The Goodness of God

By Trey Comstock

Every week, Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily talk about Scripture and what it means to try and be the Church in the 21st Century.

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May 21, 2024 Acts 2:1-21
We seem like to act like we have two truly important holiday, Christmas and Easter, but in reality, we have a third: Pentecost. The decent of the Holy Spirit kicks off the era that we still in live, where the Holy Spirit moves among us, binds us together, and empowers us to do something. It's an amazing gift that we got that day - one that we continue to have. We should value it and us it accordingly.
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35min
May 17, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Faith Contributes to Human Flourishing
The Human Flourishing study follows 200,000 people across a couple of dozen countries, and they plan to do check in with the same people for years to come. As the name implies, the study wants to capture how people feel about their lives and what factors influence that feeling. This first run of the study found something interesting about religious life. Being a part of a religious community measurable improved the sense of flourishing in those studied. It's almost like living as God intended has a real impact on people lives.

Here is a link to the summary of the study:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642680/global-study-aims-uncover-humans-flourish.aspx
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27min
May 14, 2024 Acts 1:1-11
Christ's ascension changed the nature of God's work in the world. The Disciples could no longer observe what was happening. They had to shift to taking a much more active role. That's still the case. God sends us power, grace, and ability, but we have to do something with it. If you feeling like something is missing in your faith life, ask yourself, how are you putting that faith into action?
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40min
May 10, 2024 How to Restart a Church: The New Frontier of Campus Ministry
Campus ministry, like a lot of things in former times, had an understood model. Student would need something like a youth group 2.0 to be a part of during college to hopefully prevent a break in their Christian journey. This has changed. The bulk of students now arrive on college campuses without an previous church experience, and if anything, on a more amorphous spiritual journey. This will need new models for working with college students, but it's also a bellwether for what church as a whole will need to become.
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33min
May 08, 2024 John 15:9-17
To call love a "commandment" should probably means something more to us than it seems to. In the Old Testament, a quick way to become a hero was to die for the sake of following God's law. If all of that love got summed up in a command to love, do we treat it with the safe seriousness? Would be die for the sake of love? We like to wave God's instructions at others, but will we take on the most core commandment ourselves?
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41min
May 05, 2024 How to Restart a Church: The Denomination that Lived
The postponed 2020 United Methodist General Conference being held in 2024 just ended and A LOT happened. The headlines most places focus on the end of the same-sex marriage ban, the lifting of the ban on ordaining LBTBQIA+ folks , and a more regional structure. It's more than that though. It's a move a way from a rules based way of living together to hopeful one more full of grace, peace, and flexibility.
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38min
April 30, 2024 1 John 4:7-21
Love. Love. Love. Love. This text repeats the word love to a comical degree. It's like every other word, but the repetition makes the point that love sits at the core of it all - literally. At the center of creation sits a being described as the motivating force of love. God is love. Love has such power because it carries with it the very power of God. Love is a verb. It motivates and moves. Love is also universal, so all of humanity has known some of God in their lives. We just need eyes to it, and hearts open to share the love of God with others.
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39min
April 26, 2024 How to Restart Church: Hello from UM General Conference
Pastor Trey is in Charlotte, North Carolina for the United Methodist 2020 General Conference being held in 2024. That is its actual name. One of the hot topics that the delegates are working on is worldwide regionalization. This sounds like some sort of bureaucratic shifting, but it actually a fundamental reordering of the denomination toward contextual ministry across its global reach. It's a way to let Africans be contextual to Africa, and Americans to contextual to Americans. It leans into a future where the local needs define what ministry looks like.
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30min
April 26, 2024 John 10:11-18
Sheep die for the sake of the shepherd's way of life. Similarly, kings are served. They aren't servants. Jesus turns all of those things on their heads. In being the Good Shepherd, he turns shepherding on its head just as he turns kingship on its head. We should at some point start conceptualizing a better reality than they one we create for ourselves. The one that God creates for us was made for us by the good shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep.
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37min
April 20, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Interview with Paul Nixon
This week Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily are joined by author and speaker Paul Nixon. He spends his life helping churches find new life, get weird, and get going. Just this week, he put out a totally revised version of his book "I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church," because he wrote the first edition in 2008 and clearly saw that we live in a totally different world now. His work and this conversation are great reminders that modern ministry has to be specific to a context and a mission field. One size no longer fits all.

I Refuse to Lead a Dying Church:
https://www.amazon.com/I-Refuse-Lead-Dying-Church-ebook/dp/B0CYMCTD96/

Weird Church:
https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Church-Welcome-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0829820345/
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47min

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