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The Church Renewal Podcast is a conversation for church leaders eager to see our churches refreshed by the gospel. The only fully sufficient reason that today dawned is that Jesus is yet gathering a people and using the church to do it. Come and join us as we dig into the ways Jesus is renewing his church.
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144 episodes
since Jan. 4, 2020
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One sentence from Acts 15 still stops me in my tracks: “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us.” That’s not a slogan. It’s the end of a hard, honest process where real leaders face a real dispute with massive consequences for church unity and the message of salvation by grace. We start in Anti…
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The fastest way to derail a church decision is to treat discernment like a technique instead of a spiritual life. We sit down to name the uncomfortable truth: community spiritual discernment depends on the kind of people we are together, especially the character of leaders. When a team prizes produ…
Most leadership teams don’t fail because they lack information. They fail because we walk into the room needing to be right, needing to be seen, or needing the conversation to go our way. We’re naming that problem straight on: community spiritual discernment depends on the spiritual character of th…
Praying together can either soften a church toward God or become a polished way to avoid Him. Matt and Jeremy dig into a tension we see everywhere in church leadership and congregational life: we ask for discernment, but we come with a preferred answer, idle curiosity, or a plan we want God to bles…
56 churches a day closing while Jesus still calls the fields “ready for harvest” should make every pastor and church leader stop and ask one question: are we actually listening to Christ? We’re Matt and Jeremy, and we dig into why church decline is not only about culture, budgets, or attendance, bu…
Some church decisions feel routine until they quietly become make-or-break: hiring a pastor, reshaping a ministry, closing a beloved program, reallocating resources, or choosing a direction when the “right” path is not obvious. We open season five by naming what we think is missing in far too many …
When you get to the end, you wanna be able to say, just like the Jerusalem Council said, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us." Mm-hmm. That is the hallmark of whether community spiritual discernment happened, that the solution that they walked out of on that day in Acts 15, nobod…
Your viewpoint actually is not valuable because I'm superior to you. Have you ever watched a church meeting end in agreement only to hear the real opinions beside the cars? If the real conversation can't happen in the room, the leaders in the room have made it impossible. That conversatio…
Hasn't this idea already led to spiritual abuse? Here is a question most churches do not ask until something has already gone wrong. What happens when a leader enters discernment with the answer already decided? It certainly can, done wrong. It's dangerous in the hand of a manipulative le…
Lots of churches close every year, 15,000 or something crazy like that, which is bananas. Sometimes Jesus has just left the building, and He takes the light with Him. Last season on the Church Renewal podcast, we looked at how anxiety shapes a church and the people trying to lead it. This season, w…
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