What is ministry? Is it only for professional clergy? What about those 58 “One-Anothers” in the Bible? Plus, our Heretic of the Week is Brandon Andress, author of Beauty in the Wreckage: Finding Peace in the Age of Outrage.

Show Notes

  • 00:20 – Introduction
  • 02:50 – Call into the Hotline about church as people and not being a place you go.
  • 14:13 – HOTW Brandon Andress introduction. Why he’s a heretic. Questioning hell.
  • 20:00 – The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd and The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy.
  • 21:57 – Brandon’s deconstruction process. Worship in the church building.
  • 26:10 – Church of Christ.
  • 29:10 – Jesus’s parable of the treasure in the field.
  • 32:22 – Jesus as the anti-evangelist.
  • 37:34 – Brandon’s book, Beauty in the Wreckage: Finding Peace in the Age of Outrage.
  • 42:33 – Shalom and Jesus.
  • 48:59 – Outside the Walls podcast. End of interview.
  • 50:00 – What is ministry?
  • 52:56 – Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy.
  • 55:01 – Hierarchy is turned upside down in the Kingdom of God.
  • 57:20 – God as a distraction to ministry. Humans are ministers.
  • 59:20 – Ministry as loving people.
  • 1:04:30 – Living our lives outside of the Bible.
  • 1:09:12 – Five-fold ministry. Gifts and works of service.
  • 1:12:52 – The early church.
  • 1:15:00 – Humans as mirrors of divinity.
  • 1:18:30 – Others-centered love.
  • 1:21:05 – Listening to people is loving people.
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