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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July 19, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Book Report on Seculosity by David Zahl
Christian writer, David Zahl, put out "Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What To Do About It" in 2019, and it dives deep into all the new, and bad, religions that have grown up to replace a wanning Christianity in the West. Also, he argues that most Christianity, at this point, barely resembles the grace filled power of the true faith. It's instructive for us all to give us focus and drive to not just keep churning out new laws for us all to fail to find justification within.

David Zahl's Bio:
https://mbird.com/staff/

Link to buy the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Seculosity-Parenting-Technology-Politics-Religion/dp/1506467644/
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31min
July 16, 2024 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19
King David puts on quite a spectacle - dancing in the priestly equivalent of his underwear. People take notice. Some think better of him, and some think way less. If you choose to believe that David did this out of a genuine desire to please God (and God alone), we have a model to follow. Do your own version of dancing, and do it only for God.
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43min
July 13, 2024 How to Restart a Church: The Well Church NYC
The Well Church NYC creates an fascinating blend of Christianity, wellness retreats, yoga, and meditation with an explicit to reach the average New Yorker that doesn’t know that they’re looking for anything resembling Jesus. For some, their specific blend of influences may feel worryingly out of bounds or pushing up against the boundaries, but for The Well, they feel at home in it. As we go into new areas and push new ideas, we all must wrestle with what is sacred and what is contextual.

RNS Article: A church where wellness meet spirituality (by Ellie Davis)
https://religionnews.com/2024/06/17/a-church-where-wellness-meets-spirituality/
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41min
July 12, 2024 Mark 6:1-13
In scene one, Jesus gets rejected by his hometown crowd. In scene two, he sends the Disciples out with a warning that the same may happen to them. This pairing feels deliberate on the part of Mark, but it's not often how we talk about evangelism, ministry, or pushing forward the Kingdom of God. We make the sales pitch, "Get out there!" This is an important message, but we don't often pair it the way that Jesus did with the message, "It may be extremely difficult and painful."
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49min
July 05, 2024 How to Restart a Church: Leading Churches to Make Big Change
We talked about churches as some of the most stuck in the mud organizations imaginable. So, what do we do, when they need to make huge changes to survive? Pastor Trey and Pastor Emily have built their careers leading churches to just that, and it involves getting as many voices in the room, actually reckoning with the problem, and sitting with it slightly too long to let the Spirit do the work through the congregation.
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40min
July 04, 2024 Mark 5:21-43
Humanity seems set on inventing new and interesting ways to exclude people from the joys of community. In Christ's time, the focus was on "uncleanliness." In the 21st Century, we've moved on from that specific concern and simply came up with new ways. Either way, none of that stuff separates you from God's love, and Jesus didn't let it stop him from showing love. Perhaps, we should act likewise.
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46min
June 28, 2024 How to Restart a Church: The Ten Commandments on the Classroom Wall
This is more ranty than usual. The State of Louisiana enacted a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be placed on the wall of all classrooms in Louisiana public schools (including public universities). Politics aside, if our goal as a faith is to engage and build relationships with an increasingly skeptical world, this will not reduce their skepticism. While more people will see the Word of God because of this, it seems unlikely to build positive relationships.
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29min
June 26, 2024 2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Hell may be other people, but so is the Kingdom of God. It can be far easier to endure sticks and stones that words uttered at you or whispered behind your back. Church brings with it all the problems of people and their imperfections. However, God intends us to gather people together to grow, share, and endure. Paul bore a lot pain in his ministry, but the pain that inspired him to write a letter was emotional - inflicted on him by the Corinthians. He manages to keep his heart open and challenges us to do the same.
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36min
June 21, 2024 How to Restart a Church: The Tale of Game Church (Featuring Rev. Matt Stout)
Rev. Matt Stout, Dungeon Master and Pastor, of Game Church joins the show this week to tell the tale first hand of starting a Fresh Expression, in a game store, center around prayer and a legitimately good D&D campaign. It's all a place where he feels that he belongs. It's a world that he understands. So, he can uniquely reach people by connecting his love of Jesus, his love of people, and his love of rolling dice to tell a story with your friends.
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32min
June 18, 2024 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13
Jesse leaves David out of the big meeting with the prophet. Samuel looks at David's oldest brother and thinks that he's seen God's king. God saw differently. God chose David. We have these visions of what Godly leadership must look like, but we should start looking at the leaders that God keeps choosing. They seldom fit the human envisioned model.
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38min

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