[ep 93] Micah Fries serves as Senior Pastor of Brainerd Baptist Church. Prior to serving at Brainerd, he served at LifeWay Christian Resources. He has also served as a Senior Pastor in Missouri and an international church planter in Burkina Faso, West Africa. He holds a Master of Divinity and the Bachelor of Arts in Theology. Micah is currently a Ph.D. student, studying North American Missiology. Micah is married to Tracy and they have two daughters, Grace and Kessed, and a son, Haddon.
Micah is the author of a commentary on Haggai and Zephaniah in the Christ-Centered Commentary Series. Micah, along with Dr. Keith Whitfield, also contributed to & co-edited Islam and North America, a book on reaching North American Muslims with the gospel, for B&H Academic. Most recently, he authored Leveling the Church with Jeremy Maxfield, which teaches pastors how to manage expectations, lead well, and pastor biblically. Micah is a Guest Lecturer in the Doctoral program at Anderson University.
In our modern church, pastors have become the end all be all of ministry. Pastors have become professionals who do all the ministry. When pastors are the only ones doing ministry then every other job does not matter the same. In this episode we talk about the factors that have made church function this way. We also talk about how the church can change that culture. All of this fits so nicely into A Theology of Hustle and how we want to value the role all people play in God’s kingdom. This is an episode where we get to delve more into the ‘why’ behind the podcast. I think you are going to get a lot out of hearing from Micah Fries.
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Leveling the Church – https://www.moodypublishers.com/books/current-issues/leveling-the-church/
Micah Fires Twitter – https://twitter.com/micahfries
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David Brainerd – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brainerd
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