Could you lead Easter at home? The discipleship question
Dan hopes not but admits he has been in the preacher bubble 36 years. Ben reframes it as discipleship: would it feel awkward, dad or mom, to open the Bible with your family and intentionally pray together - and if so, that is exactly where to start, because it should not. He argues the church-as-content-pipeline trains consumers who feel underqualified without a professional in the room, while his house-church experience proves the Scripture is always there and anyone can read and pray. The tools are in hand: the Spirit, the Bible, and God will not let you fail at honoring him.
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Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
- Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
A host asks whether following Jesus should feel more comfortable as time goes on — noting the low-level tension many feel around am-I-doing-enough and the stigma that contentment equals laziness.
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Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
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Recovery ministries, charismatic experience, and sustainable faith
- Can recovery ministries replace a chemical high with a spiritual high, and is that sustainable?
A long pastoral discussion starting from recovery ministries, which tend to come from charismatic backgrounds: the risk of trading a chemical high for event-driven spiritual highs.
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What does it mean to make disciples
- What does it mean to make disciples — is it just giving information, or does it involve accountability and structure?
The hosts take up the third topic: two extremes of disciple-making. On one side, being only an information provider and leaving everything to the Spirit; on the other, running…
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