Kathryn opens up a conversation around the third shift we are making in our discipleship: from spectators to participants. In an era where our discipleship forms have often centered around a stage or a video, it's interesting to look back at Jesus's way with his disciples. He was the ultimate Rabbi, (teacher) but his teaching was different because it invited participation. He invited his disciples into conversation, asking over 300 questions, and he invited them into practicing their faith... involving them in active miracles, a life of prayer, and more. How could we begin to go back to not only his way, but the way of the early church, and invite participation in new ways?

In a world that has more accessible information than ever before, we can move beyond information transfer to transformational discipleship. While having knowledge about the Bible and God is very important, it is not enough... we were called to relationship with him. God is meant to be experientially known, not just mentally known. Job had second hand knowledge of God but desired a first hand experience of him... reminding us that there is always more for us as well.

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We're adding this bonus episode at the end of our shift from isolation to family, after hearing from so many of you that your relationship with family has been complicated or wounding. Kathleen Doyle, a pastor counselor with over 25 years of church leadership experience, helps us walk through what it means to disentangle our relationship with Jesus from the wounds of people, the difference in spiritual abuse and wounding, and some steps we could take to move forward and reimagine what it could mean to experience spiritual family again.

@kathleenadoyle https://m.exponential.org/2022orl/speakers/speakers-1010.html

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Hear David and Kathryn talk about how Jesus's life with his disciples was spent largely outside the walls of the temple-- not giving sermons but relating to them in real life: eating, drinking, fishing, walking with them. 

How should his life inform the way we look at Christian community?
Hear some practical steps on how we can make a shift in our own communities from institutional to relational.

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One of the world's leading missiologists, Alan Hirsch, comes to us from Australia, explaining how we should question titles but embrace giftings in the church. Learn about the gifting that Christ has given his church, outlined in Eph 4, and a test we can take to help us understand the roles of: apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, teacher. 

Kathryn and Alan discuss how these giftings have a scope way beyond church and ministry staff positions. They also talk about how certain leadership gifts have been elevated in this season of the Western Church, and how we need to elevate, and refuse to quench, all of the gifts... in order to see the future Church flourish.

If you’d like to check out Alan’s book, The Starfish and the Spirit, you can do that here: https://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Spirit-Unleashing-Leadership-Organizations/dp/0310098378

If you’re interested in taking the APEST test, you can do that here: https://5qcentral.com/product/apest-vocational-assessment/

If you’re interested in vocational calling in the marketplace, check out: https://www.mpactq.com/for-leaders

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Our culture in the West is increasingly individualistic, and increasingly lonely. Listen as Kathryn talks with Jack Meckfessel around an antidote... the spiritual family. 

What would it look like to recapture a sense of the church being a family over an institution? 

Jack gives stories from his house church experience in Thailand, and shares what he learned after experiencing the beauty of several models of church. 

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Today Kathryn introduces three shifts that are important for us to consider in the church. This episode introduces the shifts we will talk about during this season: isolation to family, information to transformation, and spectators to participants. We will be reminded that many of these aren't just a shift toward the future, but an echo of the past, as they are informed by the ways of the early church. We will also see how we are being informed by the ways of the church in the global south, where Christianity is growing the fastest. 
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Dwellings Podcast Season 2 is on Future Shifts for the church. In this series we will explore shifts we feel God calling us into during this season. While they feel new to us in the West, they are actually shifts toward the early church, and are in keeping with the ways of the church in the global south where Christianity is growing the fastest.

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The Dwellings Cohort is a 5- month collaborative learning opportunity designed to take you deeper in the mission of building communities centered around the presence of Jesus. We will be joined by the voices of Jennie Allen, Francis Chan, David Legge, and others, either in person or via our interactive Zoom calls. Whether you are involved in a traditional church, a house church, or in some other ministry context, if you are someone who desires to create community around the presence of Jesus, we want you to apply.