On the latest Equipping You in Grace, Dave Jenkins and Chris Hutchinson discuss the importance of humility for the Christian life and ministry, along with his book Rediscovering Humility: Why the Way Up is Down (New Growth Press, 2018).

What you’ll hear in this episode

* How we can cultivate humility in our ministries and local churches.

* How Christians today can recover the biblical category of stewardship in the conversation on platform building.

* How Christians can learn to cultivate humility without abandoning their convictions and engage one another on secondary doctrinal matters in love.

* Dealing with challenging theological controversies in love and in private.

* How humility unlocks one of the great Christian mysteries of the Christian faith.

* How Christian leaders can help young people learn to cultivate humility in our local churches.

* Learning to fight for humility while engaging others on social media.

* Dealing with conflict in our local churches with the love of Christ.

* The local church and growing in humility.

* Relational maturity and growing in humility.

* The importance of faithful local church ministry.

* The legitimacy for ministry beginning in our homes and then in our local churches.

* Humility and spiritual growth.

* Learning to take heat out of secondary doctrinal matters so we can begin to have healthy Christian dialogue.

* The importance of asking questions in theological dialogue.

* Older people mentoring young people.

About the Guest

Christopher Hutchinson is Senior Pastor of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Blacksburg, Virginia, and a graduate of Duke University (A.B.), and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div). Prior to entering the ministry, Chris served in the U.S. Army, including a combat tour during Operation Desert Storm. Chris and his wife, Kirstan, have two grown daughters, one a collaborative pianist studying in Arizona, and the other an artist studying in South Carolina. This is his first published book.

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