The Back to One Podcast

In their last episode, CJ and Riley recap their favorite parts of season one. They share highlights and impact statements that they learned through interviews and through the scriptures. Throughout the conversation the focus on the power of Jesus to unify his church, and the sacrifice it takes to truly follow Jesus is emphasized. Thanks for listening to the final episode of the season. The amount of support and love we have gotten is overwhelming.

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In this episode, CJ and Riley interview Karin Peabody, a church planter from Tacoma WA at New Day, about how trauma impacts the church. Throughout their conversation, they focus on Jesus modeling true self-care, why Christians have struggled with the world's concept of self-care, and how the church can be a place where we are all vulnerable, healing, and growing together. Find out more about BackToOne on our website https://backtoonepodcast.com/  Follow us on Instagram @backto.one  We welcome your feedback and questions email us at [email protected] or DM us on Instagram.

CJ and Riley have a conversation with Sweetpea Egge about the dangerous power that comes from your identity being grounded in Christ. Throughout our conversation, we learn about how as life changes, so does our identity, leading us to need something to ground us. Also, we find that experiencing Jesus's love is the best way to understand who we are, and as we experience his love we become dangerous in displaying it to the world around us. 

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Riley CJ and Xandra continue the conversation on pursuing unity by focusing on patience and bearing with one another love. Throughout the conversation, they talk about the difference between biblical patience and passivity, why we need to bear with one another in our differences and hurts, and how patience is key to fostering unity in the church.

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CJ and Riley continue interviewing Dr. Paul Seungoh Chung about aiming higher than tolerance. In our discussion, we talk about the incarnation model, how Jesus is at the crossroads of differing worldviews, and how this shapes how we interact with others. 

Find Dr. Paul's book Here and find Dr. Paul's podcast by searching for "What do you mean God speaks?" on any major listening platform.

CJ and Riley interview Dr. Paul Seungoh Chung, author of God at the Crossroads of Worldviews and host of the podcast What do you mean God Speaks? In our discussion, we learn about why Dr. Chung started his podcast, why the church should aim higher than tolerance, and how we can learn to disagree fruitfully. 

Find Dr. Paul's book Here and find Dr. Paul's podcast by searching for "What do you mean God speaks?" on any major listening platform.

Riley and CJ continue the series Pursuing Unity; they discuss the Church's call to gentleness, how Jesus emulates gentleness, and why it is a critical part of unifying all things in heaven and on earth.

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CJ and Riley have a conversation with Pastor Mike Egge of Kairos Tacoma about why the Church should look like healthy family. We discuss some of the challenges we face in making Church reflect family, the values scripture calls us to have as a family of faith, and how church gatherings might better model those values. 

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In the first episode of our series, Pursuing Unity, Riley and CJ discuss the importance of humility as the starting place for having a unified church. Throughout our discussion we address the March 16th shooting, explain our thinking behind the series, and look to Christ as our example of humility.