
Keith Nix
Pastor Keith Nix
About Keith Nix
Keith Nix is a husband, father, pastor, evangelist, and author whose passion is to reach, teach, and elevate people to their full God-given potential. He and his wife, Margie, live in Sevierville, Tennessee, with their daughter Isabell, where they planted The Lift Church — a community shaped by their conviction that the church must move beyond entertainment into genuine encounter with God.
Pastor Nix is the author of Losing Jesus in Church, a sobering yet hope-filled examination of why 70 to 80 percent of young people walk away from the faith at age 18 — and only 35 percent ever return. Built around the story of Mary and Joseph losing and finding Jesus in the temple, the book offers eight practical steps for believers and congregations to reconnect with Christ. He argues the crisis is not the gospel but the way it is presented, and that congregations which call the altar a "stage" have already signaled a deeper drift.
In 2020, during the height of the pandemic, Pastor Nix received a striking prophetic word — first that God would place a "divine pause" on the enemy's agenda, and second, the declaration he heard as it left his own lips: "After insurrection, resurrection." Years before the word "insurrection" entered the national conversation, he was proclaiming that God would follow that moment with a resurrection of hope, truth, humility, and common sense across America.

