{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"Deeper than just community","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2971,"description":"People came to Soul Revival because of relationships. But relationships weren't enough to keep them. Something deeper had to happen.\nJoel, Stu and Tim continue working through the emerging themes from Stu's PhD, and this week it's theme two: Christian identity formation through conversion and biblical discipleship. The research keeps showing that people came through the relational front door, felt a real sense of belonging, and then encountered something they weren't expecting. The gospel was preached, clearly and consistently, every single week. And that's what changed people.\nThe conversation covers belonging before believing, cheap grace versus costly discipleship, the difference between a consumer and a participant, why the commitments group was the key to the culture, and what it looks like when your social life and your Christian life aren't two different things.\nAlso: Tim's Value Pack Sunday Christian memory, soggy spaghetti bolognese and the hip hop night that happened the night before the Cronulla riots.\nTimestamps\n00:00 Warm beanies, Square One godgles and a man who caught a shark\n06:30 Theme two: Christian identity formation through conversion and biblical discipleship\n08:30 How people came in and what they found: relational front door, explicit Christianity\n12:00 The production line vs the shared life: Paul in 1 Thessalonians\n15:00 The commitments group and the culture it created\n18:30 The hip hop night before the Cronulla riots\n23:00 Tim's reflections from the interviews: authentic whole-of-life faith\n27:00 Two kinds of belonging: sociological and spiritual\n33:00 Come and see: Philip, Nathaniel and the Samaritan woman\n36:30 Service culture: spaghetti bolognese, Romans 12 and costly discipleship\n46:00 The difference between a community and an event\n48:00 Preview of theme three: ecclesiology of friendship and intergenerational family\nDiscussed on this episode:\nDietrich Bonhoeffer — The Cost of Discipleship\nValue Pac\nSubscribe, leave a review, and send...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}