Living Out Your Holy Ambition, with Jennie Allen

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What does it mean to have a ‘Holy Ambition’? I mean what does that look like in everyday life? In this special edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram, Chip sits down with best-selling author, and speaker – Jennie Allen. She’ll share how Chip’s book Holy Ambition changed her life and helped jump-start her own ministry, that impacts countless lives.

Introduction to Holy Ambition: Chip and Jennie discuss how God brings heart-placed dreams to reality.

Heart Dislocation & Strategic Action:

Jennie's heart was "haunted" by spiritual bondage in women, fueling her evangelistic passion.

The Cost of Obedience:

IF:Gathering launch was met with personal and family hardship—a "dumpster fire" for five years.
God used this pain to purify her motives and deepen her faith, protecting her from spiritual corruption.
Emphasizes that pain is essential for profound spiritual growth and broad impact.

True Holy Ambition:

It's about obedience to God's unique calling, not seeking fame or platform.
IF:Gathering's core mission: building tools and experiences to make disciples who make disciples through local churches.

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About Jennie Allen: Jennie Allen is the founder and visionary behind IF: Gathering and she is the author of several books and study guides, including Restless, Anything, and Nothing to Prove. She is a passionate leader following God’s call on her life to catalyze a generation of women to live what they believe. Jennie has a master’s in Biblical studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Zac and their four children.

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0:00.0	You've heard me say over and over that God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
0:09.1	Years ago, I wrote a book called Holy Ambition, and a young woman believed that that could actually be her.
0:17.0	We're going to hear from Jenny Allen today and learn how the if gathering, impacting millions of women around the world, came to be.
0:30.6	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:34.7	We are an international discipleship ministry devoted to helping Christians worldwide live out
0:40.0	their faith for the glory of God and the benefit of all people.
0:44.0	Thanks for being with us, as we have a special treat for you.
0:46.8	In just a minute, we'll revisit Chip's insightful interview with author and speaker Jenny
0:51.0	Allen.
0:52.0	Now, you may recognize her name from her popular if-gathering events
0:55.6	attended by tens of thousands of women worldwide every year. Today, you'll hear her story,
1:01.2	specifically about a significant season of her life that launched her into ministry. So without
1:06.0	further delay, here's Chip to introduce his guest. Well, welcome, Jenny Allen here, a special time that I get to interview you.
1:15.6	And we have something in common in that almost 20 years ago, I wrote a book called The Holy Ambition.
1:23.4	And actually, before I wrote that book, your husband told me I think it was on like those
1:29.1	cassettes or something like that, you know, a million years ago. And, you know, part of our journey
1:36.7	is kind of going back and hearing, you know, holy ambition is how God takes dreams that he puts
1:42.4	in our heart and that process of turning him into reality.
1:46.3	So I would just, when did you first hear about holy ambition and maybe what kind of impact
1:50.9	did it have on your life? So I look back. I'm going to back up just a little bit so that you
1:56.6	hear the context of when I found holy ambition and what it did for me. I look back at my life and I was a
2:02.7	good church girl. I pretty much obeyed my parents. I only tested that, you know, so far and largely was
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