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There has been a HUGE "church growth" movement in my lifetime, but almost no one talks about the fact that Paul laid out a growth plan for us IN THE BIBLE.

The methods of growth the last few decades have really focused on prioritizing one of the gifts or equippers Paul lists in Ephesians at the expense of all the rest and I have to say, guys, it's creating very one-dimensional churches.

In this episode, we'll walk through Paul's Ephesians 4 Blueprint for Church Growth, and I'll give you the 3 steps we have to come into agreement on in order to grow the church into it's full maturity in Christ.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Biblical Church Growth

1:15 One Body?

7:13 The 5 Gifts

11:49 The Full Maturity Of The Church

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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Is there actually one right way to do church?

As Protestants, we may not always say we believe there’s “one true church”...but sometimes we still act like there’s one right set of traditions, one right structure, or one right way to worship.

So how do we know which traditions to follow?

What did Jesus mean when He talked about new wine and new wineskins? And what do Paul’s words about apostles, traditions, and “master builders” tell us about how churches should actually be formed?

In this video, I’m diving into the idea of apostolic blueprints—and why I believe the goal is unity, not uniformity.

Because maybe the question isn’t, “Which church has the perfect blueprint?”

Maybe it’s, “Who built this blueprint, what kind of fruit is it producing, and will it withstand the day?”

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Is There One True Church?

3:21 The 3 Versions of Wineskin Parable

9:07 The Word That Unlocks Traditions

15:13 Protestant Wineskins and the FRUIT of Apostolic Workers

18:44 The Only 2 Possibilities

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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My family and I spend a lot of time at Lakeside Bible Camp in Washington. I grew up coming here in the summers, and it's a big part of my own spiritual DNA, having been founded by a group of Plymouth Brethren assemblies.

It's that spiritual DNA that I'll be talking about in this episode, and it's something I want to challenge you to consider in your own life.

Whether the DNA has shaped your life directly or indirectly (we don't attend a Plymouth Brethren assembly, for example), there are things that have happened along the way that make your faith what it is, and make you who you are.

As part of our journey to build roots as a multi-generational family, it can be helpful to consider the soil and the seeds that eventually matured into your family tree - family and spiritually.

In This Episode:

0:00 What Is Your Spiritual DNA?

2:23 They Take The Bible SERIOUSLY

7:08 Meeting and Solving Passivity

10:14 Strict Dispensationalism

12:16 Navigating Your Own DNA

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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How do we restore the Biblical church?

The answer might surprise you.

It turns out most people are missing a step.

That step, it turns out, is family.

But NOT the kind of family you're thinking of...

The Biblical Household.

God's idea of family is MUCH different than what most of us grew up with, and what we see in America today.

In this episode, Jeremy unpacks the true path to restoring the Biblical Church by re-establishing the Biblical Household.

In This Episode:

0:00 Intro

2:12 Youth Pastor

8:12 The Meeting of the Throwing Prayer Cards

13:33 "You Can't Go On TWO Vacations!"

18:54 The Shift From Family To Household

28:21 How To Start A Biblical Oikos

35:15 What Does It Look Like To Build A Multigenerational Family

45:17 Making Disciples Who Make Disciples

Resources:

Pastor to Pioneer Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pastortopioneer

Pastor to Pioneer Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6K6d9an8SEep0MFd3K1pIl

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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The Patient Ferment of the Early Church is one of the top 3 books I've read in the last 10 years.

In this episode, I'm going to give you my review of it, why it was so amazing and challenging for me, and the top 10 things I learned from it.

This is a deep dive into how the early church operated, what we can learn from it, and why patience was the secret weapon to everything, including evangelism.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:09 Evangelism

3:31 Secret Services

6:26 God's Method

8:05 Full Participation

10:56 The Messianic Era of Peace

12:14 Right Relationship

13:45 Sponsors

16:03 Catechesis To Change Habits

17:28 Bishops

20:17 Constantine and Augustine

24:32 My Question To You

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801048494/

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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What kind of church did Jesus envision?

This is part 2 of my attempt to answer that, breaking down the church into it's various "cornerstones", from the ground up, in this order:

If we go from first principles, I think you'll see that we've basically been doing church all wrong.

Worship services are great and important, but they are NOT the fullness of what Christ intended to create.

I'll also break down the missing element that will allow us to create an Acts-style church again in our cities, and it probably won't be what you think.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 How was the Church described in Acts?

0:25 What is the Church?

3:46 3 Elements of the Acts Church

7:33 Household Misunderstandings

14:32 The Church as a Body

19:41 Mutual Submission and Hierarchy

23:02 A Clearer Sense of The Church (NOT Just Worship Services)

Resources:

Part 1: What Kind of Church Did Jesus Envision?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35W8OrDzMZw

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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Small Groups are NOT the same as disciple-making.

Brian was deep into Small Groups, doing it the way everyone's been doing it for ages, when the Lord suddenly convicted him that he wasn't actually fulfilling the Great Commission with the work he was doing.

He chose the path of humility and allowed the Lord to strip him of all that he thought he knew, and to build him back up.

And the results have been incredible.

Brian's disciple-making went to the 4th and 5th generation and beyond, and he now helps churches make disciples who make disciples...again, getting to that magical 4th generation where growth becomes natural and expected.

This is an exciting episode, and one in which I got a major download about something Brian said related to making both Small Groups AND disciple-making work hand in hand without cannibalizing each other.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:56 Prioritizing Disciple-Making

3:05 The difference between disciple-making and small group ministry

9:48 First principles disciple-making

19:54 Getting to the 4th generation and beyond

24:40 From inclusive to exclusive invitations

29:32 Acceptable time commitment

33:38 What actually works to transform lives

39:00 How to engage local churches

Resources:

Disciples Made: https://disciplesmade.com

The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801048494/

Not A Fan by Kyle Idleman: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310344700/

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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99% of pastors admit that they're failing at this.

And it's one of the reasons nobody can tell me where to find a disciple-making movement that survives to the fourth generation and beyond...one that truly makes 'viral' disciples, and grows explosively.

Jesus never told us to build a church.

He told us to make disciples.

When we make disciples, they naturally form a strong church.

But if we get the order of those wrong, well, we're seeing the result of that today.

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:29 99% of pastors think we're failing

4:04 Solution 1: Track

6:42 Solution 2: Celebrate

8:45 Solution 3: Method

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RESOURCES:

Life on Life Discipleship: https://www.1kh.org/discipleship

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🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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This question is the foundation for SO much of our lives as Christians as we walk with Jesus.

If He looked around today, would He recognize the church?

How do we really know if the church we're worshiping in was what He had in mind?

What are the consequences, if not?

I'll be diving into all of that today, with this, the first of a multi-part video series asking the question, "what kind of church did Jesus envision?"

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:37 Is this what Jesus had in mind?

2:11 If you only read the New Testament...

9:03 The Foundation In Family

11:05 The Confession

15:45 Parallel Government

19:51 Apprenticeship Movement

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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Is there one true church?

Or could Jesus have been talking about the different expressions of church in His parable about the wineskin that we read about in Matthew, Mark, and Luke?

I'm willing to say that maybe Jesus Himself preferred the old wine, and hey, maybe it is better in the older traditions in some ways. BUT...

There are just too many people who are new wine, who need new wineskins.

I couldn't possibly pigeonhole myself and feel pressured to suggest that everybody needs to fit into old wineskins.

Obviously this isn't an exhaustive ecclesiology, but what do you think about my take on this? Let me know in the comments!

In this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:02 How Jesus answers the question in Matthew

4:01 Mark's version

5:10 Luke's parable

6:34 Answering the most divisive question

8:50 Room for both

11:23 Practical application

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🏠 LEARN HOW TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS, IN AND THROUGH YOUR HOME: 1kh.org

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Hi, welcome to the 1000 Houses Podcast! Our goal here is to help you spread the Gospel, build a community, and multiply disciplines...in and through your home. Your host is Jeremy Pryor. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Youtube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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