The City Table

The City Table

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The City Table episodes

  • National Citizenship or Heavenly Citizenship
    Some of us may be experiencing cultural schizophrenia - are we citizens of our nations’ agenda or citizens of heaven’s agenda - or both? The church of Jesus seems fragmented along political lines. Is this God’s plan?. How do we make Jesus king of the church again - the one who is ruling now over government authorities while having defeated the powers of darkness. How do we participate in the New Creation as God’s people, tasked to bring heaven’s will to earth’s chaos? Does our primary allegiance lie with the flag or the cross, and how does that play out in our workplaces, neighborhoods and in our cities?
    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.
    43 min
  • Exiles and Unity in the Church
    We use the word “unity” often in speaking of the church in the city, but are we truly unified, and around what? How do we become unifiers when so much of the church is disenfranchised from each other? In this episode we first explore what the word “church” meant to the apostles in the First century, and who exactly was to be demonstrating “unity in Christ. In our lifetimes so many have left the “organized” church; why is that and what can be done to see the “exiles” united with the family of God? Repairing the breach in our walls is essential for each of us in order to see the church become a “culture-changer” in the city again.
    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.
    41 min
  • Family Mutuality #4 : Mutual Mission
    What does the reformation of the Church look like if we are going to be a family rather than an institutional model? Rounding out our Mutualities series we embrace our Gospel identity as partners in prayer who find a mutual mission as we follow the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a “missionary Spirit” who is sending us into creation as ambassadors to reconcile creation back to original design, what are the questions that will help us identify and engage the mission God is inviting each of us into?
    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.
    38 min
  • Family Mutuality #2 & 3 : Mutual Rhythm & Support
    Continuing our exploration of the Family Mutualities, what we share in common together as the church, we re-orient ourselves around a Mutual Rhythm and Mutual Support. Mutual Rhythm is our agreed upon commitment as a family to a rhythm of life that is rooted in the practices of Acts 2:42 (scripture, prayer, breaking of bread), and in keeping ourselves tied off not only to God but also one to another it naturally leads us into “bearing one another’s burdens”; our Mutual Support of one another and our communities.
    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.
    30 min
  • Family Mutuality #1 : Mutual Christ

    The Church isn’t a bundle of individual experiences so much as it is our shared story as individuals wrapped up together into the life of Christ. This episode we start to unpack our “mutualities”, what we share in common with ‘one heart and mind” in the Gospel and this is the engine for doing city transformation together. We start by celebrating the horizontal and vertical bonds of the Gospel’s Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: We are In Christ, Christ is in Us.

    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org They would love to hear from you.

    39 min
  • The Church as a Kingdom Family
    When the author of Hebrews said “Don't forsake gathering together” they were exhorting us to be a family, not just a meeting. When we see Church as a spiritual pyramid scheme instead of a Kingdom Family, we miss God’s Plan A for the hope of the world and there are many exiles who have abandoned the Church because they were hurt by being treated like members of a institution instead of beloved siblings and children. The family of God is the delivery system of city transformation, and the Father is asking us to reclaim hope in being his Church and to repent for a lack of love for the bride or for unresolved church relationships.
    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ They would love to hear from you.
    33 min
  • Mindset #4 : Sacred/Secular or Sanctity of All
    The sacred/secular split has hurt our witness and effectiveness in our cities; to see the “church” world as “sacred” while our neighborhood and workplaces are described as “secular” denies us the beauty of experiencing the presence and work of the Holy Spirit in the marketplace. The presence of God is not reserved for “worship” services on Sunday, but is constantly available to all God’s people in whatever career, calling or neighborhood they have been assigned by God.
    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/
    37 min
  • Mindset #3 : Clergy/Laity or Priesthood of All Believers
    Why are we so Sunday centric? How did we become spectators of and not participants in the work of God? Over the last 1900 years, the church has moved from a family in the first century to a “hierarchy”. Now God is moving us back to a revelation of his church as a household, a family on mission, where each one is valued and released—not into “church work” but into a kingdom enterprise among the culture.
    37 min
  • Mindset #2 : Our Vision or God’s Vision
    Where do we get our vision for life and work from? How do we distinguish between “good ideas” and the will of God? Do we deliberate together until a decision is made or is God’s voice the primary and final determinant in the decisions we make?
    36 min
  • Mindset #1 : Transactional or Relational
    People first or achievement first? Do we primarily work with a team to get work done, or because God has placed us with those people? Are we judged by our competence to fulfill another’s vision or are we valued because we have a destiny others are invited to discover with us?
    Jon Petersen's books 'Unravelled' [CityForce, 2018] and 'Unveiled' [CityForce 2019] are available on Amazon, and you can connect with Jon and Ken at www.cityforce.org/ Also credit and thanks to Dave and Tara Power's of Mountain City Music for our theme track.
    32 min

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What would it look like to transform our cities with the Gospel of the Kingdom? It would start with our own personal transformation, flow into the transformation of our community, and then it…