On this podcast, we have talked a lot about the importance of building a missional culture within the church but the question is this: how do you know if you truly have a missional culture? It’s easy to mistake the activity of committed people for missional living, but they are not synonymous. In today’s episode, we discuss the markers of a true missional culture. 

One of the challenging things we face as missional people is how we engage our current culture that is increasingly more secular. Andy Crouch addresses this in his book, “Culture Making”, where he identifies the four ways Christians have typically responded to culture, which has produced cultural wars. The questions is as God’s missional people how do we engage our harvest field without feeling like we’re compromising. 

One of the challenging things we face as missional people is how we engage our current culture that is increasingly more secular. Andy Crouch addresses this in his book, “Culture Making”, where he identifies the four ways Christians have typically responded to culture, which has produced cultural wards. The questions is as God’s missional people how do we engage our harvest field without feeling like we’re compromising. 

Since we started this journey in 2016, one of the amazing things we have discovered is that there is clearly a move of the Holy Ghost that is drawing people into apostolic discipleship and multiplication. Everywhere we go we encounter people who have been on a similar journey and who are hungry to see God do even more than what we have experienced. It is clear that this is not just a passing fad or a buzzword but a movement led by the Holy Ghost. 

As we’ve discussed before the gospel of Jesus is not contrarian but it is confrontational. In a world that has become increasingly sensitive and often views speech and beliefs as violence, how do we effectively present the message of Jesus and discipleship in a way that brings about real transformation in people’s lives? That’s our topic for today. 

Today we are discussing how the decentralization of the mission is necessary for the church to reach the world on a scale that equals the great challenge before us.

It is possible to do spiritual things such as the lifestyle we live or doing the mission and still have motives that are driven by personal affirmation. If we don’t allow Jesus to change what we care about, we can easily be driven by perceived measures of success in every area of our life including the mission. Today we discuss this tension about where we get our affirmation from and how that drives who we are and what we do for the Kingdom of God. 

On today’s episode, we are very excited to interview Pastor Jay Jones, who is a church planter, a visionary, a next-level thinker, and a multiplication leader. In 2000, Jay and his wife Angela launched The Pentecostals in Kentwood, MI which is a thriving apostolic movement with another campus in Burton Heights. He also currently serves as the District Secretary for the UPCI Michigan District. You are going to be blessed today as we discuss his amazing journey from church planter to leading a multiplication movement.