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What if the end of faith isn’t merely obedience, but union — not just serving God, but becoming one with Him?

In this soul-stretching conversation, Tim Churchward returns to walk with us through the wild, often tangled forest of Christian expression. We speak not of buildings or brands, but of ecclesia — the called ones — and what it truly means to gather in Spirit and in truth.

From the tender, flickering intimacy of house churches where hearts are known, to the colossal machinery of the megachurch, pulsing with production yet prone to drift from the breath of the Spirit — we ask: when did church become performance? And what is lost when succession becomes nepotism, when presence yields to programs?

Our path bends eastward, into the deep wells of Orthodox Christianity and its ancient vision of theosis — the transformation of the self into divine likeness. This isn’t salvation as transaction, but as transfiguration — a lifelong pilgrimage toward union with the divine. A journey not of striving, but surrender.

Set against a world racing toward artificial intelligence and transhuman dreams, we ask whether these longings echo a deeper truth: are we trying to become gods without God? Is this our Babel moment, or a misfired hunger for the sacred we were made to reflect?

This episode is for the wanderer, the faithful doubter, the weary churchgoer, and the mystic hidden in the pews. If you’ve ever longed for a church that feels more like a fellowship of the broken than a business of the saved, come with us. There’s grace in the questions. There’s God in the longing.

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