Kyle McDaniel


Torrey, Terra and Kyle

 

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Quick Info:

Married to Terra

Children:
Torey

Education:
BBA from Texas A&M University

Favorite movies
The Matrix and It's a Wonderful Life

Usual coffee shop order
A red eye, or, when he's feeling especially adventurous, a caramel macchiato.

If Kyle could spend an evening with anyone who lived within the last 1000 years, he'd choose to spend it with Jonathan Edwards. He lived a life that was about the holiness of God and that was effective for His kingdom. Kyle would ask him about his thought life and the discipline he incorporated into his life that allowed him to do to this. He would want to know what was going through his mind as he saw revival and reformation break out in America. He would ask how the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and his book Freedom of the Will came to his mind and later his pen.

Favorite Bible verse:
"And one called out to another and said, 'Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.'" -Isaiah 6:3

Life Story

I am the son of a minister who loves Jesus and a mom who always sacrificed for her children. I was raised in a Godly and very loving family. I remember wanting to be like my parents but not really understanding what it meant to accept Jesus Christ. It wasn’t until a Thursday night revival meeting at Bethel Baptist Church on October 31, 1976 that I understood what Christ had done for me. When I walked down to talk with the minister, he asked me a simple question: “If I was to reach in my pocket, pull out my pocket knife, and hold it out to you as a gift, what would you have to do to receive it? I answered, “Take it.”

Brother Whitely told me that salvation was a lot like receiving that pocket knife. It was (is) a free gift, a gift based on grace. To obtain it, all I had to do was tell God in prayer that I wanted to do so. Pastor Whitely told me that receiving the gift meant placing Jesus at the head of my life. I received Christ that night. My life has never been the same.

Since that time, I have learned that while receiving Him is simple, living for Him isn’t as easy. It requires a constant focus on maintaining my dependence on my Heavenly Father. I have come to appreciate more of the fullness of what I was given and the high standards God has for those calling themselves followers of Christ. I have a passion for God’s Word because I have seen that it is absolutely vital to living out those standards. In the Scriptures, I have learned who God is, who I am, and who I can become because of Him. I want to live every day of my life in light of those truths.

Vision for The Austin Stone

My vision for the Stone is that we would be a catalyst for a generation reformation. I want us to be used by God to ignite the kind of spiritual transformation that was experienced in Europe in the 16th century during the Reformation or in America in the 18th century in the Great Awakening. I want us to be a church that plants at least 6 churches a year when we are a mature church since I believe that is God's plan for reaching the nations. I also desire that people around the world would know us as a church that clearly teaches the entire Biblical portrait of the character of God and that we as a church would hold up the name of God as holy.