Geoffrey Holsclaw
“What’s the difference anyway?” you might ask when it comes to preaching and teaching. In this special episode, pastor and professor David Fitch talks about this difference between preaching and teaching, and how we need to proclaim the gospel in the pulpit, around the dinner table, and the everywhere else. This is the second of […]
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 […]
Can you “boast in your (ministry) weakness”? Author, speakers and pastor Mandy Smith discusses how vulnerability and limitation is the true source of ministry effectiveness. Let us all learn to embrace our own humanity. Please check out her new book “The Vulnerable Pastor“. This is the first of five *special episodes* recorded at this […]
What you’re NOT thinking about is often the most important thing about you. This is the impact of “ideology”, the hidden assumptions that effect our thoughts and provoke our emotions. In this new episode David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about the “making of misunderstanding” caused b the different ideological assumptions we bring into our relationships […]
Is your church pushing your pastor toward a fall like those found on Ashley Madison? What does the Ashley Madison scandal tell us about our churches? In the aftermath of Ashly Madison, churches began picking up the pieces after their pastors fell (see these posts by Ed Stetzer). But David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw take […]
A worship “experience”? A time for “teaching”? Is the time on Sundays for our heads or our hearts, or something else? Fitch and Holsclaw talk cast a different vision for the worship gathering as a time of corporate spiritual formation. The best way to support “Theology on Mission” is to write us an iTunes […]
“A justification for our own sorry existence as evangelicals.” Or, why We don’t fit in anywhere. Dave Fitch and I make a first attempt at articulating another way, a third way, for theology and mission for evangelicals, beyond the conservative/progressive dichotomy. We talk about some historical roots for this dichotomy and hint toward an alternative […]
Is being a bi-vocational pastor a necessary evil or a positive opportunity? In the new episode of “Theology on Mission” David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about bi-vocational ministry, how it is an opportunity to rethink pastoral vocation and church ministry, all wrapped in personal stories. Follow and Subscribe: Please follow “Theology on Mission” on […]
So I’ve been really busy teaching and grading, and haven’t done much writing her. But I have been writing and stuff. And Fitch and I have been busy creating a new “Theology on Mission” podcast (which has been really fun and recieve really well so far). Please check it out, and if you listen through […]