Christian community is a nonnegotiable essential for spiritual maturity. If you want to become like Jesus, you must learn to open up your life. Tragically, many followers of Jesus get burned and hurt through Christian community. What do we do? How can we do it differently? Listen to this episode of the Devoted Life Podcast as we dig in and explore this important topic.

Justin Kendrick is the Lead Pastor of Vox Church, which he founded in 2011 with a group of friends on the doorstep of Yale University. Since then, the church has grown to multiple locations across New England with the dream of seeing the least-churched region of the U.S. become the most spiritually vibrant place on earth. Justin is the author of the USA Today bestseller How to Quiet a Hurricane, as well as Bury Your Ordinary and The Sacred Us (David C Cook). In addition to hosting Justin Kendrick: The Devoted Life Podcast, he continues to create sermon material, small group studies, and video content weekly through Vox Church. Justin and his wife, Chrisy, live with their four children in the New Haven area. To learn more about Justin, visit JustinKendrick.com.