In this episode, Shane Pruitt brings on his own pastor, Josh Howerton of LakePointe Church in the Dallas, Texas area to chat about the nuances of leading Next Generation students into deciphering and living out their ministry callings.

Chip Dean is a global students pastor and campus pastor at Liberty Live Church in Newport News, Virginia. He’s also a husband and adoptive father. He joins Shane Pruitt to discuss how his church is using acts of service right on school campuses where students are to aggressively reach the Next Gen population. Chip and Shane also talk about what it means to mold students into leaders who reach other students.

Where does the Next Generation of women fit into the current and future state of the Church? How do we work to concentrate on shaping next gen women for viable ministry? Jennie Allen, the founder of the If Gathering, has dedicated her life to helping women find and live out their callings in the kingdom of God.

Jen Wilkin says the next generation is ready to be taken seriously and that it’s time to defeat the misconception that they don’t want to be serious about God or God’s Word. Jen is an author and Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas, and a member of The Village Church. In this episode, she chats with Shane Pruitt about the importance of teaching the Word of God to them in such a way that helps them have an accurate understanding of God’s identity.

Ronnie Floyd, long-time pastor, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee and noted author and speaker, joins Shane Pruitt to talk about the vast mission field of college students and teenagers, the importance of following through conversions with Believer’s Baptism and the reasons why this generation can and should reverse the 20-year decline of baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Super Bowl champion and 16-year NFL veteran Benjamin Watson joins Shane Pruitt to discuss what being pro-life means to the emerging generation in a time when being pro-life seems to be increasingly unpopular.

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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.