Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I have on the show today my friend Grant

Skeldin Grant is a a leader among the next generation. He started the initiative network when he was 23 years old with the goal of developing young leaders into Christ loving city changing church investing

disciple making local missionaries Grant that's a mouthful but that really does capture your heart and I have just in the short time I've known Grant I've learned a lot so much about Gen Z Gen Z those who have been were born after the year 2000 is and Grant is 30 years old he's so he's a millennial so we talk a lot about the difference between millennials and Gen Z and just I learned a lot in this episode and every time I hang out with Grant I

just learn a ton about how to not just reach but as he says disciple the next generation of Christian leaders Grant is the author of the passion generation

what's the subtitle on this the seemingly reckless defiantly disruptive but far from hopeless millennials by Grant Skeldin published by zonder van and so grant currently is the next gen leader of q ideas a lot of you know about q ideas in fact when this podcast comes out I will either be at or getting ready to leave for the q conference out in Nashville

no it is not q and on okay people it is a q ideas the conference the cultural culture summit I think it's called in Nashville April 22nd and 23rd so anyway if you would like to support show you can go to patreon.com forward slash theology in a raw and support show for as little as five bucks a month and get access to premium content including once a month

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hello welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw I'm here with my friend Grant Skeldin Grant thanks much for being on the show for the first time

yeah man thank you for having us we're wearing the same thing bro you got the memo okay yeah yeah for those who are listening only we are this is also a video

we do this video and audio so there is a YouTube version of this conversation but grant once you give us a little introduction to who you are for people that don't know your name and then I really want to dive into this I mean just the really pertinent topic of understanding and

ministering to and coming alongside and learning from Jen Jen Z which I know it's the world you've been living in for a while but who who are you Grant yeah yeah my name is Grant Skeldin I am you know the

Skeldin name is South African name actually so my dad South African my mom is the youngest of 14 in this massive Mexican family and so I'm half

South African half Mexican dude from Dallas I've been in Dallas honestly my whole life until four months ago in the midst of

COVID some things started shaking up and I started feeling some clarity from God on stuff to where I kind of got to know

you through this transition even is about four or five months ago I got married I got I moved to Nashville and I moved to

Nashville because I just recently joined Q Ideas with Gabe and Rebecca Lions I have a history of speaking on behalf of younger generations especially more so the millennial generation but mostly two older generations to help them either

whether it's pastors that are just trying to reach the next generation parents that are trying to raise the next generation or sometimes a lot of times business leaders that are trying to better retain the next generation

so so many millennials were job hopping and then I wrote a book with Zondervin called the Passion Generation the key notes version is it's kind of a Trojan horse book that acts like it's a book to help you better reach the next generation but it's really just a book about how you should

disciple the next generation and how to practically do that it's a very practical book on discipling the next generation where instead of meeting with them one on one once a month or once a week it's more about including them in your life

it's I say it's a lot less about mentoring them and saying hey come and meet with me but it's more about discipleship where you say hey come and follow me and join my world so that was a book I wrote two years ago and then yeah and then our big thing I'm probably known for among young leaders but it's more private on the on the larger scale is I

stumbled into and found that I have like a gifting and even I'll say a calling to try to the best of my ability to unite I already say find first to find unite and accelerate some of the most diverse and dynamic young Christian leaders across the country

to reach probably the most lost generation we've ever seen and so I do a lot of retreats and sometimes international trips where I take very high caliber young Christian leaders who are let's say

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