J.D. Payne is professor of Christian ministry at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. J.D. has served also as a pastor, and the host of a podcast called “Strike the Match.” J.D. is also a prolific author, who writes frequently at jdpayne.org and has published fifteen books about missions and evangelism. Most recently, he authored a book that we’ll be discussing in today’s episode called “Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for the Church’s Mission Today.”