Ministry Minded: A Podcast by Step Up To Life · Step Up To Life

Weekend Wings & Witnesses: God’s Work in Norway

·1 hr 29 min·5 clips

The first Norway campaign reached almost 70% retention after two years.

The conversation opens with the guest's schooling at Asbury College, now Asbury University. From there, it moves into the years after graduation. Youth With A Mission comes into view quickly. The guest talks about evangelism campaigns and says the gospel was shared very well there. The interview stays relational and unhurried. It keeps circling back to family and ministry ties. Marriage enters the picture as the story widens. The hosts joke around the edges, but the subject stays serious. Norway becomes the center of gravity. The guest describes a movement there that touched almost every church in some way. That context leads into a discussion of revival language and expectation. The conversation compares that dynamic to how people react to the Lakeland movement. The guest is careful about the risks of making a place or a season into the flavor of the day. Wanting God to move is treated as legitimate. The problem is what happens when hopes rise and then get disappointed again and again. The episode suggests that repeated disappointment can wear people down. It can also lead them to reject wildly wrong doctrine in a healthy way. At the same time, it can make them hesitant to expect God to move in a biblical way. The final stretch turns to pushback against the gospel itself. It lands on a hard example from Norway, where repentance was taught as something for Jews only, and then closes by calling listeners to keep serving Jesus biblically.

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A candid ministry story about Norway, revival pressure, and doctrinal pushback.

It opens on the ordinary milestones that shape a calling: school at Asbury, Youth With A Mission, evangelism campaign work, marriage, and the move into Norway.

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If you want Asbury, YWAM, Norway, and a candid take on revival pressure, press play.

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