Tag: church
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Ep 96: Where Are The Kids?
‘Jesus loves the little children’, as the song says, but Chris and Pete question whether our churches kind of hide them away. How are children better at the kingdom life than adults? Do we put as much value on what our children think and know as Jesus does? What are we missing by leaving our…
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Ep 94: Who’s Bashing The Bible?
Chris and Pete ask what is this ‘bible’ thing? Not an operator’s manual? Is it a user’s manual? Why can’t we get order by following the bible? And what is its ‘authority’? Why is it so often used for ‘bashing’ people and how did science make the bible central? Will the bible actually put itself…
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Ep 81: God, I’m Bored
Chris and Pete get excited by a really stupid question. Was Jesus ever bored? Is it actually a stupid question? Is there any value in Boredom and what is it like in our modern world? Is it worth just slowing down in our walk with a Jesus who never rushes. Was Jesus a mischievous child?…
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Ep 80: Should We Celebrate The Dragon?
Chris and Pete may seem uncultured, but they like to think that culture really matters. Is church culture really helpful and what happens when it’s not? Can ‘Our’ church welcome ‘them’? How hard is it to share our cultures, and who is doing all this work? Are we missing out on the joy of other…
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Ep 71: The Biopic Book
In the next of our ‘Bathroom sessions’, Chris and Pete once again suffer from Pete’s poor recording and yet still manage to discuss some pretty cool things! Like whose rules rule the church? What happens when we don’t agree? What if your church is wrong and the world is right? Is the bible mythology? Is…
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Ep 34: Maybe It’s Not a Kingdom.
We call God king, but, as Chris and Pete discover, maybe that’s just a way of fitting God into a human box so we can understand something impossible. So is there something better we can call God? And why can’t we easily find a way to refer to God that actually sums God up?
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Ep 33: Maybe You Should Do Drugs?
This week Chris and Pete get a very challenging email from Lee who ran headlong into a church who tried to help… but maybe didn’t. How do we know God is telling us something and how easy is it to get it wrong?
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Ep 20: Bono’s Big Question
In his book Surrender, U2 frontman Bono throws out a question that matters to us all. House church, Mega church, Local church, does Jesus even NEED the church?
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Ep 11: Why Are You Singing?
Chris and Pete look at one of those weird church things… all that singing! What’s it for? And what are those people up the front doing?