Navigating Play, Pain and Prayer | Tyler Staton

Navigating Play, Pain and Prayer | Tyler Staton

From Next Up with Grant Skeldon by THINQ Media

May 19, 2026 · 1h 4m

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Grant Skeldon interviews Tyler Staton about the tension between worldly influence and the call to hiddenness and prayer in leadership.

In this episode, Grant sits down with pastor and author Tyler Staton to tackle a massive tension facing the next generation of leaders: the desire for worldly influence versus the call to a more private hiddenness and prayer. When you're young, you want to change the world, but it is easy to overestimate our own capacity and underestimate the slow, humble work of God. Tyler opens up about his battle with advanced cancer, how suffering shifted his soul's perspective on ministry, and why true kingdom movement starts in the secret place, not on a platform. They dive into how young leaders can navigate the pressures of platform growth without losing their intimacy with Jesus, and what it looks like to honestly and regularly surrender our motives. In this episode, you'll learn: The Prayer Gap: Why young leaders naturally gravitate toward high-profile strategies like church planting while often overlooking quiet, global prayer movements. The Illusion of Pure Motives: How to regularly surrender your ego and distinguish between serving the church out of love versus using the bride of Christ to fuel your platform. Kingdom Hiddenness: Why Jesus frequently ran from worldly economics and…

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