Joel Rogers is the director of youth services for the Salvation Army in Cleveland, Tennessee as well as the founder of Inman Coffee House. Today, we are on location at Inman Coffee to talk about taking your faith journey one step at a time, trusting God when it doesn’t seem to make sense, and doing ministry outside of the box.

0:00 - Introduction
0:56 - The beginning of Joel’s faith journey
5:18 - How to handle pornography addiction
9:51 - Joel receives his calling to ministry in college
16:49 - From being a dorm resident director to founding Inman Coffee House
30:47 - Coffee as a ministry, from seed to cup
39:45 - Could you do the same kind of ministry with something other than coffee?
41:49 - Trusting God with consequences as an answer to rationalizations
56:02 - What Joel teaches his students and what his students have done 
1:04:27 - The history of the Salvation Army
1:06:25 - The story of “Mama” and her ministry in a strip club
1:08:14 - How to reach the lost without getting sucked into a sinful lifestyle
1:16:08 - Music at Inman Coffee
1:22:00 - What the Salvation Army does
1:29:20 - How to get involved with the Salvation Army
1:31:20 - Joel talks about the LGBTQ controversy surrounding Salvation Army
1:35:21 - Closing comments

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