E278 | Church Planting with Luke Bryant
The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown
Sandals Church
4.9 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Debrief Podcast, Matthew Stephen Brown sits down with Luke Bryant to talk about church planting, leadership, and the unexpected path that led Luke from law enforcement into ministry.
They discuss the story behind Liverpool One Church, the challenges of planting a church in Europe, and the personal realities leaders face along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dabee podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown, where we take your real questions about faith, the Bible, and culture, and give you honest, practical advice you can trust. |
| 0:11.4 | We're glad you're here. Now, let's get into today's episode. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh my gosh, everybody, if you're in your car listening to this show, it's not the volume. We have an Englishman on the show today. Can you try to speak in an American accent? No, not really. I could try, but it would be terrible. But how do you... I'm from California, man. Yeah, there you go. Is that good? No, that was terrible. But English actors always |
| 0:39.4 | play Americans, and they do it so well. Yeah, it's because we speak better American than you. |
| 0:43.3 | Yes, I know. I know. Well, it's your language. You guys invented it. Yeah. So, hey, guys, |
| 0:47.5 | we are here on the debrief today. This is not Tammy. He is not nearly as beautiful. |
| 0:52.2 | It's not my wife, but he is my friend and super excited about you. |
| 0:57.3 | His name is Luke Bryant, pastors of church in Liverpool. |
| 1:01.0 | When did you plant one church? |
| 1:02.7 | What year was it? |
| 1:04.1 | So, 2010, actually, was when we planted. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'll kind of get into the story. |
| 1:10.6 | But thanks for having me on the podcast today. |
| 1:12.6 | Really appreciate you letting the English in your podcasting filming room. |
| 1:18.3 | Thank you for our language. |
| 1:21.2 | It was very gracious of you to allow me back into your country. |
| 1:24.1 | So I'm thankful for that. |
| 1:26.4 | So, yeah, 2010, Emma and I, my wife, we planted |
| 1:30.2 | Liverpool One Church. And truthfully, I know it's the kind of thing that everybody says, |
| 1:35.0 | you know, we didn't know what we were doing, we didn't have a clue. But truthfully, we did not know |
| 1:39.1 | what we were doing and we did not have a clue. So we planted it in our living room and there |
| 1:43.9 | was 12 of us, 10 of our friends, plus Emma and I. And things have just kind of moved forward from there. I think that, you know, we're not allowed to be called a church in the UK unless you're above 40 people. See, that's crazy to me, because you can literally call yourself a church if you're one person in America. You could have a hurt of cat. a hurt of cat. Yeah, I mean, you could call yourself that, but you wouldn't necessarily be able to legally |
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