The GenSend Podcast

The need for churches and Christians to be on the front lines of pursuing racial reconciliation has gripped us in powerful ways this year. Listen as Shane Pruitt and Dhati Lewis, Vice President of Send Network and lead pastor of Blueprint Church in Atlanta, talk about how the next generation can become true catalysts in promoting a gospel-centric racial reconciliation.

Evangelism is not just for the adults with spouses and young children. Students can and must share the gospel and make evangelism a second-nature part of their lives. Pastor Jordan Easley joins Shane Pruitt to share his insight on how Pastor Jordan’s congregation, First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Tennessee, is effectively equipping their students to fearlessly share the gospel and how that can happen for next gen students everywhere.

It’s common to think about students being prepared to enter into the secular workforce upon college graduation. But Scott Pace, Vice President of Undergrad Studies and Dean of Southeastern Seminary, discusses the difference between our universal call to the ministry of the gospel and a unique, specific and vocational one. He also shares what it takes to get next gen students thinking about entering into careers in ministry after college.

Often, the topic of discipleship gets lost in the conversations about evangelism—that initial sharing of the gospel with someone who doesn’t know Jesus. Robby Gallaty, Senior Pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, joins Shane to make sure churches and next gen pastors and leaders aren’t missing out on the importance of discipling students, too.

Shane Pruitt calls Richard Ross a “next gen ministry legend.” As professor of student ministers at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and author of many books about reaching students effectively with the gospel, he has been around next gen ministry for a while. But he still has his finger on the pulse of the future. In this episode, he shares with Shane why he believes this generation is poised to lead the church into its next great awakening.

Peter Yanes is the executive director of Asian Relations and Mobilization with the Southern Baptist Conventions’ executive committee. In this episode, he joins Shane Pruitt to talk about how great a need there is for the gospel to be shared among more than 22 million Asian Americans living in the United States.

Perhaps one of the greatest disciplines the next generation can learn is the discipline of how to defend the Christian faith. The big, fancy word for this is “apologetics.” And Lee Strobel, an atheist-turned-Christian and now one of the most well-known Christian apologists around, is well equipped to share tips on how to help students learn to defend their faith in a cultural climate where attacks on Christianity seem to not just be tolerated—they’re encouraged.

Perhaps one of the most hot-button conversations across the landscape of next gen ministry is reaching Gen Z specifically with the gospel. Scott Dawson is the founder of the Strength to Stand Student Conference, and in this episode, he chats with Shane Pruitt about the necessity of building relationships with this generation in order to earn the right to be heard as you share the gospel.

More than any generation, Gen Z is hungry for purpose. They want to be part of a movement, and they want to see change in the world. What greater movement is there than the mission of sharing Jesus and advancing the kingdom, one person at a time. On this episode, Shane Pruitt interviews Kevin Flattmann, student pastor of Cyprus Baptist Church in the Shreveport-Bossier area of Louisiana, about how they’ve used the Who’s Your One initiative in their student ministry.

For more resources about sharing the gospel visit whosyourone.com, and don’t forget to put your one on the prayer map.

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Gen Z is the first generation in history to live a large portion of their lives online. There’s a mission field online now like there has never been before. In this episode, Shane Pruitt interviews Matt Brown—evangelist, author and founder of “Think Eternally”—about the opportunities, dangers and benefits of social media and digital missions.

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