Lifeschool 150: This is Why Your Church Isn’t Growing and Maturing

When we talk about how mature our church is, we often think about age, structures, and programs. But the church is none of those; the Church is people. Are your people mature?

In this episode of the Lifeschool Podcast, we talk about why your church isn’t growing or maturing with our very special guest, Alan Hirsch. Alan is a leading voice in the missional movement of the Christian West and a heck of a great guy!

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Lifeschool 149: How to Share Your Faith Without Being Weird

If you’re like most people I know, you probably don’t share your faith all that often. It can feel creepy or just plain awkward, and there’s always that fear of rejection.

In this episode of the Lifeschool Podcast, we talk about how to share your faith without being weird and how your “good news” can actually sound like good news to people. (Really.)

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Lifeschool 146: Caution: How Your Sunday Service is Confusing People

What would your friends think Jesus is all about if they visited your church? Is the way we’re often “doing church” really communicating what we think it is?

In this episode of the Lifeschool Podcast, we’ll talk about how the medium we often use on Sundays may be overshadowing the message we really want to share about Jesus, our Father and his amazing kingdom.

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Lifeschool 135: The Best Ways to Be Missional This Halloween

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Halloween… that time of year when kids all go nuts, eat too much candy, and then crash after their sugar buzz wears off. But there’s more to it than all that.

Today on the Lifeschool podcast, we talk about what may be the lowest hanging fruit of the year when it comes to relationship building and intentional missional engagement with your neighbors.

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Lifeschool 134: 7 Pillars of Society: How to Change Your World

It’s easy to point fingers at “the culture” and think that it includes everyone else outside of ourselves. But we are the culture… and the culture is us.

Today on the Lifeschool podcast, we talk about how every culture is woven together in some pretty similar ways worldwide, and we’ll look for clues from this so that, as Christians, we can find natural ways to engage “culture” and change the world… or at least your corner of it!

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