The Leadership in Community Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lee Carter
The Leadership in Community podcast educates and equips Christian leaders with the missiology, community, and ethics of missional leadership. It serves as a spiritual formation resource to develop Christian leaders with the knowledge, practices, and models to lead diverse teams of people. The underlying belief of leadership-in-community is that our missional team members are created and redeemed in the image of God with the purpose of fulfilling the calling of Jesus Christ to expand the good reign of his Kingdom in their local and global contexts.
Communitas in missional teams forms us into a people who reflect God's image as we are on mission together. In this episode, we learn about five important themes in communitas: covenant, change, context, compel, and create.
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Andrew is back with us! On this episode, Andrew and Lee discuss an example of communitas from the Scripture. In the story of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15, we discuss how the church made sense of something new God was doing through through conflict, discussion, and dialogue with the Scripture. From there, we consider application for our missional leadership teams today.
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In this episode, we turn our attention to the next major theme of missional leadership: community. We discuss how our image-bearing vocation in the mission of God is defined by our participation in the community of God's people, people who are being formed into the likeness of Jesus and sent in mission to the ends of the earth as the witnesses of his good reign over all.
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In this episode, we discuss how glory is related to the image of God. We then look at five important missiological themes related to the image of God: communities of participation, The Gospel, election, embodiment, and human flourishing.
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of understand the image of God in relation to the mission of God. We consider worship, work, and rest as important components of human flourishing because it is through human flourishing that God carries out his mission to the cosmos.
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Lee takes a look at John 4, the story of the Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and reflects on the missional heart of Jesus. Along the way, we talk about living water, peacemaking, and the embodied nature of the mission.
In this episode, Andrew and Lee discuss what the Mission of God is and what it means for all followers of Jesus. Our conversation spring from chapter 1 of Lee's Book, Leadership-in-Community: The Missiology, Community, & Ethics of Missional Leadership.
On this episode, Andrew and Lee take a look at Romans 12:1-2 and discuss the necessity of spiritual formation for leadership-in-community. We talk about what spiritual formation means and how it shapes an incarnational missional movement lead by servant leaders that image Jesus.
With Andrew out this week, Lee discusses his reflections on Isaiah 60 and the theme throughout the biblical story of the glory of the Lord dawning upon his people. From Abraham and the temple in Jerusalem, to Jesus and his disciples at Pentecost, the people of God are a light to the nations upon whom the glory of God dawns as an alternative "body politic" that attracts the world to Jesus and blesses the world by reflecting his mercy, justice, and love. This excursus will set us up to discuss spiritual formation as the basis for missional leadership next time.
In this episode, Lee and Andrew discuss how traditional leadership concepts and paradigms can no longer support the weight of the leadership necessary for today's organizations. In a highly globalized world that changes more quickly than any one leader can keep up with, it will require team collaboration to make sense of the shared task and lead together toward the common mission. Also, missions can no longer be construed as a special calling on certain people. Every follower of Christ is called to be a missionary. So, what does missional leadership for a new generation, and indeed a new world, look like.
This episode introduces listeners to the podcast - its mission, hosts, and goals. We explain that the framework for missional leadership we will explore throughout the podcast is called Leadership-in-Community. We explain that the podcast is intended to be a conversation about this framework and how it can apply to our church structures and spiritual formation practices to prepare and propel missional leaders into the mission of God in today's crazy world.