Interviews

Collin Outerbridge: Building a Multicultural, Multigenerational Church

There's something about a unifying vision that is greater than our preferences, that is focused on serving our community, that I think has led to a strong sense of connectivity that's allowed our church to grow and to impact people right here where we live.

Dave Ferguson: Multiplying Leaders

Every leader needs to have an apprentice. Even the lead pastor, as you're thinking about what's next, you need to have an apprentice so you can put that person in that role and you can commission them to go.

Nicole Martin: A Different Kind of Leadership

When I go to a great restaurant and it’s really good, no one ever has to tell me, “Could you let other people know?” I cannot wait to tell other people, first of all, that I've been, and second of all, how good the food is. I think we have lived our Christian lives on the periphery of God's grace and goodness and favor for so long that we don't know how good the food is for ourselves.

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.”

Krish Kandiah: A Faithful Enigma—Part 1

"Preaching and proclamation cannot be separated from lived-out mission, especially in a ‘post-truth’ world.”

Krish Kandiah: A Faithful Enigma—Part 2

"God is so transcendent. Rather than being fearful of that, or worried, we should turn to face it, look directly at it in Scripture.”

J.R. Briggs: Culture and Discipleship

"Wisdom without courage is riskless. Courage without wisdom is reckless. But wisdom and courage together is priceless."

Tom Doyle: Culture and Discipleship

"Inspiring and training believers to share their faith is one of the biggest challenges we have in the Western church."