The Venture 12 Podcast

In this podcast Dr Fran Porter compellingly shares how the story and paradigm of Christendom shapes the story of the church and crucial human relationships. Those between men and women. Join us for a whirlwind tour of the world you thought you knew, but that you're only just discovering!

There are so many feelings, ideas and traditions surrounding the bible. How to read it, how to use it and how to understand it. In this episode we talk to Bradley Jersak about the scriptures, authority and WHO the Word is. (Spoiler: The Word grew a beard, when he was 18).  How do we avoid on the one hand modern literalism and on the other hand throwing out the Bible all together as irrelevant or outdated? The conversation revolves around his book “A More Christlike Word”, where he explores the ancient ways of reading and interpreting the bible.

In the second episode of our miniseries on the fivefold, we welcome Nathan Brewer who is a church planter in Austria,  a 5Q coach and  the Author of The Pulse of Christ: A fivefold Training Manual. Nathan talks to us about why the fivefold is important for the health and maturity of the church and also helps us move forward from just concepts and awareness to how the fivefold gifts can actually be practiced to help equip disciples and leaders. To contact Nathan Nathan@fivefoldtraining.com You can order The Pulse of Christ: A Fivefold Training Manual directly from his website at https://www.fivefoldtraining.com/eng/

In this episode part of the core leadership team in Helsingborg Salvation Army share stories of what it looks like when the diverse APEST callings and functions (Eph. 4) collaborate to release the potential in one another, in discipleship and mission.

The Starfish and The Spirit is about creating a culture where leaders view themselves as curators of a community in mission, not as a source of certainty for every question and problem. Imagine a church led by a team whose gifts and talents are completely unleashed, enabling everyone to show up and step up with all they are. What would it look like to see this kind of healthy leadership for generations?

In this episode we welcome Emma Scott, church leader in Mitcham, to share her thoughts on the New Monastic practice of “sharing a common rule of life”. A practical conversation on how sharing common practices can help shape our walk with Jesus as well as the communities we live in.

Jonny Baker inspires imagination and creativity in this conversation about how the church and acts of worship could look post pandemic. "The challenge facing Christianity today is not a lack of motivation or resources, but a failure of imagination." - Skye Jethani.

This time we interview Paula Gooder who is a Pauline Scholar, writer, speaker and more. Join us on a journey back in time to the early church to encounter one of the key catalysts and leaders in the  expansion of Christianity. "Very few people are as expert as Paula Gooder in communicating biblical scholarship clearly and creatively". - Rowan Williams

What is the Bible? Who is it for? How have we been using it? How should we use it? How should we teach it? Where does it fit in the future of the church? Dr. Peter Enns shares his wisdom on how to handle the Bible by letting it be exactly what it is. "The Bible deconstructs from within what the church has made of it." P. Enns

A conversation with Alan Hirsch. We have become so over reliant on particular ways of being and doing church. The challenge of leadership now is to lead – and not just get through it but come through into what the Lord has been telling us and many of us have been dreaming of for so long? An adaptive ecclesiology for the 21st Century.