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    CFTROU 0171: Becoming a Culture Carrier Jun 20, 2023
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    CFTROU 0171: Becoming a Culture Carrier

    On this episode, our guest hosts discuss how you can become and develop culture carriers within your staff teams and congregations. Pastor Winner Olmann and Pastor Tyler Core, talk about what culture is, the Family Church culture, and how culture is caught, as well as taught. They share stories of how culture is infused through their congregations and the challenges they face as leaders. You can also hear tips on having patience with the different aspects of building culture. Tune into an encouraging conversation with about developing culture and engaging culture carriers.


    Key Points From This Episode:

    • The importance of having a clear mission, vision, and core values.
    • What we believe being a culture carrier means at Family Church.
    • Challenges with infusing culture.
    • How they share their culture throughout their congregations.
    • The importance of setting your ego aside.
    • The five aspects of building culture.
    • Why you have to be patient when trying to build culture.

    Our vision, mission, and core values are constantly at the front of what we’re doing so we want to keep that in front of our people.
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

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    Leslee on Twitter

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    Family Church on Instagram

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0170: Creating a Healthy Staff Culture Jun 06, 2023
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    CFTROU 0170: Creating a Healthy Staff Culture

    The conversation in this episode is focused on building a healthy staff culture. Our guest hosts are Pastor Scott Crawford, Business Administrator of the Family Church Network, and Pastor Todd Thomas, Campus Pastor of Family Church Sherbrooke. They begin with defining culture as it relates to our context and move on to discuss why culture matters. Pastor Scott and Pastor Todd also share how meals, meetings, and retreats can help build the right culture and they talk about why continuous improvement is key in building a healthy culture. Tune in to listen to a good word from our pastors!

    Key Points From This Episode:

    • Defining what culture means for Family Church.
    • Why language is important in how we interpret and relate to culture.
    • Five reasons why churches need to think and be intentional about their culture.
    • Culture-killers that we all need to be wary of.
    • Taking a look at how churches can build the right culture.
    • Pulling in and lifting up, filling the gaps with trust, and constantly improving.
    • What to look forward to in our next episode.

    We vigorously defend our culture and one of the ways we do that is by promoting culture over the individual.
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    We want to pull people in and lift people up. We are for our people and we want to do the best we can to make them feel like they are family.
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Todd on Twitter

    Todd on Instagram

    Scott on LinkedIn

    Scott on Twitter

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

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    CFTROU 0169: Hospitality: Culture, Systems, & Shepherding May 23, 2023
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    CFTROU 0169: Hospitality: Culture, Systems, & Shepherding

    As we continue with the greatest hits from our recent Church for the Rest of Us Conference, we discuss how to prioritize a hospitality culture without sacrificing your systems and shepherding practices. Karen Brooks and Josiah Kish walk us through what this looks like in our context. Karen serves as the Director of Church Ministries at Family Church Gardens and Josiah serves as the Connections and Groups Minister at Family Church Downtown. They first walk us through the Biblical foundations of the teams they lead. Then, Karen defines hospitality at Family Church, while Josiah breaks down the tactics that our teams use to make sure the people in our neighborhood churches feel welcomed and at home. Karen and Josiah also talk about how to identify people that are new to our churches, in a way that feels organic and engaging. They walk through setting up the right shepherding processes and how to follow up with each person with next steps that are specific to them. All of these intentional steps strengthens the relationships we build with people that are new to our churches. This episode is filled with actionable insight you can take and use right now with the resources you currently have.
    Key Points From This Episode:
    • A look at how a sampling of our neighborhood churches operate within their demographics.
    • Defining hospitality in this context as removing obstacles for people to hear the gospel.
    • Tactics we use to help make people feel at home in our churches.
    • How to separate new members from regular attenders without alienating either group.
    • The importance of entry points and processes for building a discipleship pipeline.
    • How to set the right shepherding processes and why a team huddle is an excellent idea.
    • The inconvenience (and necessity) of making the church feel small.
    • Using collaboration in leadership meetings and book studies to help people take their next steps in Christ.

    We want to, across the board, make church feel like home; make it feel small so that you feel like you’re part of the family.
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    We don’t have all the magic answers, but we’re learning and we have a great culture of collaboration. We love doing this together.
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Karen on LinkedIn

    Family Church Downtown

    Family Church Gardens

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0168: Gender Identity & Youth Trips May 09, 2023
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    CFTROU 0168: Gender Identity & Youth Trips

    We are bringing you the greatest hits of this year’s Church for the Rest of Us Conference. On this episode, we are joined by Tyler Core, Campus Pastor of Family Church Gardens, and Victoria Rodriguez, Student Ministry Assistant. Before Pastor Tyler transitioned to his current role, he previously led our student ministry team across our family of neighborhood churches. They discuss the topics surrounding the LGBTQIA2S+ community at our camp this year. We delve into the three fundamentals that make up God’s design for men and women and how we used those fundamentals to create a document of rules and policies. These rules and policies are intended to protect children, create an inclusive environment, and uphold the word of God. We explain our beliefs surrounding gender and sexuality and how we rolled out this new policy. Additionally, we inform our listeners of the mistake we made (and learned from) in our first year. We also share what happens when rules are broken at camp. Finally, we remind you of the importance of having discussions like these.

    Key Points From This Episode:

    • How we handled our discussion about LGBTQIA2S+ children at the conference.
    • God’s design: fundamental equality, fundamental differentiation, fundamental interdependence.
    • Why our church believes that biological gender and sex should match and that heterosexual attraction is God’s design.
    • We go through the document of rules and policies we came up with for students and parents to read and agree to before any trip.
    • The mistake we made the first year we rolled this policy out – not discussing it with the kids.
    • The importance of having these types of discussions.
    • How they handle the breaking of rules on these camps.

    Our theology should inform our philosophy and our philosophy should inform our methodology.
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    All people have tremendous value and worth because they’re made in the image of God.
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    We have got to create spaces to have open dialogue about these things – and make sure these trips are accessible for all sorts of people.
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Pastor Tyler on LinkedIn

    Pastor Tyler on Twitter

    Victoria on LinkedIn

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0167: The Power of the Neighborhood Church: Finale with J.T. English Feb 07, 2023
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    CFTROU 0167: The Power Of The Neighborhood Church: Finale with J.T. English

    We are wrapping up our season of exploring the power of the neighborhood church and here with us today to tie it off in a perfect bow is Author and Lead Pastor, J.T. English. After telling us about his spiritual awakening in college and the providential meeting of his wife, J.T. explains how Storyline Church reaches out to and impacts his community. We discuss the differences between preaching in a community where you are known versus one where people don’t know you, why it’s necessary to create a warm and welcoming environment for those receiving the Word, what some pastors are getting wrong regarding the power potential of neighborhood churches, and how the neighborhood church is contextualized in The Bible. Finally, our guest explores what we as followers of Christ need to know in his book Deep Discipleship, and he describes the basics of discipleship, what it means to lead with discipleship, and what steps new Christians can take to cement their faith in our eternal Savior.
    Key Points From This Episode:
    • J.T.’s background, his family, and his ministry in Nevada.
    • His spiritual awakening in college and the meeting of his wife as a providence of God.
    • How Storyline Church reaches and impacts his neighborhood.
    • The difference between pastoring in communities where you’re known versus unknown.
    • How J.T. creates a warm and welcoming environment for people receiving the Word.
    • What pastors are missing regarding the ideas and potentiality of neighborhood churches.
    • How the neighborhood church is contextualized in The Bible.
    • The basics of discipleship according to J.T.
    • What it means to lead with discipleship.
    • The steps that our guest encourages new Christians to take.
    • Diving into J.T.’s book, Deep Discipleship.

    You have to maintain relationships. As soon as we close relationships off, we can’t reach the world. Organic, open relationships allow us to stay connected to the community.
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    People are not afraid of commitment; they’re afraid of committing to things that don’t matter.
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    If you win them with relevance, you’ll lose them to the next relevant thing. If you win them with excellence, you’ll lose them to the next excellent thing. We want to win people with the true,deep gospel of Jesus Christ. We want to lead…
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Pastor J.T. English on LinkedIn

    Pastor J.T. English on Twitter

    Knowing Faith Podcast

    The Village Church

    Storyline Church

    You Are a Theologian

    Deep Discipleship

    The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0166: The Power Of The Neighborhood Church: Impacting Neighborhoods by Making Disciples with Vance Pitman Jan 24, 2023
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    CFTROU 0166: The Power Of The Neighborhood Church: Impacting Neighborhoods by Making Disciples with Vance Pitman

    Welcome back to the Church for the Rest of Us podcast, it’s 2023 and our conference is getting closer. Don’t forget to register for the conference at churchfortherestofus.com! Today, we want to welcome a very special guest, Vance Pitman. Vance is the president of The Send Network and founding pastor of Hope Church, in Las Vegas Nevada. As you tune in to today’s discussion you’ll hear from Vance about church planting and life in Las Vegas, what it was like growing up in ministry, and his journey to vocational ministry. He shares the impactful story of how they came to plan the church in Vegas and how they focused on impacting the community. Vance is resolved to be intentional about cultivating relationships, having gospel conversations, and making disciples. Make sure not to miss out, so tune in now!

    Key Points: More about Vance Pitman; a background and introduction.

    •He shares about his family and life in Las Vegas.

    •He talks about how he grew up in the ministry and when he came to know Christ.

    •How he misunderstood and confused spiritual maturity and spiritual activity.

    •He shares his journey to vocational ministry and being obedient to the Lord.

    •What he was doing in ministry before starting a ministry in Las Vegas.

    •He shares the story of planting the church in Las Vegas and impacting the neighborhood.

    •Why we need to make use of the streams of culture/society to impact our communities.

    •We discuss the power of the organizational aspect of the church.

    •Vance shares advice with those who can, and want to, be an incarnational outpost to their
    community.

    •A practical tip for any church planter.

    •He shares the strategy they use to plant and revitalize churches.

    CFTROU 0166: The Power Of The Neighborhood Church: Impacting Neighborhoods by Making Disciples with Vance Pitman
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Vance Pitman on Twitter

    The Send Network

    Vance Pitman

    The Stressless Life

    Church for the Rest of Us Conference 2023

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0165: Multi-site Neighborhood Churches Jan 05, 2023
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    CFTROU 0165: The Power Of The Neighborhood Church: Multi-site Neighborhood Churches with Jim Tomberlin

    How do you start a church? You start a small group. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed the series of conversations around the neighborhood church, and our guest on this episode, Pastor Jim Tomberlin, is not only a subject matter expert but an expert in multi-site church and church leadership. Jim helps churches get “unstuck” and multiply through multi-site, merger, and succession coaching. Join in on today’s discussion as we talk about the multi-site neighborhood church, why churches have struggled to engage their neighborhoods, and how you can shift your focus to reengage your neighbors. He also shares some examples of what churches are currently implementing to positively impact their surrounding neighborhoods. To hear more about how you can work towards engaging your neighbors and reaching communities, tune in now!

    Key Points:

    • Jim introduces himself to the listeners.
    • How Jim thought about “the neighborhood” when he was leading multi-site churches.
    • The benefits and drawbacks of [multi-site] neighborhood churches, according to Jim.
    • We talk about the average size of the local neighborhood church.
    • Why churches have struggled to engage in their neighborhoods.
    • How you can shift your focus to reengage your neighborhood.
    • Jim shares some examples of how churches are positively impacting their neighborhoods.
    • What pastors and churches are missing about the potential of neighborhood ministry.
    • He shares systems and programs that have worked to reach communities.
    • How to find out more about The Unstuck Group.

    I think the multi-site church is a local community strategy.
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    I've always felt like if you are planting churches or starting campuses, the first step is to start small groups in the area you want to have a location, a campus, or a congregation.
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    How do you start a church? You start a small group.
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    The big miss that we've made so much in our generation is that we’ve made church all about a building.
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Jim Tomberlin on Twitter

    Jim Tomberlin on LinkedIn

    The Unstuck Group

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0164: The Power of the Neighborhood Church Series: Engaging Neighbors as the Neighborhood Church with Dr. Ed Stetzer Dec 13, 2022
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    CFTROU 0164: Engaging Neighbors as the Neighborhood Church with Dr. Ed Stetzer

    Neighborhood churches can be an outpost to the neighborhood, through geographical proximity, investment in a group of people, and being intentional neighbors. Our guest today is Dr. Ed Stetzer, a friend, author, speaker, professor, dean, and executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. Join us in our conversation with Dr. Stetzer on engaging with your neighborhood as we continue with our series about the importance of the neighborhood church. We dive into how the church can posture itself as an outpost in the local neighborhood through an intervening action to engage neighbors, how the cocooning cultural system is working to keep us from engaging, and we discuss why living counter-culturally is a key part of church life. We also touch on the concept of incarnational ministry and what it means
    to be a true gospel witness. For all this, and much more, don’t miss out on today’s episode of Church for the Rest of Us!

    Key Points From This Episode:


    • More about Dr. Stetzer and what he is involved in currently.
    • How the term and concept of the neighborhood church grabs Dr. Stetzer.
    • How the church could potentially posture itself as an outpost to the neighborhood.
    • The intervening action that can help [church] members engage with neighborhoods.
    • Dr. Stetzer shares his strategy for engaging with your neighborhood.
    • How the current cultural system is built to keep us away from engaging with our neighbors.
    • We discuss the idea of what we missed when we stopped being a neighborhood church.
    • Why we should be living counter-culturally as a church.
    • Incarnational ministry: why we should be raising the question why?
    • Being true Gospel witnesses.

    CFTROU 0164: The Power of the Neighborhood Church Series: Engaging Neighbors as the Neighborhood Church with Dr. Ed Stetzer
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Dr. Ed Stetzer on LinkedIn

    Dr. Ed Stetzer on Twitter

    Dr. Ed Stetzer Personal Website

    The Art Of Neighboring

    James Davison Hunter

    He Gets Us Campaign

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0163: The Power of the Neighborhood Church Series: Healthy Neighborhood Churches Grow! with Jay Strother Nov 29, 2022
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    CFTROU 0159: The Power Of The Neighborhood Church: A Conversation With Pastor Freddy T. Wyatt

    When essential foundational blocks in local neighborhood churches are in place, churches get healthy and things flourish! Welcome back as we continue with our series on the Power of the Neighborhood Church, today, with our guest, Pastor Jay Strother. He is the pastor at The Church at Station Hill and a part of the Brentwood Baptist Church family of churches. He’s an influential speaker, writer, thinker, strategist, and incredible preacher. Tune in to hear from Pastor Jay about the story behind their church and the larger role he plays. He shares with us the strategy they implement to reach their local neighborhoods and how they navigate the different communities through their eight different campuses across Tennessee. They have a heart to strengthen and encourage the neighborhood churches, along with other like-minded Gospel churches, and they want to ensure Godly leadership that is crystal clear on the Gospel! Don’t miss out on this great conversation with Jay, in another episode of Church, for the Rest of Us!

    Key Points:

    • Jay shares his, and his team’s, experience at the Church for the Rest of Us conference.
    • More about Pastor Jay, his family, and the story behind their neighborhood church.
    • Jay shares more about his role in his neighborhood church and in the larger church family.
    • The strategy they use to reach their local neighborhood and community: Disciples multiplying Disciples (DxD).
    • The four ways they go about their DxD strategy.
    • How they differentiate their strategy amongst their campuses and
    • Examples of unique things happening at and through the different neighborhood churches.
    • Their mission at The Church at Station Hill.
    • The importance of healthy neighborhood churches.
    • What the neighborhood church means to Jay and his family.
    • Advice on how to re-engage in your community: get outside the walls of your church!
    • Bible passages that stand out to Jay in the incarnational neighborhood idea.
    • He elaborates on why they, as a team, have been focusing on Acts 14.

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    We lead with the campus identity, the community identity, first, because we just want to be the hands and feet of Jesus in that local community.
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    Our mission statement is: Engaging the whole person, with the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ, any time, anywhere, with anybody
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

    Jay Strother on Twitter

    Thirty Years That Changed the World

    The Church at Station Hill

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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    This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

    CFTROU 0162: Faithful Neighborhood Mission-Based Presence with Brandon Shields Nov 15, 2022
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    CFTROU 0162: Faithful Neighborhood Mission-Based Presence with Brandon Shields

    Contrary to what is believed, there is immense power in preaching less, deepened listening, holding space, and hosting critical conversations. Brandon Shields, an author and passionate Man of God is here to discuss his family’s journey of taking a leap of faith, moving to Indianapolis, planting their roots, and seeing the fruition of God’s plan. You will hear how Brandon and Emily were intentionally willing to go where the spirit of God was working and how this lead them on the path of creating a neighborhood church. Brandon explains the power of slow, organic growth and the importance of presence, proximity, and particularity. Brandon explains the importance of meditating and soaking in the gospels, how to slow down and listen, and why a neighborhood church may be what you are needing!

    Key Points:

    • Brandon’s involvement in Harbor Network.

    • How Brandon planted his roots in Indianapolis and began his mission of creating a church.

    • Presence, proximity, and particularly: three key elements in Brandon’s journey.

    • The active role Brandon plays in his community.

    • The failures and struggles Brandon faced.

    • The power of hospitality.

    • Moving from talking to practicing.

    • How Brandon has helped start other neighborhood churches.

    • The book of John, Luke, and Jeremiah as guides for understanding the actions of Jesus.

    • Opportunities that are missed when the only focus is growth and reproduction.

    • The power of the neighborhood church.

    • How to pay attention to Jesus intentionally.

    We failed early, often, and fast. We didn’t quit and kept asking ‘God, what do You doing?.
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    Some of the beauty of a neighborhood church is the depth, although you don’t have the width, you have the depth and the intimacy and simplicity and opportunities for embodiment
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    Pay attention to not just what Jesus said, but the way that Jesus lived
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    Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

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    Harbor Network

    The Jesus Way on Amazon

    The Church and Its Vocation on Amazon

    Eternal Words and Changing Worlds on Amazon

    Resilient Faith on Amazon

    Jimmy on Twitter

    Leslee on Twitter

    Family Church Network

    Family Church on Facebook

    Family Church on Instagram

    Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter

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