Pastor · Speaker · Coach · Author
Recover a faith formed by Jesus—not fear.
Brian Drinkwine helps people and churches recognize what has been forming them, disentangle faith from fear and political captivity, heal the divisions empire leaves behind, and recover a hopeful life centered on Jesus and his kingdom.
For twenty-five years, Brian has served as a pastor, primary communicator, church planter, organizational leader and trusted companion to leaders navigating complicated terrain.
- Twenty-five years leading and communicating
- Church planting, replanting and executive leadership
- Rooms from living rooms to thousands
Speaking & Teaching
Some conversations need more than another opinion.
They need language clear enough to name what is happening, courage strong enough to face it, and hope rooted deeply enough to move forward.
Brian has a rare gift: he can challenge the way a whole room thinks without making anyone in it feel condemned. The spiritual skeptic, the lifelong believer and the dad in the back row who never wanted to come all find themselves leaning in. His teaching goes deep without leaving anyone behind.
He speaks to churches, conferences, retreats, universities, leadership gatherings and ministry teams about formation, allegiance, leadership, healing and the work of becoming more like Jesus in a fractured world.
The presenting issue is rarely the deepest issue.
Political conflict, leadership fatigue, fractured relationships, burnout and institutional change often reveal a more fundamental question: What has been forming us, and who are we becoming?
Formation and Allegiance
Recognizing how fear, tribe, certainty, power and the pursuit of winning shape our faith—and learning again to organize life around Jesus.
Leadership and Church Health
Developing leaders, strengthening teams, navigating change, clarifying culture and building churches capable of healthy, sustainable ministry.
Healing and Resilience
Finding language for grief and disorientation, recovering from burnout and division, and learning to lead from being rather than constant doing.
Faith for Real Life
Exploring Scripture, belonging, relationships, family, spiritual seeking and everyday discipleship with conviction, humility and curiosity.
Coaching
You do not have to navigate disorientation alone.
By the time many pastors, leaders and churches ask for help, they already know something has shifted. Relationships have broken. Familiar language no longer works. Political and cultural formation has reached into the life of the church. Leaders are trying to hold people together while making sense of their own grief.
Brian offers coaching as a trusted companion, not an expert arriving above the situation with a prefabricated answer. He helps leaders and teams slow down, name what is happening, ask better questions and find a faithful next step.
For pastors and ministry leaders
A confidential space to process what is happening, recover clarity and lead from a healthier center.
For churches and ministry teams
A trusted outside companion for conversations that have felt too difficult, divisive or unsafe to have alone.
A pastor’s heart. A communicator’s clarity. A trusted guide for difficult terrain.
Brian has spent twenty-five years helping people take meaningful steps toward Jesus. His experience spans church planting and replanting, executive leadership, next-generation ministry, organizational change, leadership development, preaching, coaching and the slow work of building communities where people can belong before they have everything figured out.
He is a strategist and futurist by wiring, but his deepest work is pastoral: helping people tell the truth about where they are, recognize where God may be at work, and move forward with clarity and hope.
Watch Brian teach
Biblical depth, memorable imagery, pastoral honesty and a practical invitation to respond.
Amazon bestseller
Kingdom Over Empire
Recovering the Gospel from Political Captivity
What if the greatest threat to Christian faithfulness is not simply what we believe about politics, but what politics has been forming us to become?
Kingdom Over Empire helps Christians recognize how fear, tribal loyalty, enemy-making, manufactured certainty and the addiction to winning can reshape faith until it no longer resembles Jesus. Written with pastoral honesty and biblical conviction, it offers a path toward a faith that engages the world without bowing to it.
Go beyond information.
Formation happens through repeated attention, honest conversation, shared practices and communities willing to walk together. These are designed to help the work move from an idea into a life.
Online community · Beta
The Clearing
An online community for people disentangling faith from political captivity and learning to follow Jesus with greater clarity, courage and hope.
$7 a month with the code Founders
Daily, by text
The Kingdom Way
A concise daily invitation to notice, reconsider and practice the way of Jesus in ordinary life.
$3.99 a month or $24 a year
Free and private
Allegiance Self-Assessment
Forty statements and eight stages of formation to help you recognize the shape of your journey and identify a faithful next step.
Answers stay on your device
What conversation does your church need to have?
Whether you are planning an event, navigating division, supporting tired leaders or searching for language for a difficult season, the first step is a conversation.