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What is the role of the church in identifying members of the Kingdom of God, and what does that mean practically becoming a church member? Paul & Dave dig into some big questions and wrestle with the balance of autonomy, commitment, and community as they relate to membership.

What does it mean to engage in Adoptive Ministry, and how do we navigate our difference and similarities across generations? Do young people really want to talk to people their parents and grandparents age, and how do we do that in a warm and friendly way? Dagmar joins the podcast this week and helps us all understand why we should embrace an adoptive church culture and how we can start to do it.

What things do we need to be unified about, and how to we hold that tension of unity within diversity of our local church? What did Jesus mean when he gave us a new command to love one another? Paul and Dave chat about unity; why it's significant, hard, and possible.

Wy is membership a difficult thing to talk about, and doesn't participating regularly in the church get me to the same spot? Church membership has all kinds of challenges and potential pitfalls, but it's helpful to understand who we are as individuals and as the body. Paul and Dave start the conversation around membership, and welcome any of your questions as we continue in the weeks ahead.

How would Jesus' teaching on bread in John 6 have been received to the original crowd, and how do we understand it now? Why is it good to think about eternity and how do we deal with the weirdness of the language eating flesh and drinking blood? Paul and Dave wrap up our In Focus series and dive into this key teaching that we need to keep central.

How is it better that the Spirit is with us that Jesus himself, and how do ask the right question when it comes to the power of the Spirit at work in us? Paul and Dave chat about the Spirit of truth and unity, the importance of God's presence, and what it looks like for all of us to take the next step.

How does praying in Jesus' name make a difference? How can we live in the tension of praying God's will and our desires, and should we be more bold in our prayers? Paul and Dave jump back in after a brief hiatus as we explore how resurrection puts Jesus' teachings in focus.

How does the passage we hear at every wedding - 1 Corinthains 13 - shape our understanding of community? How do we join into the work that God is doing and choose to love one another the convenience that is so easy in our world today? Paul and Dave wrap our our fully human series and wrestle with the good tensions of loving each other in our church community.

What do technology and money have in common, and how can they diminish our call to be fully human? Chris and Dave follow up on this Sunday's message and talk about how we can reflect on how we are serving Mammon or God, and how we can take steps towards using instruments more and devices less as we practice who God has created us to be.

Does our technology really know us, and what does it mean that God fully knowns us? Paul and Dave dive into our new series on what it is to be fully human, why it has a huge impact on how we understand and practice community, and why being known by God is the best starting point.