Real Life Church: Recent Episodes
Real Life Church
A non-religious family of believers transforming our nation with relational integrity. Building a community where Grace abounds, and Miracles happen
A continuation of the series " Fighting the Good Fight" By Stewart Stevens 15 October 2023
An encouraging word on being the spiritual body of Christ we are called to be! By Wesley Pulvenis from Cedar Hill Church KZN.
Part 1 of what it means to SAY & STAY in the life of the church, By Stewart Stevens 03 September 2023.
Part 2 on an encouraging word on the trials Beneath the Mud, By Stewart Stevens 06 August 2023.
Part 1 on an encouraging word on the trials Beneath the Mud, By Stewart Stevens 30 July 2023
An encouraging word to remind us to Choose healing & wholeness at home first, then the rest of the world - By Amiel Gopal - 16 July 2023.
A whole new topic on following Jesus into healing and wholeness, By Stewart Stevens 25 June 2023
A new installment of a series on Building Friendships that Heal and Makes us Whole by Following Jesus - Part 2 By Stewart Stevens 18 June 2023
A new installment of a series on Building Friendships that Heal and Makes us Whole by Following Jesus - Part 1. By Stewart Stevens 11 June 2023
The 4th installment of a series on the wounds, wonders & why's of Christ. By Stewart Stevens 04 June 2023
The 3rd installment of a series on wounds, wonders & why's of Christ. By Stewart Stevens 28 May 2023
The 1st installment of a series on wounds, wonders & why's of Christ. By Stewart Stevens 14 May 2023
The 1st half of part 2's installment of a series on Holiness. By Stewart Stevens 19 Feb 2023
The 2nd half of part 2's installment of a series on Holiness. By Stewart Stevens 26 Feb 2023
Date:02/10/2022
New HUMANity is Ephesians Chapter 1
A New Humanity
Your theology matters
But “how you theology” matters more
It is not enough just to know your theology
It is what you do with your theology that matters
How the church matters
Not just why the church matters
Date:25/09/2022
New HUMANity is Ephesians Chapter 1
A New Humanity
Your theology matters
But “how you theology” matters more
It is not enough just to know your theology
It is what you do with your theology that matters
How the church matters
Not just why the church matters
Date:21/08/2022
Your theology matters
But “how you theology” matters more
You and Jesus is not the point of the gospel
We – together, are.
The church, her leaders and believers, who are called, mandated and created to love one another. Are often using our spirituality, our privilege, of being God’s people, not to be love but to be right.
We are not here to fight for space with the world
We are not here to fight to take over the world
We are not here to fight for a cause, a doctrine or denomination
So why and what are we here, church?
Date:17/07/2022
Most of us know that we have been given a good gift, but still do not know what that good gift is
And surely this is important!
Because we haven’t been given one or two, we have been given every single one of them
Date:07/10/2022
There must be a Master to create a masterpiece...
There is always a master storyteller
When we come to faith and accept Jesus as our Lord
We change the master story and the master of our lives
Because through our Master we understand us being a masterpiece
Date : 26/06/2022
The difference between Jesus giving to us, and us bringing what is His back to Him
Date : 05/06/2022
The Word, the World and my Choice
My identity in Christ
Truth trumps fact
I think a lot of us find our selves living in the middle in a comfortable place
It wasn’t a great day but also wasn’t a terrible day.
I’m not living a bad life, but I’m also not maybe living the life God wants for me. Just cruising…
But that’s not an option here.
Date: 29/05/2022
God, I don’t want to just be inspired, I want to be transformed!
I love it that Jesus rarely confronts behaviours, but He regularly confronts the heart.
St2 shares on a topic that nobody ever comes forward for prayer for, but we all need deal with…
Date: 22/05/2022
We can experience the power of Jesus and not come into the power of Jesus. We can encounter the presence of Jesus, but never become surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus.
It is not enough to be saved, we must become surrendered.
We have such poor theology of the ascension. The ascension was not about Jesus leaving the earth. It was about Jesus becoming King of the earth.
Why does this matter?
Join us and find out…
Date: 15/05/2022
The greatest revival that we need today is not mega stadiums and mega churches.
It is a revival that Jesus is Lord.
Given the situation of the "western church", much will now depend on whether we are willing to break out from a stifling herd instinct.
And find, Jesus is Lord, again, in the context for the advancing the Kingdom of God.
Date:08/05/2022
They are not three entities, but you made up with three interwoven facets.
Alison shares on the importance of being well balances in order to be whole. Let’s not be super-spiritual, but be healed, whole and delivered.
Date: 01/04/2022
As a prophetic/apostolic house we see in the spirit what the trinity is doing and we release it into the natural by releasing the supernatural with signs, wonders and miracles.
Words of knowledge, wisdom, and prophesy.
Date: 24/04/2022
The Lord has turned the page over Real Life…
We are entering into a new level of revelation to walk out with purpose and understanding what is written in the next chapter
Date:10/04/20222
Wrapping up our Luke 15 series
Why is Jesus’s story of a shepherd who loses a sheep, a lady who lost a coin and a dad with two lads, make, the listeners to upset that they would want to kill him?
How is this a portrait of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
How does it lead to an almighty, heavenly PARTY!
Date:03/04/2022
From the story of a Dad and his Lads.
I believe that there is an invitation from the Lord this morning
I believe God is inviting each of us, to learn how to parent
Because we can then become those who can…
With generosity and authenticity
Welcome sons and daughters home.
Date : 27/03/2022
Leaving home is easy when you want to run away. I wonder how many of us know someone who wants to live it up, before they are willing to grow up...
Some of us, today are not where we thought we would be in your life right now. And in that place of nowhere land dreams often die.
It is time to come home to Father
and to His family...
Date:20/03/2022
The biblical source of Jesus’ mandate to minister.
How does this flow through to the Church today?
Date:06/03/2022
Making the choice to grow and mature.
Choosing to have a life of adventure, courage, breakthrough and challenge.
A challanging message!
Date:20/02/2022
We are all called to make disciples.
We are all called to be disciples
It is not a suggestion.
Everyone gets it
Everyone gives it
How did this happed so well in the revolutionay eary church
And they did not have pastors!!!
Date:06/02/2022
Jesus does not save us into heaven, as nice as that sounds.
Jesus saves us into family
At some point we need to have the hard talk about discipleship, maturity and growth. To challenge those around us on the growth and maturity.
It is not a shame thing
It is accountability thing
It is a love thing
Date:31/01/2022
Jesus does not save us into heaven, as nice as that sounds.
Jesus saves us into family
At some point we need to have the hard talk about discipleship, maturity and growth. To challenge those around us on the growth and maturity.
It is not a shame thing
It is accountability thing
It is a love thing
Date:23/01/2022
We are at war for connection
Because in authentic Holy Spirit connections
Is where wounds get healed
Where confusion becomes clarity
Date 16/01/2020
THIS LITTLE INVITATION WILL CHANGE YOUR YEAR
IT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER
Date: 06/12/2021
The church exists for the city
The city does not exist for the church
Too often we have church centric churches
Churches that serve themselves
Kingdom centered churches serve their cities
Date:28/11/2021
The goal of God is not…
To get the whole city the church
It is to get the whole church into the city
Date :14/11/2021
Nehemiah is serving the King his wine. But long before he is serving the king, he has been serving THE King.
Long before he is standing in the presence of this man-king
He has been standing in the presence of a God-King
Long before he gets sent, God has already sent him.
It happens in the moment before the moment
Date: 08/11/2021
Living your Life
Life worth Living
Living and Loving
Learning thru LifeLord and Legacy
Date: 31/10/2021
If we want to be people that can actually live in the fullness of our day…
We have to be people of the Word
We have to be people of the Spirit
We have to be people of community
Date: 24/10/2021
The Difference Between People Encountering God&God Encountering People.
Date: 10/10/2021
Because I believe that God is leading the church into a season of clarity. The type of clarity that leads us to creativity, that leads us to compassion, that leads us to courage that leads us to clout in our community
So wht toi we ache after the past?
Date:03/10/2021
I believe that God is leading the church into a season of clarity
The type of clarity that leads us to creativity
The creativity that leads us to compassion
That leads us to courage
That leads us to clout in our community
So what is clarity?
Fear is one of the most destructive and yet tolerated issues in the church.
Faith is a deep confidence in who God is
And who we are in him.
So, what type of faith?
I believe to many believers think…
I have enough God for now
For too many believers that is their goal
I have enough of everything, even God!
Date: 15/08/2021
The church is not always the most beneficial thing, and the church has the potential to entrench our thinking…
Into a mindset that is not always accurate
Rev 3:15 “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!
Not the most endearing words from Jesus
But definitely attention grabbing
Join us for a fresh perspective
Speaker Candice Rossouw
Title Being in your storms WITH Jesus.
What are YOUR storms revealing about you?
What is the storm of COVID revealing about you?
Your Character, your commitment, your covenant
To FIRST Love
In your storms, how is Jesus being defined?
Date:06/06/2021
It is a tragically, that you can attend a church for years, and never grow.
You grow when you become the living church.
If we need a fierce theology of growth and maturity.
What?
Date : 31/05/2021
An encouraging perspective in winning, not just overcoming though our suffering...
Date : 23 May 2021
There will be a war in your soul…
But you can suffer with fear or you can suffer with faith.
You can suffer with God, you can suffer without God
The choice is yours.
You can suffer for the right reasons
Or you can suffer for the wrong reasons.
You cannot follow Jesus, without soul suffering…
That producing of Jesus likeness in us and through us.
But how and why. And, why church?
Date:16 May 2021
Most of us do not need more direction from God.
Most are so concerned about needing to know what to do next, that we miss the very presence of Jesus.
And Jesus transforms us in community in a way that you WILL NOT GET ON YOUR OWN.
Date 9 May 2021
This book is not about the antichrist
This book is about the living Christ
A difficult conversation:
A response to racial intolerance, gender-based violence, bullying, social injustice…
What is the heart of God?
A difficult conversation:
A response to racial intolerance, gender-based violence, bullying, social injustice…What is the heart of God?
Date: 18/04/2021
What is a disciple?
How did Jesus make disciples?
How does loving and hugging fit in?
How does hiking and dining grow Kingdom?
Date: 11/04/2021
The church is called to love our neighbours. FULL STOP!
What is Jesus’s example?
Join us for a challenging and poignant teaching on loving your neighbour, with GRACE!
Date:28/03/2021
I long for us to build an apostolic family that is big enough and safe enough so that every son and daughter can live into the fullness of their life.
Whatever it may look like!!
Date: 21/03/2021
In an ever changing world the church must embrace change too, or remain a relic of her past.
This is a prophetic and powerful understanding of what God has called His church to. This is Real Life Church!
Date: 14/03/2021
We cannot love a world that we believe we are at war with. Are we more consumed with our standing in church than our standing in Jesus? Most people in the world believe that a Christians primary focus is to make a statement not to make a friend We have created a war over agenda, over colour and so much more. Let’s commit to change. to becoming radical lovers of the world. Now that’s evangelism, 101, and it effective too.
Date: 07/03/2021
We need to become a people who give birth to a creative response in the world.
We cannot live in reaction to pandemic, to paranoia, to sin, to offence, etc.
As an apostolic and prophetic group of people, who have the mind of Christ, we should not just respond but we should redeem and restore the word.
We need to become less reactionary and more embracing!
The church needs to break out of its suffocating self-absorption to be able to move into, and to embrace the world.
We need to enter the ache of the world, where we allow the ache of the world to change us so that we get to change the WORLD, not just our home groups.
We can change the world!
Let me share how….
Date : 28/02/2021
When you truly encounter and keep encountering God…
He does not lead you into the “safety” of Christianity
He actually leads you into the places in the world that desperately needs someone who believes God.
So God is leading us to where religion cannot go!
Date: 21/02/2021
I am concerned that the church is on the wrong boat, looking for God in the wrong place.
Heading in the wrong direction. Moving away from the manifestation and the presence of God.
We cannot be the people that are only loved by God.
We have to become the people that are led by Him.
Date: 14/02/2021
There are people in this world who offend me. There are people in the world that I totally disagree with. There are people in the world that totally freak me out.
But God so loved all the world, I He did not. It would give me mu excuse to go my way and not His.
Is there a reason why the church is missing out on the Real, Radical and Redemptive promises of God.
Date :07/02/2021
John 3:16 is not just our favourite verse from Sunday school or a bumper sticker.
May it become an anthem to us.
“For God so loved the world...”
My prayer is that through this series and during this time of maturity and growth we experience a love that is so profound, that we as believers become the greatest lovers on the face of planet.
The world is starved for a love encounter.
The world is starved for a love encounter with God.
Date: 31 January 2021
John 3:16 is not just our favourite verse from Sunday school or a bumper sticker.
May it become an anthem to us.
“For God so loved the world...”
My prayer is that through this series and during this time of maturity and growth we experience a love that is so profound, that we as believers become the greatest lovers on the face of planet.
The world is starved for a love encounter.
The world is starved for a love encounter with God.
BY Mark Roussouw
Date: 24/01/2021
GOD is LOVE & JESUS is our blueprint example and the expression of what LOVE looks like.
Date: 20 December 2020
As a church…
We may have lived from community into love...
Yet, few of us have lived from love into courage
We can do the spiritual bumper sticker in the moment, but are we really willing to truly risk for God.
Date 6 December 2020
My desire is that in the next few weeks I will be able to lead you out of confusion and into discovering the Spiritual gifts. Increasing faith, and risking and releasing the promise of your authentic and powerful supernatural gifts..
Date : 29 November 2020
Before you embrace your spiritual gifting, you must embrace your spiritual family.
God releases power in a family, that is why this is significant
If I have not settled my belonging before God, I will use my power to get love from people, rather than give love to people
If I have not settled my belonging, I will use power not to prove Jesus, but to prove myself.
Date :22 November 2020
My deepest desire is not invite you to a message, a mornings meeting or a motivational talk. It is to invite you into a series of encounters that will transform your life and revolutionise the environment around you so that others will be transformed in and through the Power that is in you!
Date: 15 November 2020
My deepest desire is not invite you to a message, a mornings meeting or a motivational talk. It is to invite you into a series of encounters that will transform your life and revolutionise the environment around you so that others will be transformed in and through the Power that is in you
By St2 Steven
Scripture Luke 19
We need to move beyond passion. Passion is when you feel God. I am passionate about my nation. I am passionate about justice.
We must move to vision. When you actually see yourself on assignment with God.
At the end of the day, passion will not transform the world. We cannot stand before Jesus one day and say, “at least I was passionate”.
We need to change how we think and how we behave.
Join us on Sunday on-line or in-person to understand how and learn more….
By St2 Steven
Date: 10 October 2020
As Christian infants we always follow Jesus, but as we mature Jesus wants us to go ahead in our assignments.
We get commissioned, we get sent.
We are no longer just keeping up – we are leading, we are influencing, we are living life – and to the full.
Jesus wants to follow the obedient, the maturing.
Jesus wants to follow the Real, the Radical and the Relevant.
Is Jesus following you?
“When considering corona pandemic lockdown and post-corona gathered church, there’s a tension between the core basics of doing church that must be affirmed and in some cases put back in place, and on the other hand, some things are no longer needed and new ways of doing church have emerged. So, the tension between the ‘main & plain’ that must be affirmed and the ‘new contextual’ that must be pursued” Our Guests Alexander Venter Alexander is an Author, Teacher, Pastor, and a recognised Apostolic voice in South Africa. In the pre-democracy SA, he and his wife Gill were instrumental in forging cross-culture mission into townships around Johannesburg. They have been part of the Vineyard Churches international team and currently live in Ballito. (Alexander is a wise and safe friend. St2) Ryan Matthews Ryan and Melissa have led and growth churches internationally and within SA, living an apostolic assignment. Ryan is a one of the most liberating and encouraging leaders around. They are not leading a movement but lead an ever-increasing group of friends who led churches, business and so much more. (Ryan is a rock in my life as a leader and a mate. St2) Kathleen de la Hunt A true prophet. Kathy has been honoured and respected in the office of a prophet for decades. A lady of stature and strength her love for Jesus and bringing direction to His church is unmistakable. It is both real and relevant. Kathy is willing to go where men fear to tread. (I love this lady! St2)
Alexander Venter Alexander is an Author, Teacher, Pastor, and a recognised Apostolic voice in South Africa. In the pre-democracy SA, he and his wife Gill were instrumental in forging cross-culture mission into townships around Johannesburg. They have been part of the Vineyard Churches international team and currently live in Ballito. (Alexander is a wise and safe friend. St2)
Ryan Matthews Ryan and Melissa have led and growth churches internationally and within SA, living an apostolic assignment. Ryan is a one of the most liberating and encouraging leaders around. They are not leading a movement but lead an ever-increasing group of friends who led churches, business and so much more. (Ryan is a rock in my life as a leader and a mate. St2)
“When considering corona pandemic lockdown and post-corona gathered church, there’s a tension between the core basics of doing church that must be affirmed and in some cases put back in place, and on the other hand, some things are no longer needed and new ways of doing church have emerged. So, the tension between the ‘main & plain’ that must be affirmed and the ‘new contextual’ that must be pursued” Our Guests Alexander Venter Alexander is an Author, Teacher, Pastor, and a recognised Apostolic voice in South Africa. In the pre-democracy SA, he and his wife Gill were instrumental in forging cross-culture mission into townships around Johannesburg. They have been part of the Vineyard Churches international team and currently live in Ballito. (Alexander is a wise and safe friend. St2) Ryan Matthews Ryan and Melissa have led and growth churches internationally and within SA, living an apostolic assignment. Ryan is a one of the most liberating and encouraging leaders around. They are not leading a movement but lead an ever-increasing group of friends who led churches, business and so much more. (Ryan is a rock in my life as a leader and a mate. St2) Kathleen de la Hunt A true prophet. Kathy has been honoured and respected in the office of a prophet for decades. A lady of stature and strength her love for Jesus and bringing direction to His church is unmistakable. It is both real and relevant. Kathy is willing to go where men fear to tread. (I love this lady! St2)
By Alison Steven
Worldly HOPE is whimsical wishful thinking – “I hope I get a
new job”-its strength is in the desire YOU have. But biblical hope is so
powerful – because it’s an activation of faith (the things hoped for and yet
not seen) and its strength lies in God’s Faithfulness! My HOPE is that as
you listen to this, it brings hope into all your circumstances because as
Steve Backlund says “He/ She who has the most hope has the most influence!”
Bless you as you listen
Date 8 November 2020
By Mark Roussouw
In a busy and fractured world, how do we remain full of revelation, vision, and purpose?
It is not by becoming busy but by positioning ourselves at the feet of Jesus.
Mary absorbed Kingdom revelation from Jesus when she gave extravagantly, went into “no-go areas” and left her mark, not just on her family and community, but her nation and our world.
By Mark Rossouw and Ashleigh Simpson
16 August 2020
3 John 1:2 (TPT)
The unprecedented nature of our COVID-19 is setting the stage for us to practice how to effectively navigate through difficult circumstances and it’s accompanying emotions, thoughts and struggles. We believe that God is calling us to submit to the ‘cacooning process’ so that we can learn (and at times, unlearn) how to be effective within relationships. However, when we think of relationships we often think of the happenings between two entities and we tend to neglect the relationship that we are meant to have with ourselves.
We delve into the juicy and somewhat neglected region of emotional health and well-being and why emotional maturity is not only advised, but also required if we are to be effective in the Kingdom and satisfied generally.
ByCandice Rossouw
7 June 2020
Proverbs 29:18
Psalm 85:8
If we do not change the way we think, we will always be looking back at old
comforts rather than the inheritance of what God is doing. We need fresh
and current revelation of what God is doing.
We need to listen intentionally and listen intelligently to what God is
doing
When the ecclesia rises up and do what He is doing, and when we legislate
and release Kingdom, there is power. Your Kingdom come, on earth as it is in
Heaven”.
By ST2
We may be in the same storm, but we are not necessarily in the same boat.
The purpose of the church is not limited to preaching and teaching. We are
called to prepare. What do you believe and what are you doing about it?
Geography does not isolate us – silence does!
We need this personal revelation so that we can be a conduit from heaven and
not a “forward and resend” of other people’s revelation
By John Hutcheson
5 July
Pentecost Sunday-31 May 2020
Scripture Acts 2:1-21, Mt. 28:19-20
How did an obscure carpenter from Nazareth, who never wrote a book, who
never held high office, who never led an army and who died an ignoble death
on a Cross become the Man who has affected civilisation as we know it today
more profoundly than any other.
We are called to do work with God by going to all people spreading the Good
News. Grace & Truth!
BySt2 Steven
12 July 2020
Now more than ever we need to equip and empower sothat believers know wherever they are they create atmosphere and environments for people to come home before they come to church.No longer can we lead with a mindset that God revolves around the church, the church revolves around God
There is far too much confusion and polarisation in the structured church today that it overrides the relational foundation of Kingdom. There are too many people who avoid church because they do not want to be found guilty by association.
We are not just learning to embrace people when they come home, we are learning to embrace God’s people when they become undone.
By St2 Steven
5 July 2020
There is a generation is not long for a better denomination, but who are looking for family. They want a place where they can be fully undone so that they can become fully alive.
This is a story of two sons, ason is lost to rebellion and there is a son lost to religion. It is a story about an orphan who left home and an orphan who stayed home.
We are the most loved people and the planet becoming the most loving people on the planet. Church is a party and you do not become a spiritual father and a spiritual mother until you receive the party and learn to release the party.
By St2 Steven
28 June 2020
It’s about a father who has created an environment of love so that a son can come home to an environment of Sonship, identity, empowerment and authority. If we are truly following Jesus we should never be standing still. We cannot overtake Him and you must not lag behind Him. And often it is difficult to keep up with Jesus. And Jesus is still committed to leading us if we are willing to follow. If we are not listening to thenoisearound us but responding to thevoicewithin us. It is not about getting people to church, it is about getting people to God
By St2 Steven
Successful evangelism is not getting someone to pray a prayer or come to your church meetings. It is about getting someone, one step closer to Jesus.
The only way we get someone one step closer to Jesus is when we find a pathway to their heart
There is that the only thing that will transform most people…
Is an encounter with the unconditional love of God that should come from the body of Christ
There are so many people who have walked away from the church because of religion and control. We need to know that that the prodigals, that the orphans will never return to control and religion and manipulation and shame
But they will return to compassion…
By St2 Steven
Scripture John 8
Too often believers fearlessly give themselves to battles.
And God is looking on and thinking, “What on earth are you doing?”.
That is not what called you to. That is not where I call you to spend your life. You are literally wasting your time.
When we fight the wrong battles, we will miss the heart of God, which is transformation of the heart.