Aus Table Talk | Conversations you wish you could have at church

How often do we not examine what we believe as human beings? No matter our walk in life there are certainly points where we don’t. We also talk about if we had a motto in life what would it be, so if your curious check that out at the start of this episode. So come along as we ask Is Christianity a Crutch?

Should there be a separation between church and state? And to what extent? In this episode we look a bit into the history of this question as well look at its implications in the modern world. Should we as Christians be involved in politics at all? To understand the history of this question I would highly recommend looking up Roger Williams and the founding of Rhode Island its an interesting read for any history enthusiast.

Have you ever asked the question why couldn’t God just forgive? Or why did Jesus have to die and suffer? In this episode we investigate penal substitution or Christ’s sacrifice in our place; while we ask the question why couldn’t God just forgive us without Christ suffering for us?

This episode we explore the story of Jesus visiting Nazareth, found in Mark 6:1-6. We discuss how it's interesting that those we grew up around often look at us as, the way we were a few years ago rather than where we are in our walk now, and Jesus’ experience was no different to that. We also made an unexpected application regarding how the great commission to go to the world is about freeing us from our slavery in sin and how like the Israelites of old we mistake it for another form of slavery

Kaleb Eisele and Tim Baumgarten are BACK to talk about what graceful succession from boomer to millennials looks like in the church, why is it so thorny and how can we do it right

If you want to hear Tim or Kaleb's first episodes. you can find them here:

• Bridges over walls with Kaleb Eisele
• How to Revive a Dead church with Tim Baumgarten

And if you want to follow these amazing guys

• https://www.facebook.com/humansofadventism/
• https://www.facebook.com/tim.baumgartensr.1

When we started recording this episode, we intended to do a No-Agenda episode however little did we know that on of Kaleb Eisele questions would totally derailed this episode and take it in another direction. So join us for an episode where we start talking about our internal dialogue and finish with talking about how although we can be content in God yet we can in fact be discontent as well

Is the church still relevant post Covid19? In this episode we discuss what we have learnt from the new way we are doing church during covid, as well as what is important from the way we have traditionally done church and ask the question; Is there a better way we can be doing church?

How does essentialism help our faith and walk with God? In this episode we talk about getting more out of life by focusing on what is truly important to us. We all live such busy lives these days and its so hard to fit everything in, and because of this it’s important to find out if we have things in our lives that are not as important as others, so if we do have to cut back on something we know what is most important. I know we at ATT are guilty when it comes to over committing in life so come along as we struggle with this principle

Even before covid-19 there has been a loneliness epidemic in our community; In this episode we explore what it means to be connected to the people around us, because being connected is important for our health and wellbeing, being social is the way God made us. Loneliness is not being seen

We find ourselves caught in a world of competing narratives about race. "Black lives matter!" "All lives matter!" "Calm down, let's just preach the gospel." "Advocating for social justice IS the Gospel!". With all of this going on it is easy to miss the point, It is also easy to stick your head in the sand and keep living your own life.

We have crafted this as a "listening" episode, we all took some time to read, learn, listen and pray our way through these complicated issues (as well as organise guests who have experienced racism first hand) and this episode is the result.

No matter where you stand on the issue, we implore you to listen, and if you are willing, start with this episode.

Many thanks to our contributors

• Heather Thompson Day
• Benjamin Amoah (The Auricle Podcast)
• Kelly Jackman
• Eric Jean-Baptiste (Youth Ministry & Mentorship 101)
• Eva Liao