Doug and Kyle are back this week with three more questions. See them below or follow the links at the bottom of our description for more info or to ask your own question.

1. Is murder sin? If so, why?

2. How does Living Springs Church disciple people? What is the process? Where does it start? How does it continue? What is the aim?

3. After thinking about Jesus, taking the time to connect his mother with John and vice versa, as mother and son, I wondered why He did it—Mary had other sons, including James, who would end up following Jesus’ teachings? But then I wondered whether Jesus knew his family, including his mother, needed the discipleship of someone like John, who could help her see why Jesus had to die. Perhaps it was through this that James came to understand and become a leader(?)

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We are back this week with some AER that took the whole episode. We discuss models of discipleship

1. It seemed to me in the nov 27th podcast that your basic answer to the question re connection and helping others etc. Was: jesus' way is different than how you live and you need to help people. Go figure it out yourself as to how you can include/help people in your life and get on with it! That doesn't strike me as how Jesus' or the apostles did it. Jesus trained 12 men and had another 100 or so around him all the time who were taking in the training as they went along. So how can the church model this? What intentional training are we providing for core leaders on how to live out the Jesus way, and what groups are actively being developed so more people can grow with those leaders? Clubs are good for connection but there is no training /mentoring happening there. Would LS consider some form of training / Mentoring for those interested in learning the more proactive way of Jesus?

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The guys are on a staff retreat! But we couldn't leave you without an episode. Kyle, Blake, and Doug discuss the following questions:

1. When in John 9, the disciples asked Jesus who had caused a man to be born blind, how could they presume that it might have been the man that had sinned if he was born that way? Did they think that it was possible for God to pre-determine whether someone was going to be sinful? I don’t understand their thinking behind this, but wonder if I’m missing something.

And even more important question in John 9. It says, and talking about spiritual faith:

“Some Pharisees overheard him and said, “Does that mean you’re calling us blind?”

41 Jesus said, “If you were really blind, you would be blameless, but since you claim to see everything so well, you’re accountable for every fault and failure.”

Wouldn’t this mean that those who are spiritually blind are not at blame? If they don’t recognize God, are they blameless?

2. I can’t seem to get off of John 10. Verse 34 Jesus tells us that in the Psalms (82:6), God calls us gods. That is strange enough, but it brings up the question to me, what is the definition of a god?

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In this weeks episode pastors Doug, Blake, and Kyle discuss the following, and we learn Pastor Doug has strong opinions on soup..

1:42 into episode, Resource Bema Season 3

Is marriage after divorce ok, biblically speaking?

26:56 into episode, Resource Book: The Benedict Option

Recently, I was helping a single mom look after her kids after school so she could work late. She was grateful and said that while many others know her situation, nobody else has offered help. This shocks and saddens me. We’re supposed to be the church and this is where I think “how can this happen”, “we should all be more willing to be involved in each other’s lives”… BUT I recognize this is easy for me to say because I’m an extrovert, I love the idea of close-knit community, I’m willing to disrupt our family rhythms for the sake of helping someone, that's my image of honouring christ. What about people who aren’t like me though? I want to tell others to follow my example and love others by giving up their time to show love to each other, but can I really ask this of say an introvert, or perhaps someone deeply aware of their family’s need for regular rhythm. Maybe that's their way of honouring christ. There are likely people out there looking at me and saying the same “I wish they would follow my example” 

… so my question is: As a people varied in gifting and valuing different things, how do we encourage the church to be the church? How do we spur on one another towards love and good deeds, but still respect each other’s strengths and gifts and also respect each other’s limitations?

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In this weeks episode, Pastors Kyle, Blake, and Doug discuss the following:

1. AER Hi there some aEr for you. Just listened to the episode from this week about Christian nationalism and politics. Wondering if you guys all agree that church and state should be kept separate

2. What do you think is the significance of Jesus ’ eyes being like blazing fire and feet being like burnished bronze in revelation 2:18

3. This might be most relevant to Blake given history in youth ministry but also interested in all perspectives! I recently listened to an episode where you gave some book recommendation (working through them! Awesome!). Wondering if you could recommend some readings specific to teens that will help them grow in their faith and understand how to function as a Christian young person in a complicated culture?

In this weeks episode, Pastors Kyle, Blake, and Doug discuss the following:

1:37 into episode

Last week there was a question about the chosen people of God. How does the 144,000 sealed Israelites from Revelation 7 fit into this question

6:18 into episode

AER afrter thinking about Jesus, taking the time to connect his mother with John and vice versa, as mother and son, I wondered why He did it—Mary had other sons, including James, who would end up following Jesus’ teachings? But then I wondered whether Jesus knew his family, including his mother, needed the discipleship of someone like John, who could help her see why Jesus had to die. Perhaps it was through this that James came to understand and become a leader(?

It feel like the gospel of Luke negates the story of the magi, and Jesus’ family moving to Egypt since “ Every year Jesus’ parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Feast of Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up as they always did for the Feast. ”. How could they travel from Egypt or risk Herod.?

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with everything happening politically in both Canada and the states, do you think it will push people away from christianity? mainly with the right wing "christian nationalism" movements, do you think it would turn new or newer followers of Jesus away

36:02 into episode

Most jobs are the kind of thing where you clock in and clock out, meaning the hours outside of work are focused on non-work things. Is that the same with being a pastor? Are you able to “clock out”, or is your pastor hat always on?  In addition, how do you develop boundaries in the role? Are you always “on call”?

Resources:

- Jesus Contradicted

-Misleading Scripture through western eyes

-The Jesus Way by Eugene Peterson

In this weeks episode, Pastors Kyle, Blake, and Doug discuss the following:

4:16 into the episode. Is God outside of time (able to be move and act in the past and future as well) or is he inside of time, but happens to know our whole past and our future and Moves acts in the present to impact our future? One implication might be, can I pray for a past event (like, remembering on Wednesday to pray for a friend that was nervous about his surgery on Monday for example)?

23:03 into the episode Why did God choose a ‘chosen ‘ people group (ie. The Jews) ?

31:23 into episode . I don’t really understand when, in Matthew 12:27, Jesus says about God “He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” The brothers in the story supposedly go to heaven. Is God no longer their God? What is Jesus saying?

36:09 into episode How much weight or meaning should we ascribe to our dreams? Can we interpret them, and discern which dreams should actually be interpreted?

Resources:

Time and Eternity by William Lane Craig

BEMA Podcast season one

In this bonus episode, Pastor Kyle brings us a long form teaching on Genesis 1&2 titled In the Beginning

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In this weeks episode of Inverted Orthodoxy, Pastors Kyle, Blake, and Doug discuss the following questions:

2:09 into episode Thank you for your answer on

love,how it differentiates from believers to unbelievers.What I had not

ever thought of was as a believer I am to love the unlovable, which can be

much tougher. In the Bible it does state that we are to not to love only

people that love us.

2:44 into the episode AER regarding love in heaven: In Mark: Jesus said, “You’re way off base, and here’s why: One, you don’t know what God said; two, you don’t know how God works. After the dead are raised up, we’re past the marriage business. As it is with angels now, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God. I know you mentioned we would fully love one another, but this seems to indicate a step beyond that.

38:24 into episode July 5 - Do you think that homosexuality is a sin? (note for Blake: we've referenced this in episodes: 160, 170, 209, 214, 231, 256, 276, 296, 297,310,)

I’m reading the beginning of Joshua and God seems to regularly give very specific instructions to Joshua/the people of Isreal. Why does god not give us the same regular, specific direction? Or is it that we don’t hear him? What would our lives be like if we did hear and respond to god like the Israelites?

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In this weeks episode of Inverted Orthodoxy, the pastors discuss the following:

Kyle, on Sunday you preached on John 17 and one of the things you talked about was "oneness" and how we should become one with other believers and not just with God (“I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one."). I'm curious about the the original Greek on the word "one" in that verse (both references) and whether it is the same as the "one" used in Mark 10 in reference to marriage where "two shall become one" is referenced. If it is the same word in all three uses, then how or why does the "oneness" of marriage differ from the "oneness" referred to in John 17 with all believers or with God?

Why did Jesus say, of Jairus’ daughter, “this child isn’t dead; she’s merely sleeping “? Was Jesus being sarcastic or lying, or do you believe there is a state of non-breathing where one is not really dead?

Is it enough as Christians just to love, forgive, live like Jesus to want people to want Jesus as their personal savior? Many non Christians live their lives like this so is there any difference?

Does Jesus not say go out and make disciples?

At the start of many shows you say that you will answer the questions that are sent in, and then say that you maybe try to answer them. Would it be better to say you discuss the questions that are posed, then You don’t have to come up with an answer to them?

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