Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast – The guys start this week talking about systems and what they’ve learned (it may surprise you), before moving on to discuss some exciting and surprising changes that are taking place in both their lives and the Rock.  (“Say Good Night Gracie.”  ”Good Night George.”)

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This week Mike and Mark conclude their discussion from “Pact With The Devil”, and focus on the theology of “Penal Substitution” as the heart of the issue.

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Rejoining the conversation from last week, the guys explore what discipleship and spiritual formation look like, and wonder why Christians seem so incapable of affording each other grace, and what that says about us.

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This week Mark and Mike begin delving into the unnerving question about our methods of discipleship, and what we are really producing—or reproducing—while simultaneously addressing the issues that arise when our doctrines begin colliding into our relationship with God.

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Why is it that when I sense a leading from God and follow through, the resulting consequence so heavily determines my hindsight?  For example, if things naturally fit together and all goes well I am confident that I indeed heard God.  Alternately, if things fall apart or blow-up in my face, I suddenly am stricken with a rash of questions about whether I heard God at all.  My judgement of success and failure is quite irrelevant in God’s purposes, yet I behave as though it were paramount.  If I judged consistently by this kind of standard, I would be forced to conclude that Jesus’ life ended in total failure.  He died without conquering Rome or even the Pharisees who dogged Him night and day.  Did he miss God in it?  Of course not.  And this is a major problem in my life, for Jesus told us we would have trouble in the world, yet I judge any “trouble” as a sign I have missed God.  So how can a theology wrapped around my judgments of life be fruitful?  Where do I turn when everything goes wrong?   Read the rest of this entry »