Non-Anxious Churches: Recent Episodes
Mark Knight
Cultivating a church culture that isn't lost in the sea of anxiousness, one podcast at a time.
Email - nonanxiouschurches@gmail.com -- I would love to hear your stories - for good or for ill.
Let's ask a question that seems to be more and more relevant these days, in light of all the problems in the megachurch world. Are Megachurches the ideal church model?
Today - let's look a little closer at fame. Consider the words of C.S. Lewis and our desire to be praised.
What do you do about success or failure? Or both? What does that have to do with publishing a book or the ministry of a non-anxious church? Listen today to hear more.
Does your church have a culture of confession and repentance? Or is it "pretending everyone has it all together"?
What's the role of the church in deconstruction? Lots to talk about here. Is the church culpable when it comes to deconstruction? What can a church do in the process of deconstruction? How does that work?
Riffing off an idea from David French and Skye Jethani, we consider the anxious postures of fear and hate and how churches embody them. What's the solution and where do we go?
Today we finish up our conversation about the role of a Pastor and what it is they do in their vocation. We look at some of where we've gone wrong and what it looks like to find our way back.
Let's look in a grand view sort of way at the role of a pastor. What is a pastor to do? Why? How should a pastor think about their job description?
The origins story of this podcast and this project. And some big news to share with the podcast family.
Let's look at Exodus 18 and 19 and discuss what it looks like to work out of a place of rest instead out of a place of obligation.
We are burning people out for we've taught them that to do church right, you need to work, work, work and produce, produce, produce. And people are exhausted.
In this episode, we look at Millenials' desire for authenticity and why some of them are no longer going to church. What we can do about it? What the church should be focused on and why obligation tends to win the day.
Why do pastors have moral failures? What is there to do about it? Pastor Mark explores these through his own lens of endurance for the long haul.
Talking about creating healthy culture, non-anxious church. How is culture created? How can we practically create a church that is healthy and non-toxic? Pastor Mark offers ideas and thoughts on this very important topic.
Pastor Mark and Emily Brown talk about being a millennial in church, refugee resettlement, anxious churches, control the narrative, messy church, and much more. This is a great conversation about Non-Anxious Churches - you will want to hear this discussion.
How did we build up the church of exhaustion? Why is church one of the most exhausting days of the week for many volunteers? What can we do about it?
Should churches use a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)? Is this a posture and procedure of an anxious church? Why would a church want to us an NDA? Let's talk all about this in this episode of Non-Anxious Churches.
Is anxiously driven churches part of the reason we are seeing people leave churches?
Why are people leaving? What can we do about it?
In this episode, we explore the fruit of an anxious tree. What is that fruit? Why is does it look good and even seem attractive to many?
We look at one of the common things we see come up in the new hit podcast from Christianity Today, "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" about how Mars Hill was "producing so much fruit." What is that about? Could it have been anxious fruit?
In the first episode of the Non-Anxious Church podcast, we look at the ever-growing anxiousness in our world and churches. If the world is weary, we need more pastors that are pastors - introducing people to Jesus.