One Right Church

In this encore episode, we talk about authority. Where do church leaders get their authority? This question is central to One Right Church. Can someone question that authority? Does the position of a church leader deserve blind obedience? We hope this is helpful and challenging.

Mark initially thought it would be great to simply add Jesus to his life and not change anything else. However, you can't just add Jesus and expect nothing to change.

In this encore episode, we discuss the difference between adding Jesus to your life and surrendering your life to Him.

In this encore episode, we discuss whether being saved by grace sounds too good to be true. If you don't think it is too good to be true, you underestimate grace! Grace is amazing. On the other hand, if you have to do good works to earn our salvation, how do we know if we’ve done enough? If it depends on you, how good must you be to have hope of salvation? These are important questions.

In this encore episode, Mark observes that the one right church he grew up in has changed. This creates a dilemma. If it was the one right church when it began, can it change? If it was right before, can it change and still be right? “Was it right then, or is it right now?” Both can’t be true. This question is more important than it appears at first.

What does it mean to be a “worldly person”? The prospect of being labeled "worldly" was very real. It happened for reasons that would surprise you. In this encore episode, we discuss how the word "worldly" was used and how that definition changed over time.

This encore episode is one of our favorites. Mark’s wife, Cindy, joins us to share part of her story. Years after having nothing to do with her dad, she experiences a glorious reconciliation with him. Reconciliation and forgiveness are always possible. There is always hope that relationships can be healed!

In this encore episode, Mark answers the two most common questions people ask him:  What made you stay? What made you leave?

Nobody likes to be rejected. It is also unhappy to be the person who does the rejecting. This week Mark talks about the unnecessary pain that everyone feels when someone leaves the one right church. Mark has had the unique experience of having been the person who rejects family members and has been rejected himself.

In this episode, Mark discusses the fear he experienced as he began to look for another church. He had been told he was in the "right church." How could the next church also be right? Did it need to be? Does every church think it is the right church?

In this episode, we talk about Mark's journey out of the Followers of Christ. As with most journeys, it was not a straight line. It took time and several difficult decisions.