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NCMU 52 | Doug Parks: The Team Sport of Reaching the Lost

SHOW NOTES

Mark Lutz sits down with Doug Parks, founder of Intentional Churches, for a practical conversation about helping believers move from spectatorship to personal ownership of the Great Commission. Together, they unpack how churches, digital ministries, streamers, creators, and online communities can avoid reinforcing consumeristic faith and instead build communities where people are equipped to reach “their one.” Doug shares the heart behind Intentional Churches, the importance of radical alignment, the danger of institutional thinking, and how tools like the “one,” core motivators, and discovery frameworks can help ministry leaders design with clarity, purpose, and mission. This episode is especially helpful for anyone serving in nerd culture ministry, digital church, livestreaming, Discord communities, or creative evangelism spaces.





Episode Hosts

Mark Lutz
Sr. Pastor + Founder of Lux Digital Church
Pastor Mark is the lead pastor at Lux Digital Church. He has served in various ministry roles over the past fifteen years, most recently at New Life Christian Ministries as the Discipleship Pastor. He lives in a small town in western PA with his beautiful wife Jenn and his two daughters Brooklyn and Aria.

Episode Guests

Doug Parks-

Intentional Churches



Episode Discussion

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