What holds you back from pouring your very best into the most menial and ordinary acts?

In this very first episode of Wake-Up Call Conversations, J. D. Walt speaks with Andrew Forrest, the senior pastor at Asbury Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The discussion centers around Andrew's new book, "Love Goes First," which explores the concept of reaching out to others in an age of anxiety and division. Andrew shares personal stories and insights on how love can be a proactive force, emphasizing the importance of moving towards others with love, even when faced with differences or hostility. The conversation delves into themes of reconciliation, the role of the church in today's society, and the transformative power of love in bridging divides.

To be the seed means to surrender your life to Jesus and all the glorious purposes for which God made you in the first place. 

Our biggest problem is not sin; it’s our broken ability to trust.

I find the more I actually expect to hear from Jesus, the more I hear from him.

Every broken place in every broken life holds the possibility for the glorious works of God to be put on display.

The gospel does not do away with justice and judgment; rather, it crushes condemnation.

When Jesus comes into your life he becomes the endless source of eternal life that actually springs up from within you and then flows out of you to others. 

We want Jesus to help us more than we want Jesus to have us.

Some of the sickest, most disabled, most devastatingly handicapped people I have ever known are some of the deepest wells of living water I have ever seen. 

In the eyes of God, there are no deplorables, only wayward sons and daughters.

Why do we choose to be admired at the expense of being known?

What about your own notion of abundance must diminish in order for you to begin to grasp the abundance Jesus offers?

God is Jesus.

He has come to walk us home. 

The Bible is clear: God never intended his people to have a king. He would be their King.

Jesus didn't run away from pain. He ran into peace.

But the minute money becomes about God through faith we are practically delivered from the idolatry of money into the mind-blowing economy of Jesus.

We threw the only Son of God out of his own vineyard and we killed him. And guess what? He's given us a second chance.

Be careful how you read because it will determine how you lead and, yes, how you seed.