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At a MANifest backyard bonfire gathering, masterclass speaker, author, and Christian business leader Jim Lange posed a startling question: “Are you known in hell?”
Drawing from Scripture, decades of leadership experience, and George Barna’s landmark research on spiritual growth, Jim explores why most Christians never move beyond comfortable religion into the deeper life of surrender, courage, intimacy with God, and transformational mission.
Through stories of personal suffering, professional adversity, spiritual breakthrough, and hard-earned wisdom, Jim reveals a profound truth: the obstacles, trials, and enemies we often pray away may be the very instruments God is using to shape us into the men He created us to become. Like Joshua and Caleb entering the Promised Land, the battles before us are not evidence of God’s absence, but invitations into our inheritance.
Most men spend their lives avoiding difficulty. Great men learn to see suffering differently.
This powerful and deeply personal message challenges us to move beyond merely being busy for God and into a life marked by intimacy with Christ, increasing obedience, a greater filling of the Holy Spirit, and the courage to become men whose lives truly advance the Kingdom.
If you’ve ever wondered why God allows struggle, how spiritual maturity is forged, or what it really means to live as a man on mission, this conversation is for you.
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At the heart of IT all is God’s reminder: We Image the Trinity. That’s the IT.
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