Jesus Collective Podcast

This podcast is the third part of an ongoing series that is exploring Five Markers for a Jesus-Centred Transformation. In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Paul Eddy (Professor of Theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota). We discuss our second reformation statement: To be saved includes belonging to a community under Jesus called to live the life of the future now. We explore why salvation is bigger than individualism, why we were created for community, why community sometimes sucks, and what it means to live into a future vision of the Kingdom community.

This episode is part of our series exploring Five Markers for a Jesus-Centred Transformation. We’re joined by Brad Jersak who walks us through why we need a more Christlike God, and what it means to read Scripture with Jesus at the centre. We all carry around ideas, images, and experiences of God. It's important to unearth these stories, these experiences, and pictures of God, because the God we imagine is the God we become like. So what is God like? The witness of Scripture is that God is like Jesus - Jesus is what God has to say! And this radical truth reshapes everything.

We're winding down 2022 with a look back at the year and what's ahead for 2023!The Jesus Collective Core Leadership Team shares about our vision and future initiatives. Tip - there's opportunities you're going to want to be part of (included below)!Listen to their chat about that and what's coming for the new year: fundraising for the mission, progress on leadership development, ways to engage, and a year end fiscal update.Resources:5 Shifts of a (possible) New ReformationUpcoming Events:Centred Set Church as Discipleship in a Judgemental WorldLearning Labs - Coming February 2023Jesus Collective exists to provide relationships and resources to amplify a Jesus-centred movement, and we seek to embody a more hopeful vision of following Jesus in our cultural moment. We hope you find this conversation meaningful and that it equips you in your journey!

What does it mean to hear God’s voice? Why isn’t this aspect of faith a normal part of all Christian leaders’ experience with God? How can we tell when we’re hearing the voice of God? What difference does it make if we have a Jesus-centred approach to hearing the voice of God? These are some of the challenging questions that Tania Harris powerfully addresses in this talk.Want more content from Tania? Check out her book “God Conversations” and her blog of the same name at https://www.godconversations.com/Jesus Collective exists to provide relationships and resources to amplify a Jesus-centred movement, and we seek to embody a more hopeful vision of following Jesus in our cultural moment. We hope you find this conversation meaningful and that it equips you in your journey!.

This episode is part of our series exploring Five Markers for a Jesus-Centred Transformation. We’re joined by Professor Mark Baker who discusses our fifth statement: The church is defined by our shared centre, not by the lines we draw. Dr. Baker discusses the difference between a bounded set (obsessing over boundaries) and fuzzy set approach (erasing all boundaries) to offer a radically alternative model of community - a centred-set approach.Check out more resources from Dr. Baker and his series Centered-Set Church.

COVID has been really hard on pastors and ministry leaders, or as pastor Leanne Friesen says, we’ve been “kicked in the call.” Leanne humorously shares from her own struggles in COVID and how the pain exposed places where meaning, worth, and identity were not so rooted in Jesus. This talk is a profound call for leaders to stay and be resiliently rooted in a Jesus-centred focus in the face of the hardships & heartbreaks of leadership. Want more content from Leanne? Check out her blog at https://leannefriesen.com/.

The fastest growing religious demographic in North America are those who no longer identify with having any religious background or affiliation. Author David Zahl shares insights into the secular landscape, challenges, and opportunities in our increasingly post-Christian culture.This talk shares how Secularism acts like a religion and how we can practically engage the longings and desires of our culture with the relevancy of a Jesus-centred approach.Want more content from David? Check out his book “Seculosity.”

Meghan Larissa Good, an expert in recontextualizing Christianity, discusses the concept of a new reformation and the movement Jesus Collective serves. Topics include deconstruction and reformation in religious traditions, hopes for a Jesus-centered transformation, tension between individualism and community, overcoming through suffering love, and markers for a Jesus-centered transformation.

Exciting news: The Jesus Collective podcast is entering a new season in the fall of 2022! To continue our mission of empowering Jesus Collective Partners to lead and take ownership, we’ve empowered two new podcast hosts: Shawna Boren and Paul Walker. In this episode, we take some time to introduce Paul and Shawna to our listening audience and hear about their stories and why Jesus Collective is something they've leaned into.

After her talk on Power the Jesus Way, Cheryl Nembhard joins a panel conversation featuring Danielle Strickland, author, spiritual leader, and co-founder of Hagar’s Voice; Adam Dyer, Pastor of Yeovil Community Church, an innovative church bringing transformation in the South West of England; and Jon Hand, Leadership Development Pastor at Jesus Collective.The panel conversation speaks to the sobering failures of some church leaders and broken power structures in some prominent North American churches. Toward the end, Cheryl ushers in a spontaneous outpouring of the Holy Spirit expressed in prayers and repentance of sin among those gathered at UNITE ’22.