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A Conversation about Deacons | S4E6 Oct 19, 2026

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Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a conversation guide for you to facilitate discussions just like this one with the biblical community in your life!

Servant Identity Conversation Guide #3—Deacons

In this episode, Christy sits down with Pastor Brandon Delk and Pastor Tony Diana for a conversation about the ministry of deacons. We talk about deacons gone wrong and deacons gone right, and think through next steps for all of us as we are served by or maybe even become deacons.

Deacons: Servants of the Church | S4E5 Oct 12, 2026

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In this episode, Christy teaches about deacons, who are a special group of church servants. She walks through their origin story from Acts 6 and the qualifications for a deacon from 1 Timothy 3, and tells stories from the real-life ministry of deacons from across The Summit Church.

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One in Christ

Serving the Church, with Danny Franks | S4E4 Oct 05, 2026

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Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a conversation guide for you to facilitate discussions just like this one with the biblical community in your life!

Servant Identity Conversation Guide #2—Serving the Church with Your Spiritual Gifts

In this episode, Christy sits down with Summit Church pastor Danny Franks for a conversation about serving the church. Pastor Danny has played a pivotal role for decades in leading members of The Summit Church to grow in serving one another. Their conversation includes big picture vision, real-life stories, and practical next steps.

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Join a Serving Team

Serving the Church with Spiritual Gifts | S4E3 Sep 28, 2026

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In this episode, Christy teaches about serving the church using spiritual gifts. From 1 Corinthians 12, she explains how spiritual gifts are from God for all believers to build up the body of Christ. Then, she gives practical next steps for all of us to grow as servants by serving our church families.

Resources:

Join a Serving Team

Spiritual Gifts Inventory

Spiritual Gifts List

A Life of Service | S4E2 Sep 21, 2026

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Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a conversation guide for you to facilitate discussions just like this one with the biblical community in your life!

Servant Identity Conversation Guide #1–Our Serving Savior

In this episode, Christy sits down with Pastor Rick Langston and Pastor Rob Hardy for a conversation about living a life of service. They share the highs and lows in their discipleship growth as servants and give some practical next steps for all of us to grow more like Jesus as we serve others.

Our Serving Savior | S4E1 Sep 14, 2026

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In this episode, Christy starts the season by teaching how we serve because Jesus first served us. She walks through Isaiah 52–53 to show how God sent his Son to be the Suffering Servant because every one of us needed a Savior. Then, she follows the Apostle Peter as he tells how Jesus’ service in his life, death, and resurrection is an example for us as we serve by giving of ourselves for the good of others.

Resources:

Join a Serving Team

How to Live as Brothers and Sisters in Christ | S3E13 May 11, 2026

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Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life!

Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #7—Living as Brothers and Sisters

In this episode, Christy sits down with Sara Henderson and Jason Douglas to discuss what it looks like to live as brothers and sisters in the local church. They describe symptoms for when something has gone wrong in brother-sister relationships and what it looks like when we’re living in God’s design. And along the way, they share snippets from their personal friendships and next steps each of us can take to live with members of the opposite sex as brothers or sisters.

What It Means to Be Brothers and Sisters in Christ | S3E12 May 04, 2026

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In the end, the final and eternal relationship men and women will have with each other is brother and sister. Because we’re all children of God—with him as Father, through his Son—that makes us siblings to each other. The gospel, and belief in it, creates a family that consists of brothers and sisters in Christ.

Because we are truly brothers and sisters in Christ, men and women in the church ought to:

Love each other
Labor with one another for gospel and mission
Recognize that we need each other

Resources:

One in Christ

Single and Married People Living as Family | S3E11 Apr 27, 2026

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Discipleship happens in relationships, and we want to help! We’ve put together a discussion guide for you to facilitate conversations just like this one with the biblical community in your life!

Family Member Identity Conversation Guide #6—Being Family as Single and Married

In this episode, Christy sits down with Elizabeth Hughes and Dave and Lauren Turner. They open up their lives to share their story and how they became family with one another. They share silly anecdotes and meaningful dialogue concerning how their lives are better by sharing them together.

Married and Single People Living as Family | S3E10 Apr 20, 2026

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Both marriage and singleness are good and about the gospel—just differently.

From Genesis 2 onward, marriage is a normal expectation in human existence—because it is God’s plan to create for himself a great big family, and without marriage, there would have been no way for the earth to be filled with God’s family. And marriage was always about Jesus and the church. Marriage is a God-ordained picture of the gospel of Jesus Christ on display for the world to see.

Marriage is God’s idea. It’s good, and it’s about the gospel. And so is singleness.

In the new creation, all bad, sad, and temporary things are cast off, and in that mix, Christian singleness perseveres. Singleness is eternal and things that last forever are good. Single people live out the sufficiency of Christ through our undivided devotion to him. Through undivided devotion to Jesus Christ as Christian singles, we can be fulfilled and content with the church as family, even if we never marry or have children.

Resources:

Single Ever After by Dani Treweek

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