000, he founded South Pointe Baptist Church and is its present pastor. Realizing that Christians were ignorant about their role in cultural, political and ecclesiastical matters he established the Christian Worldview Class, where they address current issues from a Christian worldview. He also led the Institute on the Constitution in 2005. The 13-week class was a survey of our Constitution, its history, content and intent.

Shortly after the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center, Pastor Romo became frustrated with the Republican Party's neo-con philosophy and decided to leave the party. He and his wife became members of the Constitution Party. They supported the Constitution Party candidate, Michael Peroutka, for president in 2004. Pastor Romo is currently the chairman for the Anderson County Constitution Party and encourages Christians to be more engaged in local politics. He believes that as salt and light, we are obligated to engage our culture with a Christian worldview. He believes that we are preachers of righteousness and we should preach it wherever unrighteousness rears its ugly head.

In the spring of 2007, Pastor Romo and South Pointe Baptist Church hosted Pastor John Weaver for a five-day session covering American Christian history and Southern Christian history. He preached on States Rights, the Black Robed Regiment and other relevant issues from a biblical perspective.

In the Summer of 2007, with the blessing of his church and the help of his friend Gene Papke and Bob Dill, publisher of the Times Examiner newspaper, and the promotional expertise of Bob McLain from WORD-AM talk radio, Pastor Romo organized the Upcountry Freedom Conference. He invited Dr. Chuck Baldwin to be the keynote speaker of the three-night event. Additional speakers were Dr. Paul Dean Jr., Dr. Steven Yates, Pastor Mark Dibler, Roan Garcia-Quintana, Ted Adams, Ilona Blakeley, Aaron Bolinger, E. Ray Moore and Bob McLain.

Pastor Romo and South Pointe Baptist Church also celebrate Constitution Day Sunday. Believing that the Constitution of the United States ought to be honored as a fundamental founding document, Pastor Romo invites a speaker to come and share a message from a bibilical perspective related to our Constitution. In 2006, Art Fletcher (Spartanburg County chairman for the Constitution Party) was invited to speak. In 2007, Pastor Patrick Tyndall (South Carolina vice chairman for the Constitution Party) was the speaker.

Pastor Tony Romo has been a speaker for many different churches throughout the country. He also speaks at civic, patriot and political gatherings. He is available for any speaking engagement. All for the GLORY of GOD!

Pastor Tony Romo is a Christian Constitutionalist.

He is a Biblicist and doesn't identify himself with Calvinistic nor Arminian doctrine. He is neither Reformed nor Dispensational. Although he loves the King James Version, he is NOT KJV only. He believes in the fundamentals of the faith but is careful of some fundamentalists making doctrines of men into precepts of God. He stands against the seeker-sensitive philosophy because he believes that it is deceiving people into believing that they are Christians by simply making them a part of the outward fellowship. And avoiding the exposition of the Word of God, they have replaced it with feel-good, self-centered devotional rhetoric. Pastor Romo is constantly warning the believers about Open Theism, the Emergent Church and all the other New Age movements that seem to surface on a daily basis. He warns against a preoccupation and an over-emphasis on important but minor issues. Christians should obey the Word of God and not the traditions of men.

He is a Constitutionalist, believing that the Constitution of the United States is the law of the land. Any other law that is written that goes against the Constitution is NO law and should NOT be obeyed. He believes that the Constitution is to be obeyed by the government. It is to govern the government. It is what we the people have delegated to the government. No authority beyond what has been enumerated within the legally ratified Constitution is to be considered legitimate. In our system of government as intended by our founding fathers, we the people are Caesar. We are the ultimate authority as expressed in the Constitution. We the people have not given the President of the United States the power to suspend the Constitution. If he ever does suspend the Constitution, he does it in rebellion to the Constitution and should be immediately impeached and removed from office. Regardless of what reason he may give, he has no constitutional power to do it —not even for our security.

Although Pastor Romo is a member of the Constitution Party, his allegiance is to the Constitution not to the party. Although Pastor Romo is a member of a Baptist Church, his allegiance is to the Bible, not to the Baptists. Anything that goes contrary to the Constitution is unlawful and should not be obeyed. Anything that goes contrary to the Bible is unscriptural and should not be obeyed.

Pastor Romo, after being delivered from the power and penalty of sin, is amazed at the negligence and dereliction of the church in addressing sin. There are now more excuses as to why we can sin than there are reasons as to why we shouldn't sin.

By the grace of God, we can do the will of God. In the will of God, we can have the grace.

"Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin" ( James 4:17).

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Chuck Baldwin headlines Upcountry Freedom Conference in Greenville, South Carolina

John Weaver speaks at South Pointe Church