Christmas Day | LET’S NOT COMPLICATE THE GOOD NEWS
Life gets complicated. Anyone who has ever opened a dollhouse on Christmas morning without reading the instructions knows this: tiny pieces, confusing steps, a
December 25, 2025
Pastor Chris is living his dream as the Pastor of Fellowship Church. His desire is to help men and women lean into their mission on purpose and for great purpose. He’s served his local church since 2014. Under his leadership, Fellowship Church has grown from a fledgling replant to a thriving spiritual family of well over 1000.
Pastor Chris has shepherded Fellowship Church to embrace healthy body life of active discipleship living out the one another statements of scripture, applying the gospel to learn to flourish in a fallen world. To be a church on mission on purpose to expand the Kingdom through replanting dying churches and planting new ones. Since 2018, Fellowship Church has seen 65 churches around the world live for the first time or live again. They have sent 15 members out into the mission field as pastors or missionaries since 2014.
Pastor Chris has earned a Bachelor’s in Theology, a Master’s in Theology, and a Master’s in Divinity. He is the former President of the Missouri Baptist Convention, a network of 1721 churches with over 400,000 members. He hosts the Beyond Preaching Podcast with Pastor Chris Williams and Co-hosts The Better Man Podcast.
He is the proud husband of Kate and the dad of Max, Cooper, Jack, Judson, Lincoln, Lottie Kate, and Jude.
Life gets complicated. Anyone who has ever opened a dollhouse on Christmas morning without reading the instructions knows this: tiny pieces, confusing steps, a
Before the Wrapping Paper and the Noise Before the lights are turned on.Before the gifts are opened.Before the table fills and the conversations begin—
Why Christmas Still Matters When Life Is Messy Some of you are heading into Christmas tired. You’re carrying stress you can’t seem to shake,
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