Rick Bennett is field coordinator of the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

1. Where did you grow up?

West Palm Beach, Florida, and Ellerbe, North Carolina.

2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why?

Luke 2:52.

It reveals the faithfully human Jesus.

3. What is your favorite movie? Why?

The Bourne series.

Sometimes, often after a deacons’ meeting, you have to rough someone up vicariously for self-care.

4. Who are three people you admire?

Dallas Willard, Bo Prosser and your pastor (yes, you, the reader).

5. What is one little-known fact about yourself?

According to DNA testing, I’m 2.1 percent Sub Saharan African. Find out who you are and celebrate it.