Interviews

Megan Fate Marshman: Everyday Grace

While influence tends to want to go upwards and grow to the right, I am fighting to go down to the left, and it takes a lot of intentionality.

Nirup Alphonse: It Starts With Hospitality

The point of hospitality is not to entertain; it is to tell a better story and invite people into the story of God. That's what people need. That's what they're longing for. They want to be a part of that story. And that story is transforming. That story is eternal. That story is enduring. That story is faithful.

Gene Appel: Do Less Ministry; Reach More People

None of the programs at our church were bad in and of themselves. The volume of it just prevented us from being focused on building relationships with those who are far from God. So, we had to do less ministry to reach more people. It sounds funny, but people had to be trained in how to do life with nonbelievers or people spiritually disinterested.

Dave Ferguson: Making Heroes

“If you want to leverage your life for impact, it will be by being that hero-maker—the person who raises and empowers others."

Dave Ferguson: An Unprecedented Opportunity

“I would love for our definition of success to be determined not just by size, but by multiplication.”

Peyton Jones: The Lost Art of Mission—Part 1

“The church has neutered itself by trying to do ministry behind four walls. The lost art is doing what the apostles and Jesus did.”

Peyton Jones: The Lost Art of Mission—Part 2

"What they want is what the church isn’t offering: mission. If we will lead the way, they will follow."

Kay Warren: Sacred Privilege, Crucial Partnership—Part 1

“The best thing pastors can do is to get off the pedestal so their family can get off it as well.”

Kay Warren: Sacred Privilege, Crucial Partnership—Part 2

"Pastors’ wives wish their husbands understood how painful it is when pastors treat the church as their mistress."

Kyle Idleman: Grace Is Greater—Part 1

“Grace often gets put on the opposite side of sanctification, but that’s not biblically true. In Scripture it’s all about grace.”

Kyle Idleman: Grace Is Greater—Part 2

“In the church we want grace to be the motivation for our godliness, to be what inspires how we treat other people.”