Big Things Start Small

Kasey and Beth reflect on the way the White Evangelical Church has supported and cultivated themes of toxic masculinity and femininity in the church. They present another way to see what the gospel calls us to.

This season is inspired by our response to the Capitol Insurrection on January 6, 2021. We looking at the ways that the white evangelical church has fused its theology with a nationalistic religion in ways that are contrary to the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and reflecting on what Jesus might be calling us to instead. This week, we are looking at the issue of individual rights verses communal flourishing.

This season is inspired by our response to the Capitol Insurrection on January 6, 2021. We looking at the ways that the white evangelical church has fused its theology with a nationalistic religion in ways that are contrary to the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and reflecting on what Jesus might be calling us to instead. This week starts by expressing frustration with the White Evangelical Church and seeks to address some of the ways that the church has fused with the wrong gospel and what Jesus might be calling the church to move to instead. This week we are looking at the ways in which the good news of the gospel has been shrunk to a gospel of salvation with a gospel of the Kingdom.

Kasey and Beth wrestle the challenging subject of how to “dancing through minefields.” AKA- saying hard truths in such a way that people who are different can continue to journey with one another toward Jesus.

Kasey and Beth diving into the 3 different modes leaders must shift into in order to leader through transition and the process of Appreciative Inquiry that lead their church into “Broccoli Month.” (Resource mentioned: Mark Branson's Memories, Hopes, and Conversations)

Kasey and Best cover the second key shift that every church leader and congregant has to make, which is a new understanding of making missional disciples. Most church models follow a worship -> community -> mission framework. But perhaps that model needs to be completely flipped on its head.

Beth and Kasey continue talking about what it looks like to learn and embody a local place as a church (both a collective organization and as individual members). The first major mindset shift is to move from being a spectator to a participant. This is as hard for leadership as it is for the congregation.

Beth and Kasey share some background information of Clarksburg Church (the church that Beth is the pastor of) and about the importance understanding the local community so that a church can become incarnate in its location.

For our first episode, we are laying the foundation of what cultural shifts that have happened in Western/American culture that require the church to re-imagine its call and what success looks like. "Joining God, Remaking Church, and Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time" by Alan J. Roxburgh