& A
with adam curtis
Q: How does your current role showcase your personality? A: My current role in camps uses my gifts and abilities in two ways. One of those is developing a team. I firmly believe that if I have a team that I’m currently influencing, it’s like a domino effect: they’ll be able to reach people in ways that I would never be able to. The second is the wild energy and out- of-the-box craziness that comes from being weird my whole life. I really love team-building, being free to be creative, and rallying a crowd of people to accomplish a task. Q: How does program and stage experience serve to further the Gospel? A: If you’re good at creating an experience for an audience, I believe that program helps to break down walls so that people are more comfortable. There are a lot of barriers in people’s lives, and if you can do anything to combat those barriers or to break down those walls, you really will see people open up and be receptive to spiritual things. Program disarms people so that when it comes to the decision that they’re going to make with the Lord, hopefully, the walls have come down and that decision is a little bit easier to make. Q: What advice can you give to those pursuing a platform ministry? A: First, be careful, because someone who is in a platform ministry may be under more spiritual attack than someone who isn’t. When you’re in a ministry such as the pastorate, public speaking, or anything on the stage, if Satan can get you to fall, he can get thousands of people to fall, because they’ll look at your example and mimic it. To sum up a lot of what I’ve encountered: 1) be careful and 2) be considerate. Q: What is one verse or passage that has meant the most to you in your ministry? A: II Timothy 2:10: “Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” Q: How do you challenge those moving on to the next phase of their journey? A: Remember that it’s YOUR journey. It’s very easy to look to the left and the right and see how your friends or your peers are growing and think that you should be growing at that same pace or in the same wa. But God may be calling you to something else or a different place. God has a plan for your life, and it’s going to be unique from everyone else because you are unique from everyone else. Q: What would you do with a million dollars? A: For reals: Invest it, buy a house that’s big enough for people to come over, and then take the rest of the money and donate it to someone or something, whether it’s a church or organization or an individual family I could bless. I believe helping those people is the Lord’s work. For fake: I would buy ramen noodles and sugar-free gummy bears, and then I would pay people to eat both straight up. It’s basically a laxative effect.
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