Kevin is the lead pastor and an elder at the Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, Texas. In partnership with founding and preaching pastor Matt Carter, he has seen God grow the Austin Stone from a small gathering of young people to a city-loving church of over 7000. Kevin’s passion is to equip and mobilize Christ-exalting leaders in the home, church, city and globe. He has received a Master’s of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a D.Min in Leadership from Southern Seminary. He is the joyful husband of Leslie and father to three beautiful girls, Ellie, Halle and Ivey.
A redemptive culture is not going to look different because it looks remarkably like the leader. It's going to look different because it looks remarkably like Jesus.
Systems, structures and pipelines that produce leaders are many times anything other than redemptive. Find out why it is imperative for leadership systems to be redemptive.
Redemptive leadership really bears in mind that those that we're leading are made in the image of God. This has really profound implications on the way that we lead. Find out how and why.
Death is not a buzzkill. Death is a tool that makes us holy. And it makes us live with purpose, so that the end of our life, we don't sit there and say, "Why, oh God, did I walk like a phantom?"
It doesn't matter what level of leadership you are in, too often we use those around for ministry rather than invest in those around us for ministry. Are your people used for ministry or invested for ministry?
