The Messy Middle
The Jennie Allen Podcast
Jennie Allen
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Most of life isn’t a launch or a finish line. It’s the middle, mundane, conflicted, unglamorous, and that’s exactly where God grows our maturity, resilience, and trust.
Jennie names the “messy middle” we all live in: between starting and celebrating, between intention and fruit. Looking at scripture, parenting moments, and the behind-the-scenes of launching Gather25, she reframes the middle as holy ground. This is where perseverance forms character, trust replaces control, and faithfulness becomes the measure of a life with God.
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| 0:00.0 | I am guessing that many of you that are listening to me right now, you're in the messy middle. |
| 0:05.0 | I just want to say growing up, maturing is actually getting good at the middle part. |
| 0:10.8 | It's getting good at the mundane. |
| 0:13.4 | It's getting good at the conflict. |
| 0:16.0 | It's getting good at persevering through the parts where you want to quit. |
| 0:28.9 | Hey, fam, it's Chloe, back to tell you about something coming up so soon. |
| 0:35.8 | If one night, Friday night, February 27th from 6 to 10 p.m. Central |
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| 0:45.4 | And this year's going to be like insane, guys. Francis Chan, Jenny, of course, Jada Edwards, Matt Chandler, |
| 0:53.7 | Chris Kane might pop in and do what Chris |
| 0:55.8 | Kane does. Worship's going to be unreal. Again, going live Friday, February 27th from 6 to 10, |
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| 1:41.5 | reason why you wouldn't. |
| 1:51.7 | Okay, today we are about to talk about one of my least favorite things, but it is going to help you. So stick with me. We are going to talk about the messy middle. Most of life |
| 1:57.2 | does not exist in beginnings and endings. Most of life is lived in the messy middle |
| 2:05.3 | of circumstances, projects, goals. It's the hard middle. Nobody celebrates the middle. Nobody |
| 2:14.4 | talks about the middle. You usually see the end and the product and the book |
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