Episode 8: How Do I Roll for Discipleship?

What happens when you drop four pastors into a fantasy world where no one has ever heard of Jesus? We sit down with Roll for Joy's Steward of Lore, Pastor Ben Loven, to talk about his actual play podcast The Lore of Jesus: Roll for Discipleship — where church council members get pulled through a portal, wrestle with a world of elemental "essences" (including one of pure Umami), and stumble into the deepest questions of faith.

Ben shares how a table of pastors built discipleship into the dice itself, why worship showed up in the roleplay, how an unplanned surrender on a magical lighthouse rewrote an entire season's ending, and the grief episode that sent him straight to a sleeve of Oreos afterward. Plus: a magic item called the Bad News Bears, a deep dive into everyone's favorite stereotypical church characters, and a listener question about turning a gaming hobby into real ministry.