Interviews

Tanita Maddox: Showing Up for Gen Z

There are just so many things that are compelling about the triune God and the way that triune God has enacted redemption for us and continues to sanctify us after we follow him. We just have to pull the contextualization out for our young people so they can see it on their terms.

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.

Hugh Halter: How Do We Lead People to Live on Mission?

"The goal is not incarnational people, but incarnational communities. Eventually that leads to an incarnational church."

Matt Chandler: Why Church Planting Matters to Me

"Church planting is the way God has spread the fame of his name and the glory of the gospel."

Wilfredo “Choco” De Jesús: Do the Numbers Really Matter?

"While we don’t get to determine the talents which God has given us, we do choose how we leverage them for the kingdom."

Judah Smith: The Love of Two Fathers

"I was 11 and had this profound sense in my soul that God said, 'You are going to be a speaker to your generation.'"

David Fitch: On the Missional Frontier

"The engagement with our local neighborhoods, villages, towns is harder and harder the bigger and bigger you get."

Shane Farmer: An Irrevocable Call

"Part of what drives me to this day is Christ called me into ministry. I ran, but he called me back, and he did not revoke his call."

Matt Chandler: A Church Planter’s Heart

Matt Chandler: "When it’s my turn to go home to glory, I’d much rather leave behind hundreds and hundreds of gospel-rich churches than just one big church where I preached."

Charles Jenkins: Ministry and the Arts

The senior pastor of an iconic, historic, multiethnic and multigenerational church, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago