The Church of God (Anderson, IN) is a worldwide movement with presence in over 90 countries. Natalie Royer serves as the Chief of Staff for this organization, responsible for resourcing its leaders, congregations, and ministries. The interview focuses on the C4 initiative she has helped to shape, coaching church leaders into how to come out and play in their communities, fulfilling their role as kingdom leaders.

For almost two decades, Melanie has served in South Carolina state government as a leader in educational research and policy. Her current position is Senior Advisor for Education in the Governor’s Office, where everyday she fields phone calls and emails from various constituencies while helping to formulate policy and initiatives to improve the education opportunities for her state’s children. Through her conversation with Reggie, we learn that she sees her role as a kingdom assignment and opportunity.

As director of Fuller Seminary’s Professional Doctoral Studies (including the DMin program), Julia has a unique perspective on the leadership needs and development opportunities of spiritual leaders. In this wide-ranging interview Reggie talks with Julia about the challenges of shifting training of ministers from a church-centric to a kingdom-centric approach.

Jeremy serves as a Senior Consultant with the Gallup Organization. In his role he connects with large corporations (like Fortune 1000 companies) to help them develop workplaces where workers report high engagement and satisfaction with their jobs and places of employment. You can hear more about this in the interview, plus how Jeremy views his role as a kingdom agent.

Faith leaders who want community access and engagement need look no further than the local school. In this interview, Reggie traces the remarkable story of SchoolConnect with its founder and executive director Tracey Beal. Learn how this initiative has grown from serving one school to touching half the schools in Arizona and into five other cities nationwide.

Tim Hallman’s unique role as Director of Christian Emphasis at the YMCA of Fort Wayne, Indiana gives him a city-wide perspective of kingdom sightings. This Y touches 1 out of 5 people in the community with its engagement through 14 locations. Tim is working to make sure that this position of community influence is turning into kingdom advancement.

In his role as the Executive Director of the Churches of God General Conference, Lance sets the tone and agenda of the hundreds of congregations in this world-wide movement. Reggie explores with Lance where he sees evidence of the kingdom of God breaking out and into our world. The conversation is chocked full of leadership insights.

The kingdom of God is a movement. It represents God’s commitment to our experiencing the life he intends for us. It impacts every sector of society and domain of human endeavor. All of us who are Jesus-followers are commissioned to lead in the kingdom movement, to live as viral kingdom agents where we live, play, work, go to school - wherever we hang out. This episode offers some practical advice for living up to this challenge and opportunity.

In this episode, we discuss some of the elements that make the kingdom saga compelling enough to change our lives. Reggie helps us understand that the kingdom of God is primarily a mission, not just a message. The discussion encourages us that the kingdom is unfolding just fine and that we are living in the biggest story in the universe.

Reggie contends that this shift of perspective is like unto the shift from a Ptolemaic universe (earth-centric) to a Copernican understanding (helio-centric). The center of gravity shifts; the points of reference undergo substantial revision. In this episode, Reggie details some signs of church-centric thinking, offers some kingdom correctives, then identifies the three shifts that are essential in bringing the church culture into alignment with God’s mission.