Podcasts about We Are Church

Sean Brakey from We Are Church sharing the Maranatha heart at our annual Summit.

Do you get it? Do you truly understand what it means to know God, to experience His love so profoundly that it transforms your entire life? In this message, Francis Chan asks us to reflect on whether we really grasp the depth of God's love for us and how it should change us. When we understand this love, we will live with awe, humility, and radical love for others—just like the early church. This message was originally taught in February of 2017 to We Are Church.

In a world where we constantly see the same patterns—division, selfishness, and striving for personal gain—it's easy to fall into these habits without realizing it. In this teaching, Francis Chan explores the idea that, if we belong to Christ, we're not just human beings. We are temples of the Holy Spirit, called to live selflessly and pursue unity as God's people. This message was originally taught on October 29, 2017 for We Are Church.

Pastor Diane Leclerc "We Are Church; Faith Filled with the Energy of Love" Romans 4:1-8, 23-25 For more information please visit: https://nampacollegechurch.com

Kevin Kim is the executive director of Crazy Love Ministries and the CEO of Basil Technologies, a faith-based technology nonprofit. He is an elder of We Are Church, a network of simple churches in the Bay Area. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received his Masters of Divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He lives in Northern California with his wife and 3 children. This episode is a recording of Kevin's killer talk at this year's "Exiles in Babylon" conference.

In todays podcast episode we talk about how we love Jesus without going to Church.Welcome to the Theological Mutts Podcast! In each episode, Jason & Riley McCollister of Tribal Studios host honest discussions about developing a deeper relationship with Christ and His Church. This show is all about the journey of finding a more meaningful faith with God, breaking down denominational walls and building unity in the body of Christ! Whether you're new to the whole Jesus thing or a seasoned believer, this podcast will have something for you!❌ Check THIS Out: https://www.thetribalstudios.com/theological-mutts-podcast▶️ Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9l-NFpwA2L_Yu9GEbihGDQ

This is the second half of Part 2 of our series on LGBTQI inclusion. Please listen to the first half before this one - it gives important context about how I believe we should read and understand the Bible. It should be in your podcast feed just before this episode. This was recorded at the We Are Church gathering on 28 August 2022 in Waverley, Johannesburg, and focuses on what the Bible says about marriage. This second half looks at what Jesus and Paul (and the rest of the Bible) actually say about marriage. It's way less - and a little bit more - than you think. It's not as obvious as it is made out to be, and it definitely does not exclude same sex marriages. For more information about the We are Church faith community, email Jane : jane (at) codrington (dot) biz

This is the first half of Part 2 of our series on LGBTQI inclusion. Please listen the first part of this series before listening to this podcast episode - it should be the previous file in this podcast feed. That looks at the seven "anti gay" passages in the Bible, and shows clearly that we have misinterpreted them. This podcast is the audio feed of a video  that was recorded at the We Are Church gathering on 28 August 2022 in Waverley, Johannesburg, and focuses on what the Bible says about marriage. This first half looks at how we use - and misuse - the Bible, and the importance of looking at the character of God (as revealed in Jesus) for our theology. The second half of this message focuses on what the Bible says about marriage, and will come into your podcast feed next. 

When you think about “church”, how do you imagine it looking like? What do you actually believe about “church” and the body of Christ? Have you ever thought about how you've reached those conclusions? Is it based on what you were taught or maybe your own prior experiences? Or is it founded on what we see in the Word of God? In this week's episode, Pastor Francis Chan challenges the Church to not settle for an unsatisfying imitation of the real thing, but rather to pursue unity and Christ's vision for his bride. This message was from the We Are Church gathering at the FOX Theatre on October 17. 

For many Christians, the sacredness, holiness, and presence of God is thought to be more intense in the Old Testament compared to how one might assume God is in the New Testament. In this weeks episode, Pastor Francis Chan confronts this misconception as he continues on the topic of Communion. We learn that we have greater access to the power and presence of God today by our participation and partaking of the “Lord's Supper”. He explains how we desperately need the Church body to come together for the institution of this holy sacrament. This message was from the We Are Church gathering at the Fox Theatre on October 3rd.

Pastor Jonathan Kelley begins a new series called WE THE CHURCH. In this series we will reclaim the biblical vision for God's local church as the people of God. By reclaiming this biblical vision, each individual and each family can recommit themselves to the gathering of God's people that happens each week. Not a commit to attendance but to engagement, involvement, and participation, because our lives are interwoven with one another. A commitment to engagement and involvement and participation, because God has given the church a mission to fulfill and “not even the firey gates of hell can stand against it.” WE ARE CHURCH.  In today's message we will begin our series by giving our attention to a passage that will help clarify the church's identity as the people of God. It's Revelation 21:1-3. In those few verses we hear that WE ARE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. And, like any groom, Jesus Loves His Bride. Jesus Loves the Church. Jesus Loves First Baptist Church of El Dorado.

Jarod Smith, Lead Pastor of New Tribe Church, brings our 5th episode in this series of We Are _______ Church. He shares how New Tribe is a Holy Spirit Led Church and how that impacts are daily efforts and goals as a church. This video is the recorded live stream service for New Tribe Church in Mt. Juliet, TN. We'd love for you to visit our website https://newtribe.church to learn more about our church and staff.

Jarod Smith, Lead Pastor of New Tribe Church, brings our 5th episode in this series of We Are _______ Church. He shares how New Tribe is a Holy Spirit Led Church and how that impacts are daily efforts and goals as a church. This video is the recorded live stream service for New Tribe Church in Mt. Juliet, TN. We'd love for you to visit our website https://newtribe.church to learn more about our church and staff.

Jarod Smith, New Tribe Church Lead Pastor, shares another anointed message as we continue our series, We Are _______ Church. Today's message recorded at the Charlie Daniels Park Community Center in Mt. Juliet, TN as the church is still displaced from flooding the week prior to Easter Sunday.

Jarod Smith, New Tribe Church Lead Pastor, shares another anointed message as we continue our series, We Are _______ Church. Today's message recorded at the Charlie Daniels Park Community Center in Mt. Juliet, TN as the church is still displaced from flooding the week prior to Easter Sunday.

Jacob Parnell attended the We Are Church one-week intensive in San Francisco and came home with a lot of information, a lot of conviction, but not a lot of direction. Do their practices translate to an established church that isn’t ready to completely jettison its church building, paid ministers, and creature comforts? Is it an all-or-nothing model? What am I supposed to do now? This session will share some of the principles and practices learned from Chan’s house-church network and his reflections on which ones have impacted a 70-year-old California Church of Christ. The session will also share some encouraging guidelines for how to process and apply (or not apply) information learned at any conference or training session.

What should the church look like today? Sean Brakey, Pastor and Elder at We Are Church argues that if you can run an Airbnb, you can probably run a church too. That’s why “simple gatherings,” the sixth core practice of We Are Church is so important for making disciples. This allows for laypeople to rise up, and serve in leadership roles.  “We want to paint a picture for the church – that it can look more like Airbnb – such that we can take these godly, faithful humble Christ exalting people and they can lead in the church. So there’s an intentional simplicity.”  Francis Chan started We Are Church eight years ago in San Francisco, CA and now there are 200 people involved. When asked about church planting, Sean emphasized the importance of pursuing faithfulness, rather than specific attendance numbers. His church's (that he runs alongside Rob Zabala, and Francis Chan) five values are: devoted worshipers, loving families, equipped disciple-makers, and spirit-filled missionaries and suffering sojourners. Sean said “We want every single believer to feel the weight of responsibility themselves to go and make disciples, and to be engaged in the mission." Rate Transforming Discipleship on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram Produced by Kelsey Bowse, edited by Alex Carter

Bonus Message from Pastor David Peden of We Are Church

How is the best way to have a church service? We're doing it a little differently, with a focus on participation. Here's how it works.

How can you create a culture of discipleship at your church? Spoiler alert: you don't need a multi-million dollar budget to do it. In this episode, Oliver Hersey talks to Sean Brakey, Pastor and Elder at "We Are Church" in San Francisco, CA. He also serves as a Director for Crazy Love Ministries. They discuss Sean's journey from being a youth pastor in Ohio, to ministering to the broken and homeless with Francis Chan on the streets of San Francisco. They also explore 5 core practices of We Are Church including devotion to scripture, meeting in homes, everyone discipled and discipling and everyone exercising their spiritual gifts. Rate Transforming Discipleship on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram Produced by Kelsey Bowse, edited by Alex Carter

We Are Church has a pretty compelling vision for being the church. We focus on one of their 6 practices: "Everyone disciples and discipling." http://www.wearechurch.com/structure-1#disciple Thanks so much for listening! Send us questions and comments on Instagram @preachers_hour Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/preachershour Culture and society from the young preachers’ perspective Music: “Drip” by Arenas --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachershour/support

Andrew talks with Abigail about his experience and takeaways from his time at the We Are Church Intensive in San Francisco. We apologize in advance for the quality of Abigail's audio. Some technical difficulties arose, but we sincerely appreciate your understanding. We Are Church Resources Mentioned in This Episode

Throughout Scripture, God’s people are instructed to be sensitive to the needs of others and respond with the same humility, compassion, justice, and mercy that God shows them. Jesus washed the feet of the disciples on their last evening before His death. He told them to follow His example and serve each other in humility. In this third message of our We Are Church series we look at what it means to serve. Pastor Ron

The Church is a community of Christ followers that gathers around a common purpose. There are many good things we do when we gather, but the overarching purpose is to encourage and build up our brothers and sisters. In this second message of our series We Are Church, we focus on why We Gather.

Beginning a new series We Are Church to go back to basics. What does it mean to be "the church"? What are we called to do as the church? This first session is We Worship. Our worship leaders Donovan and Kim lead us through what it means to live a life of worship.

On Sunday, September 8th, Reverend Jason Noh kicked-off the new sermon series on 1 Corinthians entitled We Are Church. The first of the series will be The Power of the Cross. (1 Corinthians 1:18-25)

Lee opens up as new series, We Are, with an in depth and practical look at what it means to be God's People. This week, we look at We Are Church.

This week Adam kicks us off into our new series - We Are Church. We'll be examining the Church as a whole by looking in the book of Acts for inspiration, but we'll be specifically looking at Rechurch's own specific Mission, Vision and Values

Francis Chan is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Community Church and author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Erasing Hell. He travels throughout the world challenging Christians to a higher commitment to Christ. He’s also the founder of Eternity Bible College and has been pastoring churches and discipling people for over 25 years. He currently lives with his family in the Bay Area where he oversees We Are Church, a network of house churches. On this Throwback Thursday edition of the podcast, Francis shares his thoughts on discipleship and the state of the local church.  The original interview featured Francis and Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright at a conference in San Antonio, TX discussing their unique friendship, what Adam is learning from Francis’ teaching, why it’s important to use your platform to share the Gospel, and what is breaking Francis’ heart in the church. You can listen to the entire interview HERE. 

We had our friend Francis Chan come and continue our Advent series. As we are rethinking this Christmas season, we wanted to refocus and rethink how we prepare for Christmas day. Instead of going with the rhythms of culture, and even the culture of the church, we want to go with the rhythms of Jesus' heart. God was and is extravagantly generous, and we want to become people where generosity flows out of us freely. Listen to the podcast to learn more about what it would mean to live a generous life marked by the presence of God.

We had our friend Francis Chan come and continue our Advent series. As we are rethinking this Christmas season, we wanted to refocus and rethink how we prepare for Christmas day. Instead of going with the rhythms of culture, and even the culture of the church, we want to go with the rhythms of Jesus' heart. God was and is extravagantly generous, and we want to become people where generosity flows out of us freely. Listen to the podcast to learn more about what it would mean to live a generous life marked by the presence of God.

We had our friend Francis Chan come and continue our Advent series. As we are rethinking this Christmas season, we wanted to refocus and rethink how we prepare for Christmas day. Instead of going with the rhythms of culture, and even the culture of the church, we want to go with the rhythms of Jesus' heart. God was and is extravagantly generous, and we want to become people where generosity flows out of us freely. Listen to the podcast to learn more about what it would mean to live a generous life marked by the presence of God.

We had our friend Francis Chan come and continue our Advent series. As we are rethinking this Christmas season, we wanted to refocus and rethink how we prepare for Christmas day. Instead of going with the rhythms of culture, and even the culture of the church, we want to go with the rhythms of Jesus' heart. God was and is extravagantly generous, and we want to become people where generosity flows out of us freely. Listen to the podcast to learn more about what it would mean to live a generous life marked by the presence of God.

A reader sent in a question wondering about the 3GTers’ view on Francis Chan’s We Are Church house church movement. After poking around his website and reading this review by Tim Challies on Chan’s Letters to the Church, the guys decided to chime in. They talk about what they admire about Chan and his movement, such …

On episode #711 of of Theology in the Raw Preston answers questions submitted by Pateron supporters. Questions covered in this podcast:[1:50] Can Christians give their tithe to needs outside their local church?[15:46] What does your book writing process look like?[30:49] Should Christians who believe in the Biblical view of marriage identify as same sex attracted, gay, lesbian or LTBQ+?[47:46] Can the We Are Church model work in smaller cities or towns?Support PrestonSupport Theology in the Raw for as little as $5/month and gain access to Patreon-only podcasts at https://www.patreon.com/theologyintherawConnect with PrestonTwitter | @PrestonSprinkleInstagram | @preston.sprinkleCheck out his website prestonsprinkle.comIf you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave a review.

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If all you had to reference was the Bible, what would Church look like? Francis Chan joins us today on the podcast to talk about his upcoming book, Letters to the Church, which addresses that very question. Francis is a pastor, speaker and best-selling author. Francis’s love for teaching the Word compelled him to found Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California, where he pastored for 16 years. Francis is currently the pastor of We Are Church and is planting churches in Northern California, where he lives with his wife of 25 years, Lisa. They have seven children and one granddaughter. In this episode, we talk about learning to become the church rather than simply “do church.” Welcome to episode 34 of the Young Church Leaders Podcast with Grant Vissers!

Francis Chan is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Community Church and author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Erasing Hell. He travels throughout the world challenging Christians to a higher commitment to Christ. He’s also the founder of Eternity Bible College and has been pastoring churches and discipling people for over 25 years. He currently lives with his family in the Bay Area where he oversees We Are Church, a network of house churches. Adam Wainwright is a starting pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals. In 13 years with the Cards, Waino has won 2 World Series, been elected to 3 All-Star teams, and was named a 2017 Silver Slugger award winner. Adam was also a guest on Episode 14 of this podcast.  On this episode of the podcast, Francis and Adam sit down at a recent conference in San Antonio, TX with host Jason Romano to discuss their unique friendship, what Adam is learning from Francis' teaching, why it's important to use your platform to share the Gospel, and what is breaking Francis' heart in the church. This is a powerful listen! For more, log on to http://SportsSpectrum.com  

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Bishop Brendan Leahy and Brendan Butler of We Are Church discuss Pope Francis' Exhortation; Louise Hall reports on Medjurgorje.