Phil Vischer

When Big Idea, the company that brought us VeggieTales, went bankrupt in 2003, many wondered if Bob the Tomato and Larry Cucumber would survive the fallout. They did when a New York-based media company acquired Big Idea and its debts, but VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer was forced to give up ownership of his beloved ministry. In his new book, Me, Myself & Bob (Nelson), Vischer chronicles his rise and fall and redemption.

You still provide voices and stories for VeggieTales, but you no longer run the company. How are you doing today?

Vischer: I'm in a good place. God showed me a lot of things. I learned a ton about myself. I learned a ton about God and how I was misplacing some of my ambition, even though I was trying to serve God. But He loves me so much that He was willing to let that all fall away. I've had to just let it all go, so that I could focus on Him alone.

You've been able to recognize God's hand in your troubles.

Vischer: There was a specific fork in the road where I made some decisions that made it almost inevitable that I would fail. It's sad, but I was really vain. But God has used even that. I've learned firsthand that every mistake you make, God can redeem.

I've been sharing my testimony at different places, and I've had people come up to me and say, "Has it ever occurred to you that God may do more with your failure than with your success?" And I believe that. There have been 40-year-old guys who just lost businesses or experienced some other failure who have heard me tell my story, and they've come up to me afterward with tears in their eyes telling me that was exactly what they needed to hear. So God has used it.

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