283: Loren Hicks and the Practice of Discipleship

Loren Hicks  is a pastor and the podcaster behind the 5 Minute Discipleship podcast. Today, Loren shares the lessons he’s learned in over two decades of ministry, how the Lord redirected through heartbreak, and how he pivoted to serve his congregation during Covid. Loren is passionate about helping people take the next step in the faith. His story reminds us that even when our plans don’t work out as we expect, it’s the Lord who directs our paths.

Listen to Loren’s story now!

Stories Loren shared:

• Serving as a local pastor in California
• Growing up in Texas in a Christian family
• His family’s return to the Lord through Loren’s uncle’s death
• Sensing God’s call as a child
• Beginning to preach at 15
• How his father encouraged him in the journey
• Becoming a youth pastor and pastoring a small church
• Getting declined for overseas missions
• Moving to California to do campus ministry
• Learning the practices of solitude and silence
• Focusing on learning how to be with the Lord not doing for the Lord
• How the pandemic shaped his identity with God
• Starting the 5 Minute Discipleship podcast
• His passion for discipleship

Great quotes from Loren:

God has unique ways of working.

Trying to understand the grace of God has been a theme of my life.

The doing flows out of the being.

Resources we mentioned:

• Loren’s website
• The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives by Dallas Willard

Related episodes:

• Markus Watson and How Suffering Transforms
• Felicia Song and Digital Discipleship
• Caesar Kalinowski and Discipleship as Mission

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