J.T. ENGLISH | Participating in God's Story (Ep. 783)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome J.T. English to the show. He is a pastor, professor, podcaster, and author. He has a new book out called “Remember and Rehearse: An Invitation to Participate in God’s Story”. He is also the co-host of the “Knowing Faith” podcast and the co-founder of “Training the Church”, a ministry focused on assisting ministry leaders develop a proven and sustainable discipleship framework for their context. In this interview, we discuss what drew him to vocational ministry, what so many churches get wrong about discipleship of new believers, why we should try to live IN the Bible (not just read it), the importance of understanding the story of the Bible as opposed to just the stories of the Bible, how pragmatism and politicalism distract us from God, what he would say to critics of the “let the Bible interpret the Bible” philosophy, the tension between God’s sovereignty and man’s free will, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is undaunted, a man's podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
0:25.7	Let's get into it.
0:26.9	All right, guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today.
0:28.7	His name is J.T. English.
0:30.0	He's a pastor, professor, podcaster, and author.
0:32.7	He has a new book out now called Remember and Rehears, an invitation to participate in God's story. He's also the co-host of
0:39.3	the Knowing Faith podcast. He is the co-founder of the training, the church ministry, which is there to
0:45.3	basically help ministry leaders develop proven discipleship frameworks and strategies in their local
0:49.8	context. So, excuse me, from the beginning, I hate that we didn't have as much time with JT as we
0:56.2	normally do with other guests. So just the way the cookie crumbled this morning, wife woke up
1:00.7	very, very, very, very sick. So I had to, you know, take the boys of school. So I had to kind of push
1:04.8	his a little bit. And then I had another thing right after him. And so we didn't get to do another, you know, full hour or anything beyond that, but I'm sure
1:10.8	we'll have him back on. But in this particular podcast, we start out by talking about, okay, how do you
1:15.0	become a Christian, how did he become a professional Christian? But then we got onto a very interesting
1:19.2	discussion about discipleship, because his story and my story about how we came to faith and our
1:24.1	families of origin and things like that are fairly similar. And so we talked about
1:27.7	what is the church missing when it comes to discipleship? Why are there so many, especially young men,
1:32.6	just out there rudderless, just basically go in whichever way the tide takes them. So a very
1:37.3	interesting discussion about that. Then we get into the book, remember and rehearse about how
1:41.5	there's a story that we're all living in, right? And there are a lot of
1:46.3	people that can tell you Bible stories, but they can't tell you the story of the Bible. And that's
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