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Rebuilders

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Rebuilders is an initiative started by Red Church to help churches, leaders, and believers grapple with the issues presented by an increasingly secular society. We firmly believe God is preparing to move and is rebuilding His Church with particular building blocks to enable her to flourish in a post-Christian, secular world.

Episodes

The Living Temple: S1 Ep8

The great Christians throughout history have a commonality - a deep communion with God. While the holiest of holies in the Old Testament temple was cordoned off by a curtain, and only the high priest could enter; now, we are the temple, the holiest of holies is within us. This is the deeper level where it is you and God and He speaks to your soul in that space. Listen out for: + The two levels in our inner world + Heaven being inside of us + The invitation is to walk with Him because He is alway...

Jun 26, 201925 min

The Living Temple: S1 Ep7

The temple has both a throne and an altar. A place for God to be exalted and a place to sacrifice. Our hearts often put idols on the throne, in God's place. The way we use our time can point to what idols we hold. Listen out for: + Unholy inputs + What do we put on the altar in the temple + The hound of heaven + Flourishing life starts with contrition and repentance

Jun 19, 201921 min

The Living Temple: S1 Ep6

There are many times when we experience heaven and earth overlapping during church services or worship meetings but we need to see our whole lives as a space where heaven and earth can meet. Listen out for: + Psalm 1 and the way to walk + Humans live in systems – inputs and outputs + Ways to flourish

Jun 12, 201927 min

The Living Temple: S1 Ep5

We often find ourselves living with two desires. One, a desire for a home, place, belonging and identity but then another to discover, to seek, to have moments of transcendence – these desires cannot be fulfilled in earthly things. The concept of the temple can help reorientate our understanding of the world to a more biblical one. Listen out for: + Temples as a meeting place between heaven and earth + Humans are God’s representatives in the world + Jesus is the new temple, the church is the new...

Jun 05, 201927 min

The Living Temple: S1 Ep4

We are currently living in a state longing for heaven and earth to be re-united. Like Tolkien’s words acknowledged in episode one: ‘everyone longs for Eden’. We are longing for a home, and that home we are created for is found only with our creator. Listen out for: + Living in constant dissatisfaction + Home is relational + A temple is where you live with God

May 29, 201925 min

The Living Temple: S1 Ep3

We discuss the need for a catalyst to change and pursue radical discipleship to Jesus. Listen out for: + Mythology of Western Culture + Renewal of spiritual knowledge + Thinking, by itself, won’t allow you to enter renewal

May 22, 201923 min

The Living Temple: S1 Ep2

Culture tells us we belong to one story one where the individual is the centre of their own grand narrative. Jesus invites us into something completely different. Listen out for: + The story we’re sold VS reality + Etymological navigation of the word: ‘CULTURE’ + The problem with the church and secularism + Devoting our lives to having the mind of Christ

May 15, 201929 min

The Living Temple: S1 Ep1

In this episode, we discuss what ‘The Living Temple’ podcast is and who, you, the audience are. Listen out for: + What are we invited into as followers of Jesus? + Why the name? + How we are longing and what are we longing for? + What is the western story we are told about the world?

May 08, 201919 min

Rebuilders 2017: Day 2 Session 4 - John Mark Comer

John Mark Comer closes the Rebuilders seminars with a session on engaging in the Spiritual Disciplines (practices) - modeled after Jesus' own approach to these practices - as the 'how' of discipleship.

Sep 02, 201743 min

Rebuilders 2017: Day 2 Session 3 - John Mark Comer

John Mark Comer continues his session on spiritual formation and discipleship, looking at a contrasting path of intentional spiritual formation and how this is pursued through practice and training.

Sep 02, 20171 hr 5 min

Rebuilders 2017: Day 2 Session 2 - John Mark Comer

John Mark Comer speaks in-depth about spiritual formation, and in particular, how the disciple needs to guard against 'unintentional' spiritual formation, instead, taking a long-term approach to transformation that is a joint effort between God and us.

Sep 02, 201745 min

Rebuilders 2017: Day 2 Session 1 - Mark Sayers

Mark Sayers opens day 2 of Rebuilders 2017 with an invitation to not just be haunted by a 'memory of Christianity' and the idea of a 'search', but to actually go on the search and live deeply in the desire for a heart of flesh and undivided spirit - signs of a life transformed by Christ.

Sep 02, 201720 min

Rebuilders 2017: Day 1 Session 1 - Mark Sayers

Mark introduces Rebuilders 2017 with an overview of the cultural climate in which Australian churches find themselves, and an invitation to take up the mantle of preparing the ground for a generation to rebuild.

Sep 01, 201740 min
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