Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone Walking in Grace & Truth with Pastor JD Greear
Oct 28, 2025
JD Greear, theSenior Pastor of The Summit Church and former SBC president, passionately discusses the delicate balance of grace and truth in leading a church. He shares insights from his transition from law to pastoral work and emphasizes the importance of ordinary believers living out the gospel. Greear also reveals his church's ambitious vision for planting 1,000 churches and encourages young adults to find purpose in their vocations. With a focus on moral clarity, he navigates how to engage with culture without losing sight of biblical truth.
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From Indonesia Mission Plans To Pastoral Calling
- JD intended to return to missions in Southeast Asia after college but felt God called him to pastor a college town church.
- That pastorate became the platform he uses to send thousands into global missions.
Make Multiplication Your North Star
- Prioritize multiplication: raise and send leaders rather than only growing a single congregation.
- Celebrate sending capacity as the key metric of church health.
Multiplication Explains Historic Growth
- Early church growth relied on a DNA of multiplication more than institutions or tech.
- Recovering multiplication explains how small groups produced massive historical expansion.
