E226 John Bevere | The Debrief Podcast

The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown

Sandals Church

Deconstruction, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Culture, Faith, Christianity

5 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week we have friend of show, Pastor John Bevere! Learn how Pastor Matt & Pastor John first met, how they became friends, what it takes to become an author, and how to remain faithful.

John Bevere is a minister known for his bold, uncompromising approach to God’s Word. He is also an international bestselling author who has written more than 20 books that have, collectively, sold millions of copies and been translated into over 130 languages. Along with his wife, Lisa, John is the co-founder of Messenger International, a ministry committed to revolutionizing global discipleship. Driven by a passion to develop uncompromising followers of Christ, Messenger has given over 60 million translated resources to leaders across the globe. To extend these efforts, the MessengerX app was developed, providing digital discipleship resources at no cost to users in more than 120 languages. MessengerX currently has users in over 20,000 cities and over 235 nations. When John is home in Franklin, Tennessee, you’ll find him loving on his g-babies, playing pickleball, or trying to convince Lisa to take up golf.

Learn more about John Bevere and his book, 'The Awe of God' here !

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0:00.0	Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matt Brown.
0:07.0	The podcast where pastor and author Matt Brown debriefs your questions about Christianity
0:11.7	and current issues shaping our culture.
0:14.2	Thank you for listening and enjoy the show.
0:27.4	Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Deep Brief, and I have my buddy, John Bevere, here today. Thank you, John, for being here.
0:31.8	Matt, it's great to be on with you. I'm honored. Oh, man, thank you so much. So I'm going to talk to... I just wonder how much I'm going to laugh on this program. Oh, man. You can be laughing. You and my wife are just a pair. Let me tell you.
0:38.4	Apparently, I'm licking the microphone to entertain you. Yeah, I can see that.
0:42.0	Fur in my mouth. So if anybody's not wanting. It's from your wife's sweater she was wearing yesterday.
0:47.3	Everybody doesn't understand that. But yeah, the sweater was dying, you know, as we speak. So how did y'all meet? Let me talk about this. So I met you before you met me.
0:55.8	So when I met you, I don't know if you remember this, but it's your wife's 60th birthday party.
0:59.4	And it was a surprise. I'm in your house. I've never met you. I've never met John. I'm in his house.
1:04.7	And hoping it's the right house as I pull up. And you show up and you say, hey guys, Lisa's pulling up right away. Thank you so much for coming.
1:12.7	And you said, Matt and Tammy Brown, whoever you are, can't wait to meet you. I did. And then you
1:18.4	ran into the garage. So it was great. So I was literally like a burglar in John's house. But we had a great
1:23.7	time and just a great visit and met so many great friends at that party. Well, you know, Matt and
1:29.2	Tammy and Lisa had become very, very close friends. And what it was, it was a surprise birthday party.
1:35.0	And it was her 60th right in the middle of COVID. Yeah. So I actually snuck Tammy's number off
1:41.8	my wife's phone, which I felt really weird doing, and texted her.
1:46.0	And she was like, we'll come, we'll come.
1:48.0	And I was so happy you guys did.
1:49.0	Yeah, I love it.
1:50.0	Man, I'm glad to be here.
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