The Rabbit Trails Podcast

Today we talk about music and one of the world's greatest theologians, Bono, and why this is important to making Jesus known in this world. 

How have missions changed as the world is becoming more interconnected? How has it changed now that "traditional" mission fields are sending to the world? How have missions changed as Christians from cultures less powerful and culturally dominant that the "west" are sending people all over? We talk about this and more with Josh Irby, staff with Cru City. 

This episode we talk about some needed shifts in our paradigms and modes of Evangelism. 

Shane and Shane once sang "When did I replace serving you with knowing you? The trappings of "serving" God can often be that the professional Christian makes an idol out of "building the kingdom."

We often talk about how we cannot really reverse engineer movements that have been seen around the world. So why bother with a list of preconditions for outreach? Well, these particular preconditions can help us to gauge how we ourselves are doing in our Christian life and to prepare our labors and the ground for the gospel. 

Today we think out loud. So, this is like every other podcast that we have done...What is the connection between evangelism and play? Do we stop playing as adults? Or does our play become more sophisticated? If it does, is it possible that evangelism and play are connected? 

What is a movement? We use that word rather loosely in this day and age and we call a lot of things movement which maybe aren't actually movements. Are organizations movements? Were they once movements and now aren't? How does it actually work? Well, don't get us wrong, HR departments and the like of various organizations are essential to the organization, but it is important that we understand if what makes a movement is actually the idea or the structure. We foray into this a bit...

It worked! Great. Now what? Is it possible to learn the wrong lessons from success? We think so. 

People deconstructing their faith is a real thing and needs to be taken seriously. Reconstructing is also a real thing and also needs to be talked about. We wade into this topic again, hoping to process a little bit more along the way. 

How is technology adding to the burnout that we are feeling as a society?