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.

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

Erwin McManus: The Soul as Art

"When I became a person of faith, to be perfectly frank, all the models for discipleship were suffocating to me."

Hugh Halter: On Mission and Beyond

Hugh Halter: "The goal is not that you have incarnational people, but incarnational communities."

Samuel Rodriguez: The Message and the March

“How can we be happy that we have a sanctuary that seats 5,000, when 10 minutes away there are people in poverty?”

Glen Peterson: Immigration and the Church

Glen Peterson: “Guiding immigrants through the logistics of the immigration process is a very profound way churches can help."

James D. Gailliard: A New Trajectory

"When ministry changes the direction and the trajectory of an individual's or a family's life, then it is successful."