Matt Till is a lecturer of Christian Ministry and Communications at Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL, lead pastor of Restoration Church in the Chicago suburbs, and a regular contributor to Ephesiology, an online community and podcast dedicated to the study of the early Christian movement. Today, Matt shares with us the story of finding Christ at Promise Keepers with his dad, learning that working in ministry isn’t all it’s made out to be, and responding to his calling to plant a church. Matt also shares how he learned that vocation can be lived out in any line of work anywhere. His story reminds us that God always has a plan even when we think we’re directing the steps.
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Stories Matt shared:
- Growing up in a Methodist home in Chicagoland
Hearing the Holy Spirit for the first time at Promise Keepers in 1996 and receiving Christ with his dadBeing baby Christians with his whole familyBuilding community in college and how that shaped himStudying broadcast communicationWorking in Chicago televisionMoving to a megachurch in the area to use his giftsHow his disillusionment caused him to growThe vacation where God asked him to plant a churchGoing to seminary to become a pastorHow God sparked conversations about church plantingPlanting a church in the middle of megachurches fallingThe unexpected response to his vulnerabilityYou can be doing something of value for the Kingdom of God even outside the church.
We’ve been more consumed with getting people to believe the right things; that’s just tribalism at its best. Or its worst.
- Ephesiology’s the State of the Church in America episode
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