Reframing The To the Saints Podcast

(Do people think that our TTS podcast is a meeting?)

We are Seven Saints coming together to express the life of Christ. So the To the Saints podcast must be a church meeting, right? I mean “where two or three are gathered, there I will be in their midst” and all that, am I right?

That’s not true, R.C.!

There are many different ways of meeting together around the Lord. A corporate meeting where the Saints gather under the headship of Christ to express His life back to Him and to each other is not the same thing as a couple people in a coffee shop or a group having a game night or seven folks creating a podcast, even if the content of each gathering is centered around the Lord being all and in all.  

So what is this podcast?

Vision

Let us press on to maturity

Purpose

Why we are doing this

So what are the Similarities & Differences between TTS and a meeting?

Similarities

Both led by the spirit

All saints functioning

Preparation

* Both Reveal Christ

Differences

* TTS more polished worked through before speaking vs a meeting lots of pauses and processing things

* Refining process learning to lay down our lives for one another, you don’t see our disagreements.

Not a lot of reframing of thing in meetings.  

Preparation

Sharing in the preparation of a podcast is sharing some time and experience together, but it not really sharing our lives with each other in the way of body life.

From the website:

ABOUT TO THE SAINTS

Spiritually speaking: We are followers of The Way who have been enraptured by our Lord and His Ageless Purpose, His Ultimate Intention. We are believers in Jesus Christ who have come to love the cross and its foolishness because we’ve had a foretaste of the resurrection that follows.

Practically speaking: We are three families and a single brother who have all spent time in vocational ministry, but are now following the Lord outside the institutional system. We have all experienced organic/natural/real church life and are now moving wherever the Lord leads to plant expressions of Christ in cities all over the US.

To the Saints started out as a two-hour radio program on Sunday afternoons in Austin, TX. Now, we’re just on the line sharing what we’ve seen and experienced on a weekly(ish) podcast.

 

You know what Thomas loves about Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee?  Its the scenes where they drive on the same nasty streets as the rest of us.  They really are just people… Just like us; we do all the same stuff everyone else does, and we’re none the better for it.  

You likely have an idea of what you wish it was, because that is comforting to know that even if you don’t have your wish dream, at least you believe it’s POSSIBLE, which provides some psychological comfort.

Conclusion:

One thing to remember saints: with each group out there, the Lord has a different type of fruit that he is producing. The “to the saints” ministry is the fruit of the group(s) that we have been a part of with each other. As your group grows and is developed into what the Lord wants, there surely will be fruit, but it won’t look the same as the ministry we have. Celebrate what unique gifts the Lord is birthing in your group