The UnSunday Show

I'm way overdue for another morning coffee session with you so I thought I would remedy that with this episode. So let's talk about pastors and elders as I give you an update on where my thinking on this topic is going. This episode is also available as a video by visiting  https://www.unsunday.com/videos/85-morning-coffee-pastors-and-elders/-------------- Other Places You’ll Find Me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unsundayshowThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com

Exploring the impact of sermon centrality on the body of Christ, advocating for more participatory and inclusive approaches. Critiquing the drawbacks of sermon-centricity and challenging clergy-led hierarchies. Examining the dominance of sermons in ecclesiastical settings and advocating for a more interactive and collaborative spiritual growth process.

When we read our Bibles without regard to whether the passage we're reading resides in the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, we're mis-reading it. It's common today to give little or no consideration to a New Covenant/Old Covenant context and by doing so, we end up flattening out all of scripture as though every verse or passage is of equal weight and that all of it applies to us today. This is a big mistake that blurs the lines between law and grace and ends up mixing the two and grace becomes non-grace. Let's talk about it.-------------- Other Places You’ll Find Me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unsundayshowThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com

The recently released movie, The Jesus Revolution, brought back many memories for us of the early days of our lives as Jesus People because we were both there to experience some of it. Mike came to Jesus in January of 1973 in the Calvary Chapel tent at a Saturday night concert and Susan met Jesus in the summer of 1973 at an ocean baptism in Pirate's Cove. If you've seen the movie, or if you were there too, you know of these places. We didn't know each other at that time but after we married in 1974, we moved to Costa Mesa where we were part of that first Calvary Chapel. The episode artwork for this episode is a picture of us taken at Huntington Beach at the time that we lived in Costa Mesa and we were a part of the original Calvary Chapel. Here's a link to the video Susan mentioned: https://youtu.be/hw8TbEaAceE-------------- Other Places You’ll Find Me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unsundayshowThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com

Exploring the negative impact of pastor-centrality on the body of Christ, questioning its influence on the functioning of the church. Critiquing the reliance on pastors for spiritual growth and highlighting the need for a shift towards more inclusive and authentic expressions of faith.

the Judaizers in Paul's day insisted that the Old Covenant law of Moses had to be obeyed in addition to faith in Jesus. They mixed law with gospel. Unfortunately, there are modern-day Judaizers who do the same thing to varying degrees with the same outcome: by adding law to grace, they have fallen from grace. Let's talk.-------------- Other Places You’ll Find Me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unsundayshowThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com

Delving into the concept of spiritual growth, this podcast challenges traditional views and highlights the difference between religious conformity and genuine growth in the New Covenant. Emphasizing freedom in Jesus, it encourages a shift from performance-based measures to serving through the Spirit.

Religion diminishes who we are in Jesus by adding layers of obligations on top of the finished work of Jesus on the cross and in his resurrection. There is no rest in religion but in Jesus, rest is part of our new identity. Much like oil and water, religion and rest don't mix. I want to give a much overdue shoutout to Joel Brueseke at the Growing in Grace podcast. He was kind enough to have me on his podcast for 2 episodes several months ago. In fact, it was last year! We had a fantastic conversation that went a little long so Joel made it into 2 episodes. Thank you Joel! Here are the links to those 2 episodes: The State of the Church, Part 1 The State of the Church, Part 2-------------- Other Places You’ll Find Me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unsundayshowThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com

My wife Susan joins me in this episode to talk about five regrets of a former pastor's wife. These speak to the damage done as a direct result of having spent years in institutional church leadership. Grab your favorite beverage, pull up a chair, and listen in.  Here they are in the order we talked about them:Being Silent and Not Speaking UpHow Much it Cost Me and My FamilyDriven to Being Liked and AcceptedCompliance to Misogyny and PatriarchyStuffing My Anger-------------- Other Places You’ll Find Me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unsundayshowThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com

The UnSunday Show podcast website has received a major makeover and there are new features and tools there now that make it easier for us to communicate. -------------- Other Places You’ll Find Me: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unsundayshowThe Grace Cafe Podcast: https://www.gracecafepodcast.com