Here it is: The Deuce Part Deux!

The Players

* Bridget

* Thomas

* R.C.

* Wesley

The Question

 

This is a continuation of the conversation we started a few weeks ago.  If you haven't yet listened to it, please do so by clicking here.  In that episode, we broached the topic of what "organic church" is and/or isn't.  Wesley ended that episode with another question:

Is This Possible Without a Worker?

Well, we tackle that potentially sticky topic here.  Please understand, this recording is an edited version of a very candid conversation among 4 friends who are brothers and a sister in Christ.  We are currently being trained to be church planters/workers.  What you hear are our own thoughts, questions, and convictions from experiencing the Lord in 4+ years of "organic" body life.

We had great dialogue in the comments on Part 1 of this topic, and we hope to have more of the same here.  Please feel free to ask any questions on anything about which you'd like a little more clarification.

The Song

The song chosen to play before and after our conversation is "All My Days" by Alexi Murdoch.  This song is a beautiful illustration of someone asking a question(s) all their days to finally find the answer.  Whether the writer intended for God to be the answer or not, that's what I see in this song.  He found me, and now even breathing feels alright.  The lyrics are below:

Well I have been searching all of my days

All of my days

Many a road, you know

I've been walking on

All of my days

And I've been trying to find

What's been in my mind

As the days keep turning into night

 

Well I have been quietly standing in the shade

All of my days

Watch the sky breaking on the promise that we made

All of this rain

And I've been trying to find

What's been in my mind

As the days keep turning into night

 

Well many a night I found myself with no friends standing near

All of my days

I cried aloud

I shook my hands

What am I doing here

All of these days

For I look around me

And my eyes confound me

And it's just too bright

As the days keep turning into night

 

Now I see clearly

It's you I'm looking for

All of my days

Soon I'll smile

I know I'll feel this loneliness no more

All of my days

For I look around me

And it seems you've found me

And it's coming into sight

As the days keep turning into night

As the days keep turning into night

And even breathing feels all right

Yes, even breathing feels all right

Now even breathing feels all right

It's even breathing

Feels all right

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The Players

* Thomas

* Wesley

* R.C.

* Bridget

The Question

For those who are new to the blog, or for those who haven't figured this out by now, we are saints who meet outside the typical, American church system.  Some people call what we do "organic church".  Admittedly, that is what Bridget, R.C., and Wesley all moved across the country for a few years ago: organic church.  What we've all discovered over the past four and five years is that this "organic church" thing wasn't just another way to "do" church.  It was simply a term to help more easily identify what was happening.  We no longer aspire to be a part of an "organic church", but to be built together with, function together with, and express the nature of Jesus Christ with His Church: the ecclesia.  In this podcast, the four of us wanted to discuss the definition of organic church, and well, frankly, the Lord took us in an interesting direction.  What is posted here is the first part of our conversation (heavily edited for time and shenanigans) with part 2 currently slated to post next Monday, November 24th.

So, the question that we discuss here is:

What is Organic Church?

Again, we have all lived in, participated in, and experienced "organic church life" for over 4 years each.  Our answers stem from that experience with Christ and His Body.  We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section.

The Song

The song chosen to play before and after our conversation is "Setting Our Tables" by The Last Bison.  This is the same group used last time, and I thought the title was appropriate for topic of conversation: we're setting our tables for this juicy dialogue.  The lyrics are below:

Our forks and knives

They work with antlers side by side

They’re gnawing at the withered pine

Hoping she’s the one

 

As the Red Deer relate to

The month of April.

So do we wait patiently

To set our tables

Our forks and knives

They work with antlers side by side

They’re gnawing at the withered pine

Hoping she’s the one

And my Father’s Bride

Is tearing down the mountain side

Soon the trees will all align

Leaving us with Sons

Cast them later than the older ones

Until September when they have become

Fully covered in a velvet skin

Till they’re just like the shrubs and saplings they defend

As the skin sheds slowly

The mount becomes more stable

And I would climb to redefine

The path if I were able

Future Podcast Episode Ideas

Also, we'd love to answer any questions you may have for future podcast episodes.  So, if there is a topic or two just burning your brain, please ask it (or them) in the comments section, and we'll seek the Lord on answering.

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The Players

* R.C.

* Thomas

* Wesley

* Bridget

The Question

In August of this year, the four of us were privileged to speak to a group of spiritually hungry believers in Southern California at a conference called Infusion.  This conference was designed for those who are searching for something outside of the religious institution, aka, organic church.  We were tasked with answering a list of five questions posed to us by Milt Rodriguez.  After seeing how the Lord used that time to minister to those saints who were there, we decided we would take the opportunity to record a conversation over each of the questions and post them here on the blog.  We were tasked with answering these questions because we have been involved in body life/organic church life for over 3 and half years each, and we are now in California training to plant organic expressions of Jesus Christ.

So, the first question that we discuss here is:

What has your experience been having a Christian worker plant the church?

Again, we have all lived in, participated in, and experienced "organic church life" for over 3.5 years each.  Our answers stem from that experience with Christ and His Body.  We hope you are encouraged, challenged, blessed, and maybe even a little edutained (educated + entertained = early morning hours). :)

The Song

The song chosen to play before and after our conversation is "Quill" by The Last Bison.  I found the song going through my son's music on his computer and fell in love with it and with the group.  The lyrics are below:

When the ink meets quill

With love my letters are filled

Let us seal this love as the back

Of the envelope’s sealed with wax

We will run away

From those who’d lead us astray

Searching hard we will fully rely

On the words of the one crucified

We will run away

From those who lead us astray

Searching hard we will fully rely

On the grace of the one crucified

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