About this episode

Gabrielle Black discusses the importance of making personal faith choices despite a strong Christian upbringing.

This week, Debi is joined by Gabrielle Black, youth pastor at Dream City Church Scottsdale campus. Gabrielle talks about growing up in a strong Christian home, attending church multiple times a week and going to Christian school. Even with all of those positive, godly influences she still had to make her faith her own. Gabrielle and Debi discuss how too many young people coast through growing up in church and live off of their parents' faith but never truly develop a strong fait...

People in this episode

Host: Debi

Guest: Gabrielle Black

Topics covered

• faith development
• youth ministry
• Christian upbringing
• personal faith
• church involvement

Keywords

• faith
• Christianity
• youth pastor
• Dream City Church
• personal faith
• church
• Christian school

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dream City Church, Dream City Church Scottsdale

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