Pastor of @SummitRDU. Husband to Veronica, dad of Kharis, Allie, Ryah and Adon. @NAMB_SBC National Ambassador. 63rd President of the SBC. Rom 1:16
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Joined June 2009
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Currently standing in line for the obligatory half hour to get donuts at the North Carolina State Fair. NC State Fair is something like a mix between Paradise and the seventh Circle of hell. All at the same time. I think North Carolina is the only place where eating 12 donuts during a 5-mile run is a celebrated annual event.
One movement in two pictures.
All the staff of over 100 churches worshiping and being equipped together. This room is where we start the funnel of our future pastors.
The second picture is a tent of 12 new planters going out this year pitching to our existing pastors. Iron sharpening iron.
A movement needs a funnel of leaders and a mechanism to plant the ones God calls.
We are doing both in The Collaborative Movement with @SummitCollab and @mercyhillnc
16 new Collab plants this year in NYC, Montana, Asheville, Nashville, Tampa, Capetown (South Africa) and several more. Maybe most encouraging, all have come through our development pipeline, none recruited from outside!
Day 2 of @SummitCollab conference: @corbinhobbs coming out hot: “We come this morning. to our 3rd value, the testy one: growth. Not everyone appreciates it. Some are always skeptical of it and discourage it. But it’s Jesus’ plan for his church. To reach one more. It’s a combination of ambition, humility and expectation. Leave out any one of these and it’s become ungodly.”
Deeply encouraging exposition on Psalm 67: “It’s time to dream again.”
The Collab Conference is a bi-annual gathering of staff from Collab Movement plants and a handful of partner churches.
Got to share this morning at the @SummitCollab Conference about something I need to hear as much today as ever: We never outgrow our need for the gospel.
It’s easy to become so focused on what we’re doing FOR Jesus that we lose sight of what he’s done for us.
Grateful to gather with 1,100+ team members from our 100+ Collab churches, united around the gospel that saves us, sustains us, and shapes this multiplying movement.
Don’t know much about this church or movement, but this is incredible. Hearing stories about how God is moving all over Europe. Praise God and join him!
550 baptisms at a single event could be a record in Britain, with perhaps even larger numbers than are reflected in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, which records baptisms in the North of England in the early seventh century. As I do not have personal knowledge of this event, I will not seek to evaluate it from a distance.
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In September 2026, at a private meeting of TGC Council members, @RevKevDeYoung gave a presentation on responding to Christian nationalism.
DeYoung offers 15 answers someone might give when asked what they mean by identifying as a Christian nationalist.
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I enjoyed joining my friends at @LifeTodayTV and talking about living quietly in a world that is often hostile. lifetoday.org/episode/witnes…
Incredible morning worshipping with our @SummitCollab church, Garden City, here in a huge Southeast Asian global city. Celebrated baptisms of two former atheists and got to see several @summitrdu members thriving over here.
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Amen to that, Ken!
I hope that @AndrewTWalker is right, and that the conversation about Christian Nationalism has run its course. It certainly has done enough damage.
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Excellent article from my friend @AndrewTWalker and great addition to the conversation on Christian Nationalism.
Really helpful:
“To the New York Times, I’m a Christian nationalist. By my friend Paul Miller’s definition, I might be. By author Stephen Wolfe’s definition, I am most certainly not.”
“Perhaps if you read about it enough, post on social media enough, or attend a conference around it, you can declare it into existence as Michael Scott did, without due consideration of the complexities of statecraft or the ugly histories associated with church-state establishments.”
When Christian nationalists criticize views like mine for supposedly offering theological justifications for liberal democracy, then Christian nationalism fares no better, for it is quietly beholden to the state and political conditions for its own legitimacy. In that form, Christian nationalism is often a form of Christian Hegelianism, wherein the operations of the state drive history—and the Kingdom of God—forward. Making the legitimacy of one’s political theology dependent on the state’s privileging it evinces a structural weakness in the program itself. The idea that the Kingdom of Christ requires formal dependence on, and enactment through, the state insults the efficacy of the blood of Christ. wng.org/opinions/michael-sco…
Giving the government religious power doesn’t guarantee a Christian government. It only guarantees a more powerful government. thegospelcoalition.org/artic…
I think the greatest revivals in America are ahead of us… and the government won’t have any part of it except staying out of the way.
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