The Lifecentral Church Podcast

You reap what you sow... You reap more than you sow... You reap after you sow. This law is not just agricultural, it’s about the story you want your life to tell.

— Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans

Church hurt is not a new phenomenon —we see it all through church history. We see it all around the world in all types of churches, styles and traditions. The impact of church hurt cannot be underestimated... however the Church that Jesus started is a place where we carry one another’s burdens, where we stand alongside one another in good times and bad, where we literally 'one another' one another. Community can be where we experience the deepest hurt, but also where find the deepest healing.

— Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans

This October, we celebrate 45 years since the founding of Lifecentral Church! In this episode of The Lifecentral Podcast, Debs sits down with Leon and Allison to look back on the mission, history and the incredible things that God has done over the last 45 years.

When biblical replaces Christ-like we have missed it! The Church is a movement - we need to make sure that it doesn't get stuck and becomes just a monument. For the movement to keep on moving we need more contributors than commentators, and the best investment of our time outside of our families is the local church that’s outward facing.

Sometimes church can get a little weird! When the church goes off-track and off-mission, things go wrong; but when the church is on-track and on-mission that’s a totally different story. Can you devote one thing towards Jesus this season?

Speaker: Lead Pastor - Leon Evans

Everyone has an opinion about what Church is... Irrelevant? Incomprehensible? Institutional? We believe the Church is unstoppable —an outward facing, multicultural, multi generational, multiplying movement. When we lose sense of this, we lose who we are and who we were meant to be! How can we adopt the tone, posture and approach of Jesus?

—Speaker: Lead Pastor, Leon Evans.

How good are you at ignoring? We all have times when we ignore others, when we just don’t want to hear what they have to say, or we're distracted, or aren’t sure we care about their opinion. This story, heads up, is a bit wild and wacky... but we should all see ourselves in the way Jonah responds and reacts to God.

In this episode of The Lifecentral Podcast, Debs sits down with Laura and Gareth to discuss the topic of spiritual gifts. We ask what is the difference between spiritual gifts and natural talents? How do our individual backgrounds affect our beliefs around this subject? Do we all have a spiritual gift? Where do love and the fruits of the Spirit come in? We round off the episode by looking at how as christians, we fulfil our mandate of helping others to find and follow Jesus in the context of using our spiritual gifts.

Ever feel like you’re being dealt blow after blow by life? Like being punished for something? How many people in our world feel ‘not loved’? ...the hurting, the broken... How do they feel? Like outcasts. Like they don’t belong. But you know what? While we were still a mess and when we’re in the middle of the tunnel of pain, Christ died for us.

—Speaker: Andy Hancock

Sometimes we need a bit of help to SEE. And one thing that stops us seeing or even accepting what we are seeing is PRIDE. We all have moments where we are faced with our pride. How can we deal with it when it rears it’s ugly head?

—Speaker: Jayne Sargeant