Shifting Culture

In this episode, Denny Heiberg shares about his journey from running an institution to becoming a disciple maker that empowers others to become disciple makers. We talk about what it looks like to make Jesus Lord of everything in our life. We also discuss what it's like to disciple grandchildren.

Denny Heiberg is an elder in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church where he pastored Grace at Fort Clarke UMC in Gainesville, FL from 1994-2012. He currently serves with TMS Global as a member of their Ministry CoServe Group focusing upon Discipleship Training and Member Care. Denny also serves on The National Leadership Team as the Director of International Representatives with The Bonhoeffer Project, a discipleship initiative that trains leaders in the global Church to become disciple-making leaders. Denny graduated from Columbia International University with a BA in Biblical Studies and Christian Education. He also earned an MA in Biblical Studies, an M. Div., and a D.Min. from Asbury Seminary. Denny and his wife, Cindy, live in the Nashville, TN area where he serves in their local church developing disciples. His passion is mobilizing the next generations of leaders who will develop disciple-making cultures in their context of ministry.

Denny's Recommendations:
Undistracted by Bob Goff
A Better Way: Make Disciples Wherever Life Happens by Dale Losch

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In this episode Steve Addison speaks about movements, disciple making, identity & calling, and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. As you listen, you will be inspired to be rooted in your identity and empowered to simply make disciples that multiply.

Steve Addison is a catalyst for movements that multiply disciple and churches, everywhere. He is an author, speaker, podcaster, and mentor to movement pioneers.

Steve began his research into Christian movements in the late 1980s while planting a church in Melbourne, Australia. He carried that interest into his Doctor of Ministry with Fuller Seminary.

He is the author of four books on movements:

• The Rise and Fall of Movements: A Roadmap for Leaders (100M 2019)
• Pioneering Movements: Leadership that Multiplies Disciples and Churches (IVP 2015)
• What Jesus Started: Joining the Movement, Changing the World (IVP 2012)
• Movements that Change the World: Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel (IVP 2009)
• Your Part in God’s Plan: 40 Days from Genesis to Revelation (Easter 2021)

Steve and Michelle lead MOVE, a mission agency dedicated to multiplying disciples and churches. Everywhere.

Steve and Michelle live in Melbourne, Australia. They have four children and two and a half grandchildren.

Steve loves walking, historical novels, Shakespeare, anything written by G K Chesterton or C S Lewis, Sunday afternoon naps, watching Australia beat the Poms at cricket, and the Kiwis at Rugby and supporting the Collingwood Football Club.

Steve's Recommendations:
Revelation by Craig Keener

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In this episode, David Garrison discusses the importance of identity and calling and leaving our hands open to following God's leading in our lives. He also dives into church planting movements, movements amongst Muslims, and reaching unreached people groups through global gateway cities.

David Garrison, PhD University of Chicago, is a pioneer in the understanding of Church Planting Movements among unreached people groups. He is the author of several books including "Church Planting Movements" and "A Wind in the House of Islam". Dr. Garrison serves as executive director of Global Gates, a ministry seeking to reach the ends of the earth through global gateway cities.

David's Books:
Church Planting Movements
A Wind in the House of Islam

David's Recommendations:
Hagarism by Patricia Crone
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone
Tom Holland's Youtube Videos on Islam
Jay Smith's Videos on Islam

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Mark DeYmaz talks about diversifying income streams for greater community impact, creating multi-ethnic teams and church, and incarnational missions.

A thought-leading writer and recognized champion of the Multiethnic Church Movement, Mark planted the Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas (mosaicchurch.net) in 2001 where he continues to serve as Directional Leader. In 2004, he co-founded the Mosaix Global Network (mosaix.info), with Dr. George Yancey, today serving as its president and convener of the triennial National Multi-ethnic Church Conference. In 2008, he launched Vine and Village (vineandvillage.org) and remains active on the board of this 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on the spiritual, social, and financial transformation of Little Rock's University District.

Mark has written seven books including his latest, The Coming Revolution in Church Economics (Baker Books, 2019); Disruption: Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community (Thomas Nelson, 2017); and Multiethnic Conversations: an Eight Week Guide to Unity in Your Church (Wesleyan Publishing House, 2016), the first daily devotional, small group curriculum on the subject for people in the pews. His book, Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church (Jossey-Bass, 2007), was a finalist for a Christianity Today Book of the Year Award (2008) and for a Resource of the Year Award (2008) sponsored by Outreach magazine. Other works include, re:MIX: Transitioning Your Church to Living Color (Abingdon, 2016); Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church (formerly Ethnic Blends; Zondervan, 2010, 2013), and the e-Book, Should Pastors Accept or Reject the Homogeneous Unit Principle? (Mosaix Global Network, 2011). In addition to books, he is a contributing editor for Outreach magazine where his column, "Mosaic" appears in each issue. 

He and his wife, Linda, have been married for thirty-two years and reside in Little Rock, AR. Linda is the author of the certified best-seller, Mommy, Please Don't Cry: There Are No Tears in Heaven (Multnomah, 1996), an anointed resource providing hope and comfort for those who grieve the loss of a child. Mark and Linda have four adult children and three grandchildren. 

In 2019, Mark launched an academic partnership with Wheaton College (wheaton.edu/mosaix) through which students seeking to earn an M.A. in Ministry Leadership with an emphasis on establishing healthy multiethnic and economically diverse, socially just, and financially sustainable churches. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte Campus) and at Phoenix Seminary, where he earned a D.Min. in 2007.

Mark's Recommendation:
Beyond Racial Division by George Yancey

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mosaixconference.com

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In this episode, Rowland Smith talks about missional living, contextualizing the gospel, micro church, and the future of the church. It's a great conversation that presents really good ideas to bring about Kingdom flourishing in neighborhoods and cities.

Rowland is National Director for Forge America Missional Training Network, where he gives vision and direction for Forge training and support of their hubs and partners in the United States. He also has a staff position at Pulpit Rock Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he directs missional discipleship and helps oversee The Pando Collective, a micro-church network launched and supported by their church community. Rowland has experience in church-planting, coaching churches in missional culture, and business-as-mission through a coffee shop he and his wife launched as a Kingdom presence in their city. He is a Doctoral Candidate and part-time faculty at Fuller Seminary in areas of missional theology and intercultural studies. Rowland has authored Life Out Loud: Joining Jesus Outside the Walls of the Church, and is the creator and general editor/curator for Red Skies: 10 Essential Conversations Exploring Our Future as the Church, both published through 100M Publishing. He and his wife Kitty Smith have four adult children, one grandchild and an active house with three dogs. They live at the edge of the Rocky Mountains, enjoying both urban, missional living and the outdoors. You can find out more about Rowland and keep up with his work at www.rowlandsmith.net.

Rowland's Recommendation:
ReJesus: Remaking the Church in Our Founder's Image by Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch

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In this episode we have a conversation with J.D. Payne around apostolic imagination, missions, and church planting. 

J. D. Payne serves as professor of Christian Ministry at Samford University.  Prior to this, he was the pastor for church multiplication with The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama.  Before moving to Birmingham, he served for ten years with the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and as an Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism in the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also directed the Center for North American Missions and Church Planting.

Over the years, he has written numerous articles and reviews in the area of missions and evangelism and church growth.  

He is the host of Strike the Match, a podcast that addresses missions, innovation, and leadership.

J. D. speaks frequently for churches, denominations, networks, and mission agencies/societies. Believing that every believer is supposed to be a “fruit-bearing” disciple in a local church, he is passionate about seeing the Body of Christ grow as local congregations work to carry out the Great Commission.

He is married to Sarah, a physician in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with Christ Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama. They have three children:  Hannah, Rachel, and Joel.  He may be contacted at [email protected]

J.D.'s books:
Amazon Author Page
Apostolic Imagination

J.D.'s recommendations:
Effective Intercultural Evangelism by Jay Moon and Bud Simon
Sharing Jesus without Freaking Out by Scott Hildreth
Evangelism in a Skeptical World by Sam Chan

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In this episode, Jessica Schrock-Reingenberg talks about the importance of patience in the Kingdom of God. Patience was a distinctive of the early church that helped it thrive during the Roman Empire. She takes that seed and makes it practical for our daily lives.

Jessica is a pastor, professor, speaker, and business owner, but mostly an "APE." Currently she is the director for the Center for Anabaptist Leadership and Learning at Hesston College. She lives in Excelsior Springs, Missouri with her husband and three children.

Jessica's Recommendations:
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider
Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership by Ruth Haley Burton
The New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen
The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder

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In this episode Dr. Michael Carrion shares about how to engage our neighborhoods long term, empower the marginalized among us, and point to what is good news for the people in front of us.

Rev. Dr. Michael Carrion serves as the Senior Pastor and General Overseer of the Promised Land Covenant Churches located in the North and South Bronx. He also serves as the founding Chairman and Superintendent of the Bronx Academy of Promise K-8 Charter School in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx and the Regional Coach for Church Planting and Development for the East Coast Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church,assisting with community and regional mapping, the discernment and assessment process of identifying and training new church planters in the NY/NJ areas.

Rev. Carrion has received national recognition and awards from Government, Community Based Organizations, Faith Based Organizations in several contexts throughout the Metro New York & New Jersey areas. Rev. Carrion was nominated and acknowledged as the Latino JSEC Community Champion for the poor – A United States Department of Labor achievement award for his civil rights efforts and community development contributions in bettering the Bronx community.

Serving as the VP of Church Planting and Leadership Development at CTC, Michael oversees the NYC team prayerfully and discerningly recruiting, training and resourcing church planters called to plant healthy missional churches in the five boroughs of NYC. Michael has successfully planted several churches and charter schools across the South Bronx. He is a social justice activist, community organizer who has been nationally recognized for his work among the poor across the city. Prior to working with CTC, Michael held appointments with the city of New York HRA/CAS and the Fedcap Group as the Senior Director of Workforce Development. As well as a prior role as the Deputy Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS).

Rev. Carrion has been married to his wife Elizabeth for over 30 years. Pastor Mike and his wife love spending time together with their 5 adult children Michael, Matthew, Tirza, Joshua and Tiffany, 2 granddaughters, 1 grandson, son-in-law Demar, and 3 pitbull dogs.

Michael's Recommendations:
To You All Hearts are Open: Revitalizing the Church's Pattern of Asking God
The New City Catechism by Kathy Keller
Spirit and Sacrament by Andrew Wilson

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In this episode Carey Sims shares her journey towards embodying faith and helping others create space to hear from and discern the voice of God. From art to business to ministry and family, she helps create places for faith to be caught and lived out.

Carey Sims serves as director of The Center for Faith and Leadership (Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA) where she and her husband, Gannon, are training and equipping the next generation of leaders through faith formation and leadership development. 

As the founder of Created Space (www.createdspace.org) Carey offers short courses on listening and discernment in a collaborative learning environment. Created Space is for business and ministry leaders on the edge of a pivot or transition who desire to discover next steps in the context of community.

An entrepreneur and pioneering ministry leader with 25 years of experience, Carey is particularly interested in the intersection between theology and economics and how the church can make social impact while proclaiming the gospel. A spiritual director and ICF certified coach, she delights in helping people achieve their goals and develop practices that deepen and enliven their friendship with God. 

She holds the MBA from Regent University and the M.Div. from Duke University.

Carey's Recommendations:
The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks
Following Jesus: Finding our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety by Henri Nouwen and Gabrielle Earnshaw

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In this episode Dr. Scott Rodin shares about having a one Kingdom mentality where all of life is God's and we are stewards of that life in His Kingdom. The conversation hits on this and topics of leadership, fundraising, organizational change, and culture impact. 

Over the past thirty-eight years Scott Rodin has helped hundreds of organizations improve their effectiveness in leadership, fund development, strategic planning and board development. His work has impacted individuals, ministries and churches in the U.S., Canada, Middle East, Great Britain, China, Philippines and Australia. 

Dr. Rodin is Senior Consultant/Chief Strategy Officer for The Focus Group. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Association of Biblical Higher Education and as board chair for ChinaSource. 

Dr. Rodin holds Master of Theology and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Systematic Theology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He’s written over fourteen books and speaks regularly at conferences, retreats and professional development events.

thestewardsjourney.com

Scott's Recommendation:
The Steward Declaration

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