Episode 92- Jeff Vanderstelt–Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

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Welcome to the ninety-second episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave interviews Jeff Vanderstelt–Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life (Crossway, 2017).

What you’ll hear in this episode:

Jeff’s life, marriage, ministry, and upcoming ministry projects.
Jeff’s counsel to pastors and ministry leaders about ministry burnout.
The origins of gospel fluency.
What gospel fluency means.
How gospel fluency changed the way, Jeff explains evangelism.
How gospel fluency is changing the lives of the people in Jeff’s church.
Jeff’s process of preaching the gospel to himself and what drew him to this practice.
The importance of gospel fluency to local church membership.
How gospel fluency addresses spiritual apathy.
How being a good listener makes us even more effective gospel witnesses.
Some helpful tips for sharing our gospel story and making Jesus the hero instead of ourselves.
The first step someone should take in becoming gospel fluent.
How we guard against knowing gospel vocabulary but not the power of the gospel.

About the Guest:

As the visionary leader of the Soma Family of Churches and Saturate and the lead teaching pastor at Doxa Church in Bellevue, WA, Jeff Vanderstelt gets to spend his days doing what he loves – training disciples of Jesus to make more disciples of Jesus and equipping the Church in the gospel and missional living. Jeff is the author of “Saturate,” “Saturate Field Guide,” and “Gospel Fluency” (2017). He and Jayne, his wife of twenty-three years, have three children; Haylee, Caleb, and Maggie. Connect with Jeff at his website www.jeffvanderstelt.com or on twitter @JeffVanderstelt.

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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.

Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.

He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).

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When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.

Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.

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