RANDALL WORLEY / QUESTIONING MY ANSWERS
“If you can define it, you automatically have confined it as well.”
Randall Worley talks about having a “beginner’s mind,” faith while embracing mystery, pioneering and the nature of heresy, the limits of language, approaching scripture through love, and the importance of remaining curious while understanding that God is not insecure or defensive when we raise hard questions.
“If we are afraid of the answers we will never ask the hard questions.”
Quotes:
“If we are afraid of the answers we will never ask the hard questions.”
“If it’s causing you to love God more, love yourself more and love people more, it’s the truth.”
“Our hearts can understand far more than our minds will ever apprehend, much less comprehend.”
“God does not conceal anything from us but He does conceal it for us.”
“When mystery is taken out, the relationship is doomed.”
“It’s something I ask for often, ‘I want the beginner’s mind.
“Creation was God’s original language.”
“If you can define it, you automatically have confined it as well.”
For more on Randall Worley
www.randallworley.com
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QUESTIONING MY ANSWERS
A Manifesto for Spiritual Searchers
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Randall Worley hosts interviews on his Instagram and I (Jason) was honored to have a conversation with him about the goodness of God, the mystery of faith, the sovereignty of God, and how we are navigating the murky waters of offense in these unprecedented times.
I also share about the heart behind why I wrote the book, God Is (Not) In Control / The Whole Story Is Better Than You Think
Randall Worley is an author, speaker, leadership consultant, and life coach. For 40 years he has traveled the world speaking in conferences, seminars, and schools inspiring his audiences to think progressively about the role of the kingdom of God in the world.
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MICHAEL MCELYEA / You Love Me, But You Don’t Know Who I Am
You love me, but you don’t know who I am. Those are the words God spoke to Michael several years ago and it took him on a journey into measureless love, grace, and union with an always good, never leaving, no distance or separation, Triune God. With grace and joy the conversation dove into the two greatest lies on the planet, Penal Substitution and Eternal Conscious Torment.
Quotes:
“You love me, but you don’t know who I am.”
“The cross is an unveiling of the nature of the true God as radically forgiving, co-suffering, other giving love…and an unveiling of His love for humanity and our value and worth…”
“You were not joined to God at the cross, you were joined to God in Mary’s womb”
“In the incarnation, humanity and divinity are joined as one, eternally.”
“’God, what about evil people?’ I asked. God answered my question with a question, ‘Is my name not Abba?’
“Once I understood the incarnation (it raised the question), ‘Is God going to destroy His own image?”
“He is destroying things in His fire but it most certainly isn’t people, nor is it to inflict punishment, He is destroying that which destroys us.”
For more on Michael McElyea
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The Uprising
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KATIE SKURJA / DISCOVERING OUR HUMANITY
In this podcast, Katie Skurja talks about discovering our humanity in the image of God, shame and behavior, grace and identity, paradox and spiritual and emotional maturity, freedom, and intrinsic authority.
Katie runs a private practice in North Plains, Oregon, has a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy as well as a Masters of Spiritual Direction. She speaks with grace and great authority, we absolutely loved this conversation!
Quotes:
“To except our humanity is to have relationship with God. We make the gospel about denying our humanity and that is the exact opposite direction we should go.”
“Inside the presence of God there is only room for one God, so when you want to be God that takes you outside of relationship.”
“When we teach a theology that is lacking paradox it creates and adds to (our sense of) shame…”
“Shame is the most powerful force on the planet, other than grace.”
“If your God isn’t expanding, you’re stuck.”
For more on Katie Skurja and Imago Dei Ministries
www.idmin.org
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Below are the videos we referenced in this podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=hVTBnl5iEEg&feature=emb_logo
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ERIC JOHNSON / In The Image of God
Eric Johnson, the pastor of Bethel Church in Redding CA, shares generously, humbly, and with great insight on the goodness of God, navigating culture, Jesus and American politics, spiritual maturity, emotional health, and what it means to be alive.
Quotes:
“The grand narrative is God is in love with humanity and He has this never-ending ambition to save and redeem (us)…”
“When people see how good God really is, it’s amazing how quick repentance is.”
“We all have a context that helps shape our world views, we have an immense challenge of differentiating between following Jesus and American politics.”
“People follow Jesus from every type of world view…”
“I have no problem if we’re fighting for American rights or liberties, the part that gets sticky for me is when (we) start using ‘Jesus’ or ‘Kingdom’ to back up (our) political positions.”
“We are not deconstructing we are wanting to get sharper, wanting to be more like Jesus.”
“We need a fresh revelation on the image of God, of being made in the image of God.”
For more on Eric Johnson and Bethel Church
www.bethelredding.com
www.bethel.com
www.bethel.tv
bethelmusic.com
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AMY SIMMONS & KRISPIN MAYFIELD / Attachment Theory and a Healthy Spirituality
Therapists Amy Simmons and Krispin Mayfield discuss attachment theory and how it intersects with our spirituality and plays out in our church culture.
The parent-child relationship and our formative years greatly influence how we navigate everything, including our spirituality and faith. Often our theological deconstructions are the fruit of discovering a God with whom we feel loved, secure, and safe; where we move from insecure to secure attachment.
Quotes:
“In the church, we have a lot more powerful metaphors for sin and separation than we do for being loved and accepted. Krispin Mayfield
“The phrase, ‘If you love me then you will,’ is an emotional abuse phrase. But we apply that to our relationship with God all the time. We tell kids that God is emotionally abusive.” Amy Simmons
“Unity is a product of a loving relationship, not the goal. Unity is what happens when we love each other, are safe with each other and treat each other well. Unity is not what God is asking us for, unity is what happens when we do what God is asking us for…” Amy Simmons
Amy Simmons and Krispin Mayfield host the Attached To The Invisible PODCAST
Amy Simmons: Instagram
Krispin Mayfield: Twitter / Website
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MARK AND JULIE APPLEYARD / RETHINKING CHURCH
Risk, trust, pioneering and a church built upon encounters with the transformative love of God, this podcast is an invitation to rethinking church.
From the traditional to a micro church model, Mark and Julie share their journey of pastoring.
Today, through Anothen Micro Church, they empower believers around the world to become influential spiritual leaders in their homes and communities.
Quotes:
“I don’t have great faith without great belief, and I don’t have great belief without deeper encounter.” Mark Appleyard
“For love to be agile the church has to be mobile.” Julie Appleyard
“Every believer is a leader simply by he who is in them.” Mark Appleyard
“What if we didn’t become policers of rules but releasers of people.” Mark Appleyard
“God is much more passionate about creating cultures for freedom than the sin issue because He has already dealt with that.” Julie Appleyard
For more on Mark or Julie Appleyard or Anothen go to www.anothen.co
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KENNETH TANNER / A BODY OF WHICH I AM A MEMBER
Approaching scripture, prayer, and our participation in the divine life, Father Kenneth Tanner explores a faith that is beautiful in its simplicity; God really loves humanity.
Kenneth talks about a wonderfully multifaceted church. He addresses how to approach scripture through community with both the contemporary and historic church. “It’s an experiential relationship with the church that reveals the whole picture of Jesus and how we should read scripture,” Kenneth speaks to prayer, once again approaching the subject through community, and finally, he speaks to our divinity in Christ.
Quotes:
“All the language that the New Testament uses is plural.”
“The core identity of every human is the image of God. Which cannot be taken from any human.”
Regarding Job, “…You can open that book and realize right away that it is not meant to be read literally. God does not play dice with human lives. Nor bargain or negotiate with Satan about human being’s lives…”
“The glory of God is a human being fully revealed.” Ananias
Fr. Kenneth Tanner is pastor of Church of the Holy Redeemer in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He writes for many magazines including, Sojourners, The Clarion Journal, and more.
You can find him at Faceboo, Twitter, and Instagram.
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STEVE MCVEY/ BEYOND AN ANGRY GOD
Scandalous multifaced fathomless grace, restorative justice, our true identity, our union with Abba Father, and intimacy with a Triune God barely scratches the surface of this 40-minute power-packed PODCAST interview with Dr. Steve McVey.
Quotes:
“If you say you need to balance grace, you have zero understanding of what grace is.”<
“The idea you have grace on one side of a road and law or truth on the other side is an insult to the very nature of God”
“Sin is a matter of misbelief…a person who sins is a person who falls short of their true identity.”
“When Jesus died on the cross was he punished? Yeah, but the punishment was from sin itself, it wasn’t from God…”
“I was a pastor for 21 years and I’m telling you if I had not come to understand the Abba of Jesus the way I do today, I would be an atheist right now.”
“You have to reject the false god to understand who the true God is.”
Dr. Steve McVey is an author and the president of Grace Walk Ministries.
To learn more you can go to www.gracewalk.org
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MARK KARRIS/ RELIGIOUS REFUGEES
Mark speaks on the disorienting faith shift so many are currently experiencing regarding their thoughts about God, the church, and ourselves. With grace and insight, Mark addresses the PTSD symptoms of those who have been de-churched; “…those who wanted community and got judgment, who wanted to affect the life of the church and got bureaucracy, who wanted conversation and got doctrine, who wanted meaningful engagement with the world and got moral prescription.”
This Podcast encourages those who have experienced some form of a shift in their theology and then have either felt a sense of not belonging in their home church or have even been rejected.
Quotes:
“As Christians, were fluid human beings, we’re gonna change some beliefs here and there.”
“For me, it’s asking leadership, it’s asking those within the church, ‘are you harming or are you healing? Are you punishing for punishment’s sake,’ which is the essence of retributive practice, ‘or are you restoring for love’s sake.”
“The beautiful thing is when people can become who they are in God. The creative, unique, multifaceted human beings that are embedded and embodied in divine love; my goodness it can be so freeing!”
Mark Karris is a licensed therapist, author, ordained pastor, adjunct professor, and recording artist
To learn more about Mark you can go to, www.markgregorykarris.com or to his Facebook Page
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JOHN MACMURRAY/ IF YOU LOOK AT IT AS A RELATIONSHIP…
“This is eternal life… “ That is how John 17 starts. It is the only place in all of scripture where you’ll even get close to a direct definition of what eternal life is. And Jesus defines eternal as a relationship. My entire education had defined eternal life as believing the right ideology… All I knew was, God was better than I thought he was and there was no way I’m going back…”
In this Podcast, John MacMurray shares with humor, ease, and insight into the nature of our Triune God’s love and faithful pursuit of humanity.
Quotes:
“If God is doing his best for man all the time it just changes the landscape of how I look at life and humanity, it changes everything.”
“The Father, Son, and Spirit say, ‘well, he won’t get his nose out of John so maybe we should meet him there. The way God loves us is, if you won’t get our nose out of playboy, then He’ll meet you here…’”
“When does punishment reconcile anything? It literally has no power to reconcile.”
“The theology I followed was leading me to a God that was a monster.”
John MacMurray is an author, speaker, and founder of The Open Table Conference
To learn more about John you can go to, www.johnmacmurray.com
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