Essentials Podcast: Recent Episodes
Eastern PA District of the Alliance
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To effectively make disciples, our communities must be led by healthy and courageous leaders. This is an essential part of the community to navigate the challenges of change.
In our time together, we talk about what courageous leadership is and how we can grow in courage together as leaders in our churches. In this conversation, we are joined by Adam Eshbaugh, the Lead Pastor of Hope Alliance Church in Bethlehem, PA.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.
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Subscribe: Apple podcasts | Spotify In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.
To effectively make disciples, we must equip them to join Jesus in his mission. This isn't an optional part of being a disciple; it's an essential part.
Together we discuss how being on mission with Jesus is important for forming mature disciples and how our disciple-making communities can help equip people to have natural, spiritual conversations. In this conversation, we are joined by Ashley and Heather Holleman, who are a part of our State College Alliance Church. Ashley serves with Global Service Associates and Heather is an associate teaching professor at Penn State University and author of several books.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.
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Subscribe: Apple podcasts | Spotify In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.
Since transformation happens primarily in disciple-making communities, it is important for us to recognize the role that the community itself plays in shaping our people. Together we look at the elements of community that are needed for our development and growth in Christ and how church leaders are called to be cultivators of that community. In this conversation, we are joined by Shawn Andrews, Co-Lead Pastor from Daybreak Church in Mechanicsburg.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.
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Transformation happens primarily in disciple-making communities. If this is essential in our churches, then we will need to bring definition to what it means to make a disciple. David, Nate, and Alan discuss what they think are the core elements of definition of a disciple and how it impacts the ministries of our church. As a part of this conversation we talk with Brian Kannel, Lead Pastor at York Alliance Church in York, PA.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.
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Subscribe: Apple podcasts | Spotify In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.
Building off the previous episode where we discussed how the Gospel transformed us, we pick up with the idea that the other side of that transformation is that it leads to multiplication in our lives. In this way, as the Gospel works in us it naturally changes us to be people focused on making disciples of Jesus. As a part of this conversation, we talk with Steve Wiggins, Lead Pastor at Immanuel Church in Mechanicsburg, PA about a leadership development tool he uses called CORE to help people in his church understand what transformation in Christ looks like that leads to multiplication.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.
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In our first full-length episode of the season, we revisit the idea that our aim is transformation by unpacking how the Gospel transforms us and what it looks like to live that out in our lives and our churches. For this episode, we are joined by the Alliance Central District Superintendent David Lane.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.
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Subscribe: Apple podcasts | Spotify In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.
As we kick off our second season almost two years later, we breakdown why we decided to revisit the essentials by discussing what we have observed and learned since walking through COVID with our churches. From that we find that when something it truly essential, it stays essential and deserves our focus.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.
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If whole heart transformation is the essential end and a Gospel-saturated community is the essential means, then what are the tools needed along the way? in this wrap up episode of season 1, we look at the role culture, metrics, and structures have creating means toward the end.
If whole heart transformation is the essential end, what is the way there? What are the necessary ingredients toward that end?
In this episode, David, Nate, and Alan, discuss the means toward that end, which becomes a three part conversation about the community of the church.
In this third part we talk about the essential nature of leadership that embraces the challenges of change as a part of a community that is saturated by the Gospel.
If whole heart transformation is the essential end, what is the way there? What are the necessary ingredients toward that end?
In this episode, David, Nate, and Alan, discuss the means toward that end, which becomes a three part conversation about the community of the church.
In this second part we talk about the essential nature of risk and mission as a part of a community that is saturated by the Gospel.
If whole heart transformation is the essential end, what is the way there? What are the necessary ingredients toward that end?
In this episode, David, Nate, and Alan, discuss the means toward that end, which becomes a three part conversation about the community of the church.
A Gospel based response is required for whole heart transformation to take place. In this episode, David, Alan, and Nate break down what this means and looks like in our lives and ministry. You will hear us wrestle with a definition of the Gospel, it's implication for all of our lives, and how responding to the truths and promises of Jesus must be the basis for transformational ministry in the local church.
As continue to explore what is essential in church ministry, we begin with discussing the essential end. What is big to Jesus in the lives of our churches? What does it mean to have a Gospel impact?
In the opening episode of this new podcast from the Eastern PA District team, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.