Ralph Browne "Chip" Ingram II (born June 21, 1954)[2] is an American Christian pastor, author, and teacher.
[5] In his book Living on the Edge: Dare to Experience True Spirituality, Ingram recounts growing up in a church that did not believe in the Bible or in having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ: "We read our prayers, we said the right things, we fulfilled our religious duty, and then we went home.
There was absolutely no expectation that what we did on Sunday would have any impact on how we lived the rest of the week.”[6] As a result, by the time Ingram was a teenager, he was disengaged from church and God.
Ingram toured the Caribbean, South America, and Asia with three international basketball teams, a trip that he said to be the turning point of his life.
In 2003 Ingram moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to become president and chief executive officer of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, succeeding Bruce Wilkinson.