Listen in to the third session of our 2024 conference featuring our main speaker, JR Vassar. JR Vassar (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Church at the Cross in Grapevine, Texas. From 2005 to 2013, he served as the founding and lead pastor of Apostles Church in New York City. JR and his wife, Ginger, have three children. He is the author of Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More.

Listen in to the second session of our 2024 conference featuring our main speaker, JR Vassar. JR Vassar (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Church at the Cross in Grapevine, Texas. From 2005 to 2013, he served as the founding and lead pastor of Apostles Church in New York City. JR and his wife, Ginger, have three children. He is the author of Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More.

Listen in to the first session of our 2024 conference featuring our main speaker, JR Vassar. JR Vassar (ThM, Dallas Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Church at the Cross in Grapevine, Texas. From 2005 to 2013, he served as the founding and lead pastor of Apostles Church in New York City. JR and his wife, Ginger, have three children. He is the author of Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More.

Jordan Elder, Ky Martin, Jeremy Buck, and Justin Smith  discuss the tenth of ten health metrics for a healthy church: Globally-Engaged. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.

From beginning to end, creation to new creation, God’s plan has always been the redemption of the nations. From every tribe, tongue, and nation, God is forming one people united in the hope of Jesus’ death and resurrection. One of our hopes as a Network is that our churches would share God’s heart for all nations, not just locally but globally, and actively participate in the gospel getting to the ends of the earth.

 Guest: Ky Martin, Jeremy Buck, and Justin Smith 

Jordan Elder, David Ritchie, Chris Cummings, and Dusty Thompson discuss the ninth of ten health metrics for a healthy church: Leader-Developing. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.

One great theme of the Bible is multiplication. From the call to Adam and Eve to the promise to Abraham, to Jesus’ command to make disciples, to the word of God multiplying as the message of Jesus broke into the hearts of Jews and Gentiles, God has always been about multiplication. In light of this, it’s clear that healthy churches multiply disciples, and multiplying disciples leads to multiplying churches.

Resource: https://storage2.snappages.site/P87582/assets/files/Multiplication-Graphic-Updated-April-202-70.pdf

Brandon Barker, Jason Hatch, and Dave Bruskas discuss the eighth of ten health metrics for a healthy church: Leader-Developing. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.

Much of the Old Testament is the story of Israel rising and falling with her leaders. Jesus proved to be the Leader God’s people had been waiting for, and the New Testament is full of examples of the importance of faithful leadership. The priority and necessity of leadership are inescapable in the Bible. Healthy churches understand that sharing the leadership load is necessary and commit time and ample resources to train and develop new leaders.  

Brandon Barker is the executive director of the Redeemer Network.
Jason Hatch is the lead pastor at Redeemer in Midland, Texas.
Dave Bruskas serves the Redeemer Network with pastoral and leadership coaching.

Jordan Elder, Joe Guenther, and Ricky Garzon discuss a healthy church's seventh of ten health metrics: Disciple-Making. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.

Being a disciple of Jesus means two things; the gospel has changed your life, and you are in a dynamic relationship with Jesus, progressing in your walk with him. Disciple-making churches are committed to both; leading people to Jesus and helping them learn to follow him. In a healthy church, the making and maturing of disciples are prioritized over gathering crowds, shaping how they organize their life together.

Joe Guenther is a pastor and elder at Redeemer Hutto.
Ricky Garzon is the lead pastor at Redeemer Borger.
Jordan Elder is the lead pastor at Redeemer in Round Rock.

Jordan Elder, Paden Behrens, JR Cochran, and Sarah McLean discuss a healthy church's sixth of ten health metrics: City-Reaching. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.

The polis (translated city and town) is missionally strategic and packed with theological meaning in the New Testament. Used 70 times in Acts and Revelation, cities and towns are at the heart of gospel expansion and God’s language for the world to come. Thus, a city-reaching church is holistically engaged, meeting its neighbors' physical, mental, emotional, and, most importantly, spiritual needs.

Sarah McLean is the We Love Abilene Director at the Well in Abilene, Texas.
J.R. Cochran is the lead pastor at the Well in Abilene, Texas.
Paden Behrens is the lead pastor at Redeemer Brady.
Jordan Elder is the lead pastor at Redeemer in Round Rock.

Show Note Resources:

Redeemer Network’s 10 Health Metrics 

Jordan Elder, Robert Livingston, and J. R. Favela discuss a healthy church's fifth of ten health metrics: Holy Spirit-Empowered. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.

The church is redeemed by Jesus’ blood and sealed by the Spirit, assuring Christians of their salvation. A healthy church rests in this assurance while recognizing the necessity of the empowering work of the Spirit for all of life. As a result, a church that is intentionally dependent on the Holy Spirit has a spiritual vibrancy in worship, richness of prayer, love, joy, humility, unity, selflessness, holiness, and reverence for the scriptures.

Robert Livingston serves as the lead pastor at Redeemer Georgetown.
J.R. Favela serves as the lead pastor at Citylight Amarillo. 
Jordan Elder serves as the lead pastor at Redeemer in Round Rock.

Show Notes:
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Showing the Presence by D. A. Carson

Brandon Barker, Cody McMurray, and Jordan Elder discuss the fourth of ten health metrics of a healthy church: Deacon-Supported. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.

With Jesus as the True Servant, God has given his church deacons to support the elders and the church in caring for the church’s needs. Deacons are faithful and mature Christians who free up the elders to focus on the ministry of the word and prayer. In doing so, they are empowering the church for maturity and mission.

Brandon Barker serves as the executive director of the Redeemer Network.
Cody McMurray serves as the lead pastor at Redeemer Church in Wichita Falls. 
Jordan Elder is the pastor of preaching and vision and an elder at Redeemer Church in Round Rock, Texas, and serves as the Redeemer Network Director.

Show Note Resources:

1. Redeemer Network’s 10 Health Metrics 
2. The Deacon Development Redeemer Round Rock 
3. Redeemer Round Rock Website
4. Redeemer Wichita Falls Website
5. Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons, 9 Marks