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“Enjoy the Show!”

  “Enjoy the Show!” and other things that shouldn’t be said about a worship service. David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about whether 1) a worship service is a central, peripheral, or complimentary part of a church (plant), and 2) if it matters whether people come to your worship service or not. What ya Reading? […]

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Lent: Punishment or Preparation?

  Is Lent a time of punishment or preparation? Is Lent at time for binding the flesh or building up faith? And in a culture that refuses to remember death, when we are marked by ashes (“from ashes you came and to ashes you will return”), let us remember that we will die, and that […]

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Seeing Another Story = Discipleship

  What is the core of discipleship? Does information + action = discipleship? Is there something missing from this equation? Fitch and Holsclaw discuss the important aspect of “seeing yourself in another story” in the process of discipleship. Only in the conversion of our imagination, immersed in a different story and seeing the world and […]

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The De-Radicalization of MLK

  Have we lost the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr? Have we assimilated him into the American Dream, losing the Dream he had for America in the process? David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw sit down with local pastor Pierre Keys and student-activist Josiah Daniels to talk about the past and future of the Civil […]

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What Do You Gather Around? Practices Or Ideas.

  What makes your community tick? What is the glue holding you together? Is it what you THINK of God or what you DO with God? Kicking off the New Year David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about how church’s can no longer merely gather around common beliefs but around common practices (practices that promise […]

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The Mission of Preaching: Audio from 2015 Missional Learning Commons

  Here are all five *special episodes* recorded at this year’s Missional Commons which focused on “The Mission of Preaching” (hosted by NORTHERN SEMINARY and ECCLESIA NETWORK). All of the Episodes: BOASTING IN WEAKNESS: The Source of our Ministry ~ Mandy Smith PREACHING OR TEACHING? ~ David Fitch POUR OVER SERMONS: Brewing in the Spirit ~ […]

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#17 Should the Church Protest?

Are you a soldier of reconciliation, or a crusader of some other cause? What is the role of the church in a culture of injustice? What is the church’s witness within a world of fear? When the fear of African-Americans at the hands of police violence is now matched by the fear of White American […]

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Mission or Institution: Our Denominations?

Initially revival and mission movements, why do most denominations lose their founding Spirit and settle into an established Letter? “You make void the word of God by our traditions” says Jesus (Mark 7:13). Is this slow shift from the Spirit to the Letter inevitable? “Have our denominations shifted from their spirit of mission to the letter […]

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The Local Church is Going…Local

  What is the focus of the Local Church? Should it focus on being…LOCAL? Dave and Geoff talk about the importance of practicing the presence of Christ in the neighborhoods we find ourselves. This special episode is the first time in front of a live audience. The best way to support “Theology on Mission” is […]