{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks","title":"Episode 10: Should A Church Reflect Its Surrounding Community?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1374,"description":"Does your congregation look like the people who live around it? If not, does it matter? How important is it that a church reflects its surrounding community?\nFor the latest Pastors’ Talk, Jonathan Leeman sat down with Mark Dever to chat about these questions and more.\nSHOW NOTES:\n– How hard should a pastor and a church work to reach different kinds of people? Changing music? Changing the way we preach or what we wear? (1:30)\n– What about who’s up front? Who gets hired? For example, should white churches seek to hire non-white pastors in order to reach non-whites? (6:00)\n– What counsel do you have for the pastor who leads a church that doesn’t look like its surrounding community? (10:15)\n– In being deliberate about these things, isn’t there a risk of “inauthenticity”? (12:15)\n– What’s the importance of a culture of discipling and evangelism, where members are consistently learning to love people across differences? (14:10)\n– How should pastors be careful about the ways they speak publicly on these matters? (17:25)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bnIE2C5lFRyGOvRekZQzcZmjGYVMjy9sj6ZNDLydLt8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOWZm/N2JhYmZmMzFjNWFh/ODUzMzE0ZTc5YjA5/MTUzMi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}