Simple Church for Simple People
By Chad Irving
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Podcast Description
In this podcast I share lessons I have learned since planting a house church in January of 2004.
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Reimagining Church Part 4 | Chapter 4: Reimagining the Gathering Place. In Chapter 4, Frank Viola discusses the home as the normal place of the church gathering (although Jesus may certainly call some to meet in a building.) Viola gives 5 reasons why the early church intentionally met in homes: 1) The home testifies that the people comprise God's House. 2) The home is the natural setting for one-anothering. 3) The home represents the humility of Christ. 4) The home reflects the family nature of the Church 5) The home models spiritual authenticity | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reimagining Church Part 3 | Chapter 3, Reimagining the Lord's Supper. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reimagining Church part 2 | Chapter 2, Reimagining the Church Meeting. Viola writes that the 1st Century Church had four types of meetings: 1) Apostolic meetings, 2) Evangelistic meetings, 3) Decision making Meetings, and 4) Church meetings. In this podcast I mostly discuss the regular Church meeting. Viola mentions three aspects of the Church meeting that I see as essential to pursuing organic church life: 1) The Headship of Christ, 2) Every-member functioning, and 3) the Church meeting as a believers meeting | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reimagining Church part 1 | Finally a new podcast! This is the first in a series going through Frank Viola's book Reimagining Church. Each podcast in this series I'll read a section from each chapter. Chapter 1 is titled "Reimagining Church as an Organism." In the section I'm discussing Viola writes that there are four chief paradigms for reimagining the church today: 1) Biblical Blueprintism, 2) Cultural Adaptability, 3) Postchurch Christianity, and 4) Organic Expression. Get which one we prefer :) The first chapter of Reimagining Church is available online here: http://www.reimaginingchurch.org/RC_FirstChapter.pdf As of July 22, 2011 it is also available at Amazon for Kindle for $1.99 here: http://amzn.to/ponNCh *After finishing this podcast I listened to it and realized I've become rusty. I think I said "you know" about 3000 times! Please forgive me, I'll try to do better next time : | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top 10 Things I Don’t Miss About Conventional Church | Repost. This is the last of my previous podcasts that I needed to repost so it could be freely available. I guess I need to do some new podcasts now :) | 2/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Reasons for Slow Growth | Repost: I know that one of the great things about simple church is the great potential for rapid reproduction. However, God may also have churches in seasons that do not include rapid reproduction, or reproduction at all | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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If Only One | Repost. You've probably heard someone say about a ministry and/or program, "If only one person came to the Lord, it was worth it." However the way we judge things by numbers seems to contradict that idea. If only one person came to know Jesus through your house church, would it be worth it | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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House Church Q&A, Part 2 | Repost: Part 2 of the Q8A | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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House Church Q&A, Part 1 | Repost: In this podcast I answer various questions emailed in by listeners (Yes, I used to do this, hopefully one day I will again! | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Simple Church Means to Me | Repost: People have different definitions of simple church. This is what simple church means to me. Note: I now much prefer the term organic church to simple church, but I thought this would still be worth reposting | 9/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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House Church and Heresy | Repost: I often hear people raise concerns are heresy in the house church. I believe that the house church is a better structure in regards to dealing with heresy than the conventional church | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laying Down My Pride and Ego | Repost. In order to fully pursue organic church, I had to let go of the "dreams of granduer" that I once had. This is the only way I could receive God's good plan for me. | 8/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What is God’s Will for the Conventional Church? | Repost. | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Vocational Pastor to Volunteer Church Planter | Repost: Sometimes I miss being a professional christian, but most of the time I don't. : | 5/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simple Church and the Body of Christ | Repost: I don't know how all of us believers are supposed to operate as one Body, but I'm glad that Jesus does | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simple Church and Leadership | Repost: Thoughts on the christian fascination with leadership | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being the Church | Thoughts on being the church in the context of simple church. | 3/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simple Church and Denominations | Some simple churches are part of a denomination, and some are not. Ours started out connected to a denomination, but we no longer are (not officially, anyway). What do we do with denominations? | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Simple Church the Same as Organic Church? | Repost: For years I considered simple church and organic church different terms for the same thing. Come to find out some people use these terms quite differently | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hard Things About Simple Church | Repost: Some people confuse simple with easy. Don't be fooled, simple church is not always easy | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Journey Into Organic Church | In this podcast I share my journey into organic church. | 1/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Interview with my daughter Belle | I was actually sitting down to do a new "real" podcast, and my daughter was here so I thought I'd have her say hi. Well, that turned into a little discussion that I thought was cute, so I'm posting it. Hopefully I will have the podcast I planned on doing done in the next few days | 1/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transitioning from the Conventional to the House Church, Part 2 | Repost: Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 is below) In this two part series I discuss what it was like for me leaving the conventional church as a career and entering organic church life | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transitioning from the Conventional to the House Church, Part 1 | Repost: Part 1 of 2 | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Very First Podcast | Repost: Sorry for the lack of original content lately! This is the first Simple Church for Simple People podcast, back from May 2007 (actually it's two podcasts that I've combined into one). As you'll notice I've become more long-winded over time :) Enjoy | 11/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is House Church the Answer? | This is a repost of a previous podcast that I haven't made available for a while. I originally posted it in January of 2008 my previous podcast host | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children & Simple Church–2009 update | This is a podcast with my wife Tricia discussing our experiences with kids in our church, especially how things have changed over the last two years since my original podcast about kids and simple church. | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children and Simple Church | Repost: I did this podcast back in June of 2007. At that time we had three kids in our church, one of them being mine, ages, 4,4, 8 2. Since then we have had up to 10 kids in our church (including our own second child), ranging in age from newborn to 8 years old. I recently listened to this podcast to see if my ideas have changed any over the last two years. My ideas have not changed, but we do have a lot more experience in the whole area of kids or simple church. My wife and I will be doing a new podcast on the subject, and I thought it would be good to repost this episode before we do so | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4 Things I Miss About Conventional Church | This is an older podcast that I am reposting. It's tongue in cheek, so don't take it too seriously : | 8/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Decision-Making by Consensus | I sometimes hear conventional church people say that consensus governance is impossible. I know by experience that it is not only possible, but wonderfully beneficial. Our house church makes decisions by consensus, and it has been a blessing for us. In this podcast I discuss why it works in the organic setting and some of the benefits we've experienced | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simple Church Multiplication | In this episode I share my experiences and advice with multiplication. | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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House Church: Fantasy, Ideal, and Reality. | I went into starting a house church with a fantasy about what it should look like. Reality was a different story. Turns out the ideal is somewhere in between. Recognizing both fantasy and reality is helping me strive towards the ideal. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Does it Take to Plant a Simple Church? | What does it take to plant a simple church? I'm sure there are many things that could be said, but these are three from my experience. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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My Organic Church Influences | The five people who have a major influence in my life in the realm of organic church--Neil Cole, Wolfgang Simson, Tony 8 Felity Dale, and Frank Viola (in chronological order). | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should churches have names? | Just something I've been thinking about lately. I'm not losing any sleep over it, just pondering :) | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It must be the money? | Is money really supposed to be so important in church planting? I think not. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simple Church and Politics | The two things we're not supposed to talk about in one podcast! | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reimagining Church Unity | Today I read a couple pages from Frank Viola's new book "Reimagining Church." (which I highly recommend, it is available at our bookstore, http://organicchurchresource.org). I was greatly encouraged by chapter 6, "Reimaging Church Unity." I'm glad to read that someone else dislikes church doctrinal statements as much as I do! | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simple Church and the Government | New intro and outro music courtesy of Whitecross: www.whitecrossmusic.com. Tax Guide for churches: http://churchplantingresource.org/Documents/tax%20guide%20for%20churches.pdf | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How do Simple Churches Stay Fresh? | Some thoughts on how simple churches can keep the fire burning. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why do Some Simple Churches Fizzle Out? | Why is is that some simple churches are strong, while others start out strong then fizzle out? I have some thoughts.. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simple Church’s Secret Weapon | Matthew Schwab discusses Simple Church's Secret Weapon | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Church Hopping | Matthew Schwab fills in for me to discuss the "other side of the coin" of Sheep Stealing--Church Hopping. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sheep Stealing | I used to believe sheep stealing was a problem, now I see that the concept itself is a problem. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 44 Episodes |
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