Transforming Mission Leadercast With Tim Bias & Sara Thomas

Find show notes and a download for this episode at https://transformingmission.org/006 Episode 006: Being and Becoming Hope How can you offer HOPE to the people around you?   The local church offers us opportunities to rehearse being people of hope. But, in many places, the structure of the church is fractured. So let's remember, hope is a future-oriented, faith-filled action. In this episode, Tim and Sara have a conversation about bringing hope to life in a local church and in daily living. During this episode, we confront some of the challenges we face and what holds us back from being who God has created us to be. As we explore our experiences of introducing a disciple-making pathway to others, we also reflect on the daily opportunities to rehearse our God stories. We weave together the four aspects of a disciple-making system and offer ways we can seek to live as disciples of Jesus in our every day, ordinary life. This Week's Download Pathways of Hope – A Free, four-part Disciple Making Resource for you &

Show notes for this episode can be found at https://transformingmission.org/005 Episode 005: Engagement - Sharing God's love in service with others. Where is God sending you? No, we're not talking about being sent to distant lands, but being sent into our local communities. On this episode of LeaderCast, Tim and Sara share about people and congregations they've led in serving with others. As you'll quickly find out, engagement is about our relationships with others. Whether you're trying to build a disciple-making pathway, or simply looking for a way to engage with your community, this episode offers two questions that will help you identify how you can serve with others by first listening to God. Finally, this episode wraps up our four-part series on Disciple Making Pathways using the acronym HOPE. Hope is received and offered as we share God's love in service with others. ps- Sara finally realized the word for animals that were stuffed for preserving for the purpose of display or study is called taxidermy.

Practices - Growing in Grace How do you practice the faith? Perhaps you worship weekly, read the Scriptures, and pray. Those are great examples of practices. As you'd likely expect, we push you to go deeper with that thought and reflect on a rhythm or daily practice as well as congregational practices. Let us offer a simple rhythm anyone can follow from anywhere. Read the Scripture Reflect on the Scripture Respond to the Scripture in word and deed. You'll find links to our most recent studies in the "Mentioned in this Episode" section. This Week's Download Pathways of Hope – A Free, Four-Part Disciple Making Resource for you & your congregation. Sign me up! Mentioned in this Episode READING PLANS Download a Reading Plan for Parables Download a Reading Plan "Get Real" Download a Reading Plan "Awaken to God's Presence"   Download a Reading Plan "Emmanuel: God with Us" PREVIOUS EPISODES Episode 002: Hospitality Episode 003: Offering Christ DOWNLOADS Pathways of Hope – A free, four-part Disciple Making Re

Find the show notes at transformingmission.org/003 What is your grace story?   Or maybe you call it a God story. Whatever you call it, God's grace is present in your life. The question is, how is God offering Christ to us? And how are we sharing the grace we receive with others? This episode we explore another aspect of a disciple-making pathway, offering Christ. As you'll hear, we're talking about more than activity. We're inviting you into a way of life that shares the love of Jesus with others in the way we live. Here are a few questions to help you reflect on God's grace in your life: What experience did you have with Jesus this week? How has God’s love become real in your life? Where have you witnessed the light of Christ? What had been your experience of God’s love? How has it made a difference in your living? In your relationship with others outside your church? Inside your church? How has your church helped you experience Jesus? God’s love? To related to others? This Week's Download Pathways of Hop

What does it really mean to be people of hospitality? It may mean to receive the love God offers to us so we can share God's love with others. However you think of hospitality right now, it's probably not how you'll hear Tim and Sara explore this essential element on a disciple-making pathway. We introduce the acronym of HOPE to help you remember the four essential aspects of a disciple-making pathway. If we're going to lead a movement of Jesus followers, one of the things we need to do is be and become people of hospitality. Why Hospitality? Hospitality is a relationship. It is a response to God’s love. If you haven't heard it lately, God loves you. Hospitality happens in daily life and in the life of a congregation. It can use tools, but it is not the tools we use that make the difference. Hospitality is an embracing of one another. That’s because hospitality may be best described as God’s embrace. How is God is embracing you at this moment? How are you are responding to the embrace of God by opening your a

In this episode, Tim Bias offers a teaching on the parables. He gives us four approaches to the parables. Then, shares his preference for approaching the parables.  Then, Tim and Sara have a conversation about the parables and we offer you a reading plan and study questions to reflect on parables from Luke's Gospel.    MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Download a Reading Plan for Parables TransformingMission.org  

Woo-hoo! The day has finally here.  We're getting this podcast party started.  Transforming Mission's LeaderCast: insights and resources you need to lead a movement of Jesus followers.  We'll cover topics that trip us up, hold us back, and guide us forward. WHO SHOULD LISTEN? Leaders who help people follow Jesus Anyone seeking to follow Jesus MENTIONED ON THIS EPISODE: Transforming Mission Website Transforming Mission Facebook Page Transforming Mission's Twitter Feed Transforming Mission on Instagram David Bosch's Book, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission David Bosch Quote: "Mission is thereby seen as a movement from God to the world; the church is viewed as an instrument for that mission. There is the church because there is a mission, not vice versa. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people; since God is a fountain of sending love."