Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast – Join Mark and Mike as they conclude their Sacramento interview, and find out more about where the journey has taken David and his friends. From the halls of religion to the uncertainty and messiness of vulnerable relationship, the guys continue to discuss what God is doing through Family Room Media, and in the lives of many believers in the Sacramento area.
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Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast – Recorded during a recent trip to Sacramento CA (yes, they let us into the country), Mike and Mark interview David Frederickson of Family Room Media about his journey. Former pastor of a successful church, David describes the process as God moved their church from conventional to “free range”, starting the process by dismantling their idea of authority.
Davids book: When the Church leaves the Building
DVD Series: Church Outside the Walls
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Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast - If we want to embrace a Kingdom worldview it seems necessary to allow scripture (in context) to shape our worldview, but often times we use scripture (out of context) to affirm our own worldview / agenda and call it Kingdom, with unhealthy results. The guys challenge themselves to trust Jesus and allow the radical and subversive message of the Kingdom to shape the way they see the world, others and Jesus.
The challenge is we all have a worldview, the way we have learned to see the world and make sense of what happens in it and to us. We all have them but they are all to some degree inaccurate. This doesn’t mean they are necessarily bad, just not always complete. The problem comes when a) we are oblivious to the fact we indeed we have a particular worldview and it has some effect on our perception of reality, b) when we are so firm in our worldview we are closed to new information or another point of view, c) we in our arrogance impose our worldview indiscriminately on others.
Mark and Michael finish the two part series on worldview.
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Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast - Looking through rose-colored glasses, and seeing through a glass darkly are phrases which culturally describe a condition where we admit that perhaps we see things in biased and maybe not completely accurate ways. This doesn’t imply the absence of absolute truth, but rather challenges our ability to know it absolutely.
The challenge is we all have a worldview, the way we have learned to see the world and make sense of what happens in it and to us. We all have them but they are all to some degree inaccurate. This doesn’t mean they are necessarily bad, just not always complete. The problem comes when a) we are oblivious to the fact we indeed we have a particular worldview and it has some effect on our perception of reality, b) when we are so firm in our worldview we are closed to new information or another point of view, c) we in our arrogance impose our worldview indiscriminately on others.
Mark and Michael begin a two part series on worldview. If we want to embrace a Kingdom worldview it seems necessary to allow scripture (in context) to shape our worldview, but often times we use scripture (out of context) to affirm our own worldview / agenda and call it Kingdom, with unhealthy results. The guys challenge themselves to trust Jesus and allow the radical and subversive message of the Kingdom to shape the way they see the world, others and Jesus.
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Two fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast - Mark and Michael are discussing structure and how healthy structures can facilitate healthy faith. Even “non-structures” are in fact structures themselves and can be just as dysfunctional as the most institutional ones. As always they guys bring it all back to Jesus suggesting the structures themselves can cease being healthy when in fact they become an idol – when we identify ourselves and our clan by them.
The guys also share after years of examining different models and lots of history, the common denominator in it all is human beings, so perhaps… just perhaps we need to examine why that is and some ways of growing beyond them! Guess what? We are back to Jesus! and around the mountain we go!
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