{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ordinary Discipleship Podcast","title":"Shaped by Story","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1179,"description":"What if discipleship isn’t about trying harder, learning more, or getting your theology exactly right—but about being reshaped at the level of story and identity?\nIn this episode of The Ordinary Discipleship Podcast, Jacob is joined by Jessie Cruickshank and Julia Schmaltz to explore how God actually forms us. Drawing from their book Becoming Good News, they unpack how discipleship works not primarily through information, but through experience, story, and the way God designed our minds and bodies to change.\nThe conversation weaves together neuroscience, theology, and lived experience—especially the role of autobiographical memory, identity formation, and the stories we live out of every day. Along the way, they challenge performance-based models of discipleship and offer a hopeful vision: God has already built transformation into us. Our task is not to strive, but to surrender and participate.\nIf you’ve ever felt inadequate to make disciples, exhausted by “trying harder,” or curious about how faith actually works on Monday morning, this episode opens a different way forward.\nIn this episode, you’ll explore:\nWhy most discipleship fails when it relies on information alone\nThe difference between semantic memory and autobiographical memory\nHow story shapes identity and transformation\nWhy faith is relational before it is doctrinal\nWhat it means to “become good news” rather than just talk about it\nPre-Order Jessie and Julia's book Becoming Good News: Reimagining Discipleship Through Identity, Story, and Science\nORDER Jessie’s book, Ordinary Discipleship: How God Wires Us for the Adventure of Transformation\nFor more great stuff, check out: Ordinary Discipleship by Whoology: https://whoology.co\nFollow us on social media:\nhttps://instagram.com/ordinarydiscipleship\nhttps://facebook.com/ordinarydiscipleship\nFollow Jessie on social media:\nInstagram: https://instagram.com/yourbrainbyjess\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.s.cruickshank/\nTwitter:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tPeHNZxrWujvqaQ2PZnsP_awg-UbW7tpBQqGIT3bTd0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNTJj/MTAxOTA2YWEzMzM5/ODNkYTBhY2VkMzA5/YWU4My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}