RePlacing Church: Local Spirituality, Innovative Community & Social Change with Ben Katt

In this episode, I explore the Prophet as "Activist" by looking at the story of Tabitha from the early church and identifying the three main practices of Activists as they pursue restoration in the neighborhood.

Series Summary: In Ephesians 4, the Apostle Paul mentions 5 gifts for the church - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher (APEST). Over the past decade of missional church and church planting conversations, Alan Hirsch, Mike Breen, J.R. Woodward and others have done some good work towards expanding our understanding of these "Ministries," "Equippers," or "Intelligences." But what do we learn about these gifts when we replace APEST, when we explore what these 5 gifts look like in the neighborhood? 

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

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Related Episodes:

Episode 36: The Neighborhood Restorers (RePlacing APEST, 1 of 6)

Episode 37: Apostle as Cultivator | The Neighborhood Restorers (RePlacing APEST, 2 of 6)

Additional Resources:

Creating a Missional Culture by J.R. Woodward

The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch

Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen

 

 

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" by Mercir, "Post" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.

In this episode, I explore the Apostle as "Cultivator" by looking at the story of Priscilla and Aquila from the early church and identifying the three main practices of Cultivators as they pursue restoration in the neighborhood.

Series Summary: In Ephesians 4, the Apostle Paul mentions 5 gifts for the church - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher (APEST). Over the past decade of missional church and church planting conversations, Alan Hirsch, Mike Breen, J.R. Woodward and others have done some good work towards expanding our understanding of these "Ministries," "Equippers," or "Intelligences." But what do we learn about these gifts when we replace APEST, when we explore what these 5 gifts look like in the neighborhood? 

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

*Get your free RePlacing Church Resource List, a guide to being and becoming church in the neighborhood!

Related Episodes:

Episode 36: The Neighborhood Restorers (RePlacing APEST, 1 of 6)

Additional Resources:

Creating a Missional Culture by J.R. Woodward

The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch

Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen

 

 

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right," "The Beach," "Plumes" by Mercir. Used with Permission.

In Ephesians 4, the Apostle Paul mentions 5 gifts for the church - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher (APEST). Over the past decade of missional church and church planting conversations, Alan Hirsch, Mike Breen, J.R. Woodward and others have done some good work towards expanding our understanding of these "Ministries," "Equippers," or "Intelligences." But what do we learn about these gifts when we replace APEST, when we explore what these 5 gifts look like in the neighborhood? In this episode, the first in a six-part series, I explore WHY these 5 categories matter for being and becoming church in the neighborhood, HOW you get these gifts, and WHAT their ultimate purpose is.

*Get your free RePlacing Church Resource List, a guide to being and becoming church in the neighborhood!

Additional Resources:

Creating a Missional Culture by J.R. Woodward

The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch

Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen

 

 

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" by Mercir. Used with Permission.

Chris Heuertz joins me to talk about contemplative activism and community, including:

The one thing church planters need to know when starting a community

Why solitude, silence, and stillness are so critical for our world right now

Why some people are surrounded by community but still so lonely

Why some Christians are scared of contemplative practice

What Christian organizations need to learn about handling transitions

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

Chris Heuertz, along with his wife, Phileena, is a founding partner of Gravity, a center for contemplative activism based in Omaha, Nebraska that helps people “to do good better” by hosting a weekly prayer sit, leading contemplative retreats and pilgrimages, providing spiritual direction, and facilitating Enneagram consultations. Prior to starting Gravity, the Heuertzes started and served for 20 years with Word Made Flesh, a non-profit organization that extends love and care to the most vulnerable in some of the world’s poorest slums, red light areas, and places of intense human suffering. Chris is the author of Unexpected Gifts: Discovering the Way of Community, which explores how the challenges of community, such as betrayal, failure, and doubt, can actually become unexpected gifts.

 

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In this episode, I explore the fifth of the Five Signs of the Parish Movement, “Linking Across Parishes,” by talking about what the Apostle Paul teaches us about linking, why linking is a spiritual discipline, and three ways neighborhood church expressions can practice linking across parishes.

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

*Check out the RePlacing Church #NeighborhoodsForDays Odyssey, learning from 30 neighborhoods in 30 days.

 

Series Summary: Parish church expressions are emerging in neighborhoods everywhere. Whatever they are called - neighborhood church plants, missional communities, neomonastic communities, faith-based social enterprises - these diverse expressions seem to exhibit five common signs as they join God’s renewal in their particular places. In this five part series, I explore the Five Signs of the Parish Movement:

Centering on Christ

Inhabiting Our Parish

Gathering to Remember

Collaborating for God’s Renewal

Linking Across Parishes

Linking Across Parishes: Actively connecting with other Christian communities across parishes regionally and globally, we grow in mutual learning, friendship, and life giving partnership.

 

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Katelyn Beaty joins me to talk about themes from her new book about women and work, A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home and the World, and many other topics including:

a biblical vision for women's work in the world 

the "Mommy Wars"

privilege and vocation 

how (what tend to be) distinctly female ways of leadership can bring healing to a divided world 

why the phenomena of unaccountable, charismatic speakers as lead pastors needs to be replaced 

what she thinks about feminine pronouns for God

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

*Learn from the RePLACING CHURCH #NeighborhoodsForDays Odyssey

 

Katelyn Beaty is the print managing editor of Christianity Today, where she is the first woman to serve in that role. She cofounded Her.meneutics, a site providing news and culturally commentary from evangelical women. Katelyn is the author of A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home and the World. She resides outside of Chicago where she participates in a local Anglican church.

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Katelyn Beaty is the print managing editor of Christianity Today, where she is the first woman to serve in that role. She cofounded Her.meneutics, a site providing news and culturally commentary from evangelical women. Katelyn is the author of A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home and the World. She resides outside of Chicago where she participates in a local Anglican church.

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Noel Castellanos joins me to talk about what Christian community development is and his journey into it, what Ezra and Nehemiah teach us about neighborhood leadership and rebuilding neighborhoods, why planting Sunday-centered churches isn’t enough, what his greatest concerns are for young leaders who care about justice, and how his Chicago neighborhood and the Camino de Santiago opened his eyes to the struggle of immigrants.

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

*Learn from 30 neighborhoods in 30 days by following the RePlacing Church #NeighborhoodsForDays Odyssey*

Noel Castellanos is the Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA). He has lived in the Little Village in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood for 25 years. He is the author of Where the Cross Meets the Street: What happens to the neighborhood when God is at the center.

-CCDA Conference in LA, August 31 - September 3

-El Camino del Inmigrante

 

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In this episode, I explore Sign #4 of the Five Signs of the Parish Movement, “Collaborating for God’s Renewal,” by talking about why collaboration is so desperately needed in the world right now, examining a story about King David that teaches how not to collaborate, and outlining the three critical steps towards collaboration in the neighborhood.

 *Originally posted at theV3movement.org

 *Learn from 30 neighborhoods in 30 days by following the RePlacing Church #NeighborhoodsForDays Odyssey

 

Series Summary: Parish church expressions are emerging in neighborhoods everywhere. Whatever they are called - neighborhood church plants, missional communities, neomonastic communities, faith-based social enterprises - these diverse expressions seem to exhibit five common signs as they join God’s renewal in their particular places. In this five part series, I explore the Five Signs of the Parish Movement:

Centering on Christ

Inhabiting Our Parish

Gathering to Remember

Collaborating for God’s Renewal

Linking Across Parishes

Collaborating for God’s Renewal: Joining God’s renewal within the broken systems of our world, we seek to reconcile fractured relationships and celebrate differences by collaborating across cultural barriers and learning to live in solidarity with those in need.

 

Related Episodes:

Episode 22: Reesheda Graham-Washington & Community Transformation | Social Entrepreneur & Community Developer

Episode 25: Dee Yaccino & Social Capital | Co-Director of Del Camino Connection

 

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Series Summary: Parish church expressions are emerging in neighborhoods everywhere. Whatever they are called - neighborhood church plants, missional communities, neomonastic communities, faith-based social enterprises - these diverse expressions seem to exhibit five common signs as they join God’s renewal in their particular places. In this five part series, I explore the Five Signs of the Parish Movement:

Collaborating for God’s Renewal: Joining God’s renewal within the broken systems of our world, we seek to reconcile fractured relationships and celebrate differences by collaborating across cultural barriers and learning to live in solidarity with those in need.