Russell Moore is known as the mouthpiece of the Southern Baptist Convention, but increasingly these days he’s seen by the outside world as a representative of conservative evangelicalism. He speaks regularly on television, the radio, and in a flurry of pointed tweets about the state of the evangelical church, the spectre of a Trump presidency, and the implications of society’s increasing pluralism. But Moore’s focus hasn’t always been so broad. He’s also spent time in local church ministry, in particular dealing with a series of real-life challenges that have prepared him for where he is today. Moore’s thought a lot about how churches can better influence the world by worrying less about proving our bona fides to one another. On this latest episode of The Calling, CT’s managing editor Richard Clark talked with Moore about his call to bring the Kingdom of God to local churches, his traumatic first ministry experience, and how local churches ought to approach the outside world.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices