Big Things Start Small

Big Things Start Small

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Big Things Start Small episodes

  • Individual Rights vs. Communal Flourishing

    This season is inspired by our response to the Capitol Insurrection on January 6, 2021. We looking at the ways that the white evangelical church has fused its theology with a nationalistic religion in ways that are contrary to the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and reflecting on what Jesus might be calling us to instead. This week, we are looking at the issue of individual rights verses communal flourishing. 

    46 min
  • A Gospel of Salvation vs. The Kingdom

    This season is inspired by our response to the Capitol Insurrection on January 6, 2021. We looking at the ways that the white evangelical church has fused its theology with a nationalistic religion in ways that are contrary to the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and reflecting on what Jesus might be calling us to instead. This week starts by expressing frustration with the White Evangelical Church and seeks to address some of the ways that the church has fused with the wrong gospel and what Jesus might be calling the church to move to instead. This week we are looking at the ways in which the good news of the gospel has been shrunk to a gospel of salvation with a gospel of the Kingdom. 

    28 min
  • Episode 5: Shifting Culture Part 4
    Kasey and Beth diving into the 3 different modes leaders must shift into in order to leader through transition and the process of Appreciative Inquiry that lead their church into “Broccoli Month.” (Resource mentioned: Mark Branson’s Memories, Hopes, and Conversations)
    37 min
  • Episode 4: Shifting Culture Part 3
    Kasey and Best cover the second key shift that every church leader and congregant has to make, which is a new understanding of making missional disciples. Most church models follow a worship -> community -> mission framework. But perhaps that model needs to be completely flipped on its head.
    28 min
  • Episode 3: Shifting Culture Part 2
    Beth and Kasey continue talking about what it looks like to learn and embody a local place as a church (both a collective organization and as individual members). The first major mindset shift is to move from being a spectator to a participant. This is as hard for leadership as it is for the congregation.
    29 min
  • Episode 2: Shifting Culture Part 1

    Beth and Kasey share some background information of Clarksburg Church (the church that Beth is the pastor of) and about the importance understanding the local community so that a church can become incarnate in its location. 

    34 min
  • Episode 1: Why Big Thing Start Small

    For our first episode, we are laying the foundation of what cultural shifts that have happened in Western/American culture that require the church to re-imagine its call and what success looks like. 


    "Joining God, Remaking Church, and Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time" by Alan J. Roxburgh

    34 min

About Big Things Start Small

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Beth, a pastor of a small church restart, and Kasey, a marketer by trade, have been talking and experimenting since 2017 to reimagine what the church is called to be and become. Big Things Start Small…