The Great Commission Crisis | Jennie Allen and Andy Byrd
The Jennie Allen Podcast
Jennie Allen
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🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this conversation, Andy Byrd challenges us to rethink what it means to follow Jesus and why reaching people with the gospel isn't an optional part of Christianity - it's at the very heart of it.
Andy shares stories of what God is doing among Gen Z around the world, why young people are responding to missions in unprecedented numbers, and how global movements like The Send are helping turn inspiration into action. Together, he and Jennie talk about revival, the unreached, the future of missions, and why they believe this generation could play a significant role in seeing the gospel reach every nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Only 17% of American churchgoers even know what the Great Commission is anymore. |
| 0:05.7 | So you've got to ask yourself two questions with that. |
| 0:07.7 | One, what are we talking about in the pulpits if the Great Commission is not at least somewhat regularly understood, taught, and referred to? |
| 0:16.8 | Number two is what do most believers in America think that the purpose and the mission of the |
| 0:21.8 | church is if it doesn't include the Great Commission? |
| 0:31.9 | Well, guys, Andy Bird, my friend, he is an unbelievable leader. |
| 0:36.7 | You're going to get to hear from today. We're going to talk about |
| 0:38.9 | what God has been doing on earth. He's seen some things. He has seen revival. He also is just |
| 0:47.2 | passionate to see the ends of the earth reached with the gospel. And so currently he leads a ministry |
| 0:53.9 | called Fire and Fragrance. And he also has |
| 0:57.2 | been a major leader behind this end and been in that world for a long time as well. And so, |
| 1:04.2 | Andy, let's dive in. First, tell everybody a little bit about your ministry today, Fire and Day. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, absolutely. So pumped to be on this together. And yeah, we launched Fire and Fragrance |
| 1:16.0 | about 18 years ago and as a ministry of Wyam. And that was fully focused on worship, |
| 1:24.3 | getting young people into a lifestyle of worship and prayer, like deep devotion to Jesus, |
| 1:29.0 | and then connecting that to reaching some of the least reached kind of hardest to reach places |
| 1:34.1 | around the world. And so we've been doing that for 18 years, been such a privilege, have sent |
| 1:40.3 | long-term communities and long-term missionaries all over the world with that kind of that |
| 1:46.4 | value system of deep devotion to Jesus on lifestyle, worship and prayer, tons of prayer in our |
| 1:51.8 | communities, and then whatever it takes to reach the least reach. So they're scattered around the |
| 1:57.2 | world and they're some of my heroes. And then it was just seven or eight years ago that we launched, in 2019, that we launched |
| 2:05.6 | the send with the goal of kind of impacting the body of Christ at large towards activation, |
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