RW360 Annual Conference Speakers

Rankin began his career in corporate banking for a Fortune 500 company, but after five years transitioned into pastoral ministry. He has served in churches on the East Coast, West Coast, the South and Midwest – currently serving as Pastor of Discipleship at City Church, a gospel-centered church plant in Evansville, Indiana. 

He’s worked in small churches and large churches, church plants and churches more than a hundred years old, each at various stages of growth, so he’s familiar with some of the challenges church leaders can face in varying contexts. He’s the author of Union with Christ and the co-author of The Cross Before Me, both award-winning and both concerned with bringing pastoral theology into the life and heartbeat of the local church. 

As the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of professional counseling and mentoring, he’s particularly concerned with emotionally healthy spirituality and holistic discipleship, the kind that targets the heart, soul, and affections, and not just the mind. He’s currently working on a project devising a vision for discipleship that can be used in local churches. 

Rankin and his wife and three kids now live in a hundred-year-old farmhouse on the outskirts of town, far removed from their previous home in the middle of Los Angeles. He enjoys coaching his children’s sports teams, running, fishing with his kids, and doing life with his best friend, his wife.

Keynote: Forgiveness, Justice and Sowing Peace, Sunday morning sermon

Location/Times: Conference Schedule