Episode 48: J.D. Payne

In this episode we have a conversation with J.D. Payne around apostolic imagination, missions, and church planting. 

J. D. Payne serves as professor of Christian Ministry at Samford University.  Prior to this, he was the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama.  Before moving to Birmingham, he served for ten years with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and as an Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism in the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting.

Over the years, he has written numerous articles and reviews in the area of missions and evangelism and church growth.  

He is the host of Strike the Match, a podcast that addresses missions, innovation, and leadership.

J. D. speaks frequently for churches, denominations, networks, and mission agencies/societies. Believing that every believer is supposed to be a “fruit-bearing” disciple in a local church, he is passionate about seeing the Body of Christ grow as local congregations work to carry out the Great Commission.

He is married to Sarah, a physician in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with Christ Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama. They have three children:  Hannah, Rachel, and Joel.  He may be contacted at jd.payne@samford.edu

J.D.'s books:
Amazon Author Page
Apostolic Imagination

J.D.'s recommendations:
Effective Intercultural Evangelism by Jay Moon and Bud Simon
Sharing Jesus without Freaking Out by Scott Hildreth
Evangelism in a Skeptical World by Sam Chan