Special Guest: Joby Martin | Episode 173

In this episode, the guys interview the founder and lead pastor of the Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the fastest growing churches in America. Joby Martin joins William Kane, Ben Crane, and Webb Simpson to talk about the gospel, disciple making, manhood, revival in North Florida, and how to stay humble when God is blessing everything around you.

Joby is the husband to Gretchen, father to JP and Reagan, author of a number of books including Stand Firm and Act Like Men, and host of a number of podcasts. One of Webb's favorite preachers of all time, and his son James's all time favorite preacher.

Topics covered:

- Travelers Championship recap and Scotty Scheffler breakdown

- Revival is happening in North Florida: we baptized 2,552 people on the beach in one day

- My longtime caddie Paul Tesori is a member of the Church of Eleven22 and says the church has impacted him in literally every area of his life

- What is the gospel? The gospel is simply what God did to save us

- Jesus came to live the perfect life, to die in our place. He didn't just die for us, he died instead of us

- What is a disciple? A disciple is somebody that takes their next step of obedience in following Jesus

- We don't have standards of Jesus, we have followers of Jesus

- The number one way to deepen your relationship with Jesus is get real serious about helping somebody else discover theirs

- A conduit of his grace, not a cul-de-sac of it

- Stand Firm and Act Like Men: the biggest challenges facing men in the 21st century

- An attack on gender is an attack on the character and nature of God

- The fundamental question of every man is, do I have what it takes?

- We baptized north of 5,000 people this year

- How Joby preps his sermons: God does not owe me a sermon and he gives me one every week

- What happened, so what, now what: the three questions every sermon answers

- How Joby came to faith at summer camp and was called into ministry at VCU

- Joby's dad: 30 years of prayer, saved at 67

- We don't follow Jesus because he makes life better. We follow Jesus because he is better than life

- How to stay humble: when a mosquito grabs onto a freight train, the mosquito does not feel bigger

- Rapid fire: favorite sport, dream foursome, favorite Bible verse (Romans 8:1), and more

- Bible Caddie is off for the month of July and back the first week of August

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