The Worship Homestead

As Christians, how do we know if our worship is acceptable to God?

In this episode, we talk about the worship wars, and four stories from Scripture.

We discuss:

-How two stories from the OT and two stories from the NT fit together.

- What God expects from worshippers today, and why He has raised the standard instead of lowering it.

- Why we shouldn't add regulations to our worship that don't exist in Scripture.

- How the two times people were struck down by God in the New Testament parallel the greatest commandments.

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In our second video of the series, we look at generations. We discuss:

-God's original plan for community

-Why we need three generations living together

-What goes wrong when we separate the generations

-Why modern church purposely keep the generations apart

-What we can do to have healthy communities

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Have you wondered if there is more to church than sermons and singing?

There's a lot more. In my interview with Dr. Tom Wadsworth, we look at the earliest Christian gatherings. They aren't anything like what we have today. We discuss:

-Why the first Christians gathered together (and it wasn't for "worship" like we do today).

-What the early Church did in their meetings.

-How changing Communion changed everything in the early church, and not for the better.

-How we lost what the first Christians had. -

How we can get back to the heart of Christian gatherings.

Dr Wadsworth's Website: https://www.tomwadsworth.com/

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God designed Christianity to work.

But the Church hasn't always done what works.

Let's do more of what actually changes people's lives. In this episode we look at participation.

We discuss:

-How God designed the Church to have full participation between believers.

-How the Church has put power into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

-How much fun full participation can be.

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Every church has a pastor, but what does the Bible say they do?

It doesn't look like what we are doing.

In this video we talk about:

-What Jesus told Peter being a pastor was all about.

-What Peter said he learned throughout his life about pastoring.

-Why the West gets pastoring wrong

- Why being a pastor is so much more than preaching sermons.

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I have a bone to pick with the creeds, and I'm not even a heretic!

I agree with everything in the Nicene Creed, but it is incomplete.

Today we discuss:

-Why Jesus' summation of Scripture is so different from the Church Fathers' statement of faith.

-What the church mistakenly put at the center of Christianity, and why that's a problem.

-How Jesus explains Salvation, and why it isn't like we think of it today.

-How our emphasis on belief makes us pick bad leaders, and what we should focus on instead.

Enjoy. 

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Mike Bickle, Shawn Bolz, Todd Bentley, Chris Reed.

Some of the darlings of the Prophetic Movement have fallen. So what comes next. In this episode, I want to explain what God is doing, and why it's bigger than anything we've seen.

We'll talk about:

-How each of the five offices have been abused in Church History

-Why God is shaking the prophetic movement now

-How God is rebuilding all five offices based upon community, not celebrity

-How we can actually prophecy in groups, just like the Bible says we can

-What a prophetic community looks like in practice.

Be encouraged, the best is yet to come!

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How do you spot a false prophet?

Easy, just judge the accuracy of the word. Right? Wrong.

Jesus himself told us that some false prophets will get accurate words. So now what?

In this episode we discuss:

-What Jesus tells us to look for instead.

-Why God allows false prophets to continue to operate.

-How to have a community that stays safe.

Enjoy.

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How did we get here? More importantly, how do we fix it? Today we look at both questions. We discuss:

-How ancient cultures still affect what we value today. 

-How Jesus viewed celebrity culture.

-The hidden power of weakness.

-God's original plan for Church. 

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Do you have the gift of a Mercy? In the last installment of our 7 part series, we look at the Mercy gifting. 

We discuss:

-Some of the markers of the Mercy gifting.

-What a healthy, mature mercy gifting looks like.

-What the pitfalls for your gift are.

-The lie Satan wants you to believe about yourself. 

-What God made you for. 

Enjoy. 

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