Luke Edgerton: Mercy Road NW

Luke is young, confident and outspoken, “I believe frankly, Ralph, that the future of the church belongs to those who are willing to break up power handing it away and multiplying disciples at a much more efficient rate.”

He continues, “Come on dude…the more we can get this message out to younger leaders like me, who definitely had a calling has a calling, but was disillusioned by the one church in multiple locations model which gathers way much way too much power in one centralized group or even one centralized individual. We've seen how that's gone. There's very few cases of success for one church in multiple locations and many more examples of implosion and collapse because that one individual or that one board of directors had far too much power… it's really that simple. Let the states govern themselves. Let these church plants be led by unique apostolically gifted leaders, because that is the unique secret sauce of the priesthood of all believers.

He goes on to describe his relationship with Exponential, “Exponential was my Savior. You know…the whole world wanted to be a mega church, and we're trying to give away people and always odd man out. And I finally found a home when I met Todd Wilson and Bill Couchenour and Dave and all these guys and I'm so thankful for these people and I'll just do anything I can to try to support what's going on with Exponential.

He further described his path to multiplication at Exponential, “At first, I don't I don't get this. And then…I was like, Oh my gosh, I've gotten the cart before the horse. And I finally had language. And I finally had understanding that the one thing God called me to do which was to make disciples was the last thing I was doing. I was just managing the addition…I was growing big things but creating zero disciples.

You can listen to the interview to pick up on the rest of my conversation with Luke.

For more you can connect with him at mercyroadnw.com or [email protected].

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