New Churches Podcast | Season 2 | Episode 4

Challenges in the Planting Context

J.A. Medders, Vance Pitman, Trevin Wax & Joel Muddamalle

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Host Jeff Medders meets with Vance Pitman, Trevin Wax, and Joel Muddamalle to discuss the eternal impact of confronting culture with truth and love, as seen in Titus 1:10-2:1. Discover how you can grow as a public theologian and apologist in your community as you discern and address the differences between sound teaching and false teaching, wrong teaching, and different teaching.

Jeff Medders serves as the Director of Theology and Content for Send Network. He is also an author, a preacher, and a PhD student of biblical spirituality at Southern Seminary, studying Charles Spurgeon and the Song of Songs.

Vance Pitman is the President of Send Network and was the founding pastor of Hope Church Las Vegas. Vance is an author and speaker who seeks to inspire people to join in God’s mission of making disciples and multiplying churches.

Trevin Wax is the Vice President of Resources and Marketing at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Cedarville University. He is the author of multiple books, including The Thrill of Orthodoxy, The Multi-Directional Leader, Rethink Your Self, This Is Our Time, and Gospel-Centered Teaching.

Joel Muddamalle is the Director of Theology and Research for Proverbs 31 Ministries and is on the preaching team at Transformation Church. He earned his PhD in Theology with an emphasis on Paul’s household language in Ephesians as it relates to the Old Testament.

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Published on October 15, 2024

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J.A. Medders

General Editor New Churches

J. A. Medders (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the director of theology and content for Send Network, and the general editor for New Churches. He is the author of Gospel Formed, Humble Calvinism, and co-author of The Soul-Winning Church. You can follow Jeff on X, Instagram, and his newsletter.

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Vance Pitman

Vance Pitman is the Founder & President of Vance Pitman Ministries and National Mobilizer with the North American Mission Board. He is the founding pastor of Hope Church Las Vegas, which he led from a living-room gathering of 18 people in 2001 into a thriving, multi-ethnic church of more than 4,000 members representing over 54 languages twenty years later. Following his retirement from Hope, Vance served as President of Send Network, the largest church-planting organization in North America, where he helped accelerate the multiplication of churches across the continent. Today, he coaches pastors and church planters in leadership, church multiplication, and spiritual health while traveling as an ambassador for the North American Mission Board. Vance is the author of UNBURDENED and The Stressless Life.
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Trevin Wax

Vice President, Resources & Marketing NAMB

Trevin Wax is Vice President of Resources and Marketing at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Cedarville University. A former missionary to Romania, Trevin is a regular columnist at The Gospel Coalition and has contributed to The Washington Post, Religion News Service, World, and Christianity Today. He has taught courses on mission and ministry at Wheaton College and has lectured on Christianity and culture at Oxford University. He is a founding editor of The Gospel Project, has served as publisher for the Christian Standard Bible, and is the author of multiple books, including The Thrill of Orthodoxy, The Multi-Directional Leader, Rethink Your Self, This Is Our Time, and Gospel Centered Teaching. His podcast is Reconstructing Faith. He and his wife, Corina, have three children.

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Joel Muddamalle

Joel Muddamalle holds a Phd in theology and serves as the director of theology and research at Proverbs 31 Ministries. He is a co-host of the Therapy & Theology podcast with Lysa TerKeurst and licensed counselor Jim Cress. Joel serves on the preaching team at Transformation Church in Indian Land, SC, and is a frequent speaker for conferences and events. He just released his first book, “The Hidden Peace: Finding True Security, Strength, and Confidence Through Humility. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Joel and his wife enjoy a full house with their four children and two dogs. If he doesn’t have a theology book in hand, you can be sure he’s coaching one of his kids in a sport or doing his best to keep up his hoops game on the basketball court.
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