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S2 Ep1022: #1022 - Rethinking Church through Micro-Churches as Missional Communities: Lucas Pulley

Theology in the Raw

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Worship Community and Mission

Worship is not banging on a guitar or something like that. It's like Romans 12 living sacrifice all unto Jesus surrendered to his reign, like hoping to extend his reign together. What we mean by mission is to proclaim and demonstrate the kingdom to the lost and the poor. Some people are doing very missionary like discovery Bible study forms. But in terms of those leaders and their own theological development, that's part of how the centralized services of the network can benefit them.

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Speaker 2
So worship community and mission. When you say worship, what do you mean by that? We always think like, so you have singing. Well, I'm assuming it's probably includes more than just singing. Yeah. Yeah. We
Speaker 1
always have to clarify it with people. What we mean by community. Yeah. Is not like see each other once a week and then never talk anymore. It's like interdependent life on life, spiritual family, extended family. What we mean by mission is to proclaim and demonstrate the kingdom to the lost and the poor. Not like advance your political cause or to try to convince Christians of your thoughts and beliefs or something like that. And what we mean by worship is not banging on a guitar or something like that. But it's like Romans 12 living sacrifice all unto Jesus surrendered to his reign, like hoping to extend his reign together. So it does open it does like open up the imagination of what worship can look like. So it's basically just like in the rhythms of your community, do you consistently acknowledge and surrender to the reign of Jesus and that can look like it can look like singing. It can look like saying a quick liturgy before you have to enter together like a like a breaking bread sort of liturgy before you have tacos or something like that. It can look like like kind of a group like Deodavina kind of listening prayer, contemplative prayer together. It can look all kinds of ways. Do you
Speaker 2
have groups that I guess my next question to that would be like what's like, I don't want to use the word to use because it's going to sound more traditional but like Bible study, theological discipleship, all that whole world. Like what does that just differ from group to group to group? And what if you have, I would imagine for 100 Michael churches, you probably have a decent number maybe small handful of people that are just really want to dive deep theologically and they just space for them to do that with a guide that can help them. Right.
Speaker 1
Yeah. So the way that the way that micro churches are engaging the scriptures and theological development is it varies across the network because it's a matter of contextualization for them. So a micro church like justice that's like going in and planting micro churches inside of juvenile detention facilities across the three county radius, the way that they're doing a Bible study or some people do topical, some people are doing kind of like exegetical, let's just pick a book and train the people we're working with to really do like good inductive Bible study. Some people are doing like Deodavina and more contemplative Bible study like listen for the Lord and through the word and encounter the Lord in the word. Some people are doing very missionary like discovery Bible study forms. But in terms of those leaders and their own theological development, that's part of how the network, the centralized services of the network can benefit them. So the underground is a dual operating system. It's simultaneously two things. That's why sometimes it's hard to explain. On the one hand, the underground is this grassroots network of micro churches. But on the other hand, the underground is a nonprofit platform of services that exists to come alongside and serve and meet the needs of those micro church leaders. So I'm the executive director of that organization. So I'm not paid or anything like that to lead. I'm a micro church leader and I'm just one of 100. And I'm not paying for that. It's not part of my job, anything like that. That's all off time or whatever. My job is to lead a nonprofit that has 20 staff and a budget and a co-working facility that's entirely designed. All the resources, all the decisions, all the programs, entirely designed to serve the network of churches across Tampa and what they need. And one of those needs is training and theological development. So we do have like a training director and a training department and a coaching department that creates both resources and platforms like events or intensive or cohorts to do more kind of theological development for the leaders in the network that are like, I really want to develop in that area. You know, so
Speaker 2
that's okay.

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