{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"Are podcasts good for the church?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3258,"description":"We make a podcast. Are podcasts actually good for the church?\nJoel and Tim are joined by Ryan, a theology student whose college project has taken him and his peers inside Christian podcasts to ask exactly that. What they land on is a distinction that changes the whole conversation: there’s a difference between formation and discipleship. Podcasts can form you. They cannot disciple you. And if you’re not asking who you’re discipling, not just who’s forming you, you’re missing something essential about what it means to be a Christian.\nPlus: the Reformation and the printing press, why Matt Chandler kept telling his online audience to go find a local church, parasocial relationships and the algorithms that cultivate them, and why Joel started talking like a Sopranos character during uni exam season.\nDiscussed on this episode\n\nTimestamps\n00:00 Welcome. Ryan’s podcast history and the Ethical Leaders Club\n04:00 How Ryan got onto this project and why street preaching didn’t work out\n07:00 Ryan’s story of becoming a Christian\n13:00 What led Ryan to Bible college\n16:00 Podcast habits: Tim’s two dozen, Ryan’s lost headphones, Joel’s mostly football\n21:00 Are podcasts good for the church? Ryan’s first observation (it’s costly)\n24:00 Tim’s case for podcasting: more bites of the cherry, formation beyond the sermon\n26:00 Ryan on universal literacy and the historical parallel\n28:00 The Reformation and the printing press: not a coincidence\n30:00 The two extremes: only one hour of church vs no need for incarnate community\n33:00 Para-social relationships and the algorithms that cultivate them\n36:00 Ryan’s two questions: who’s discipling you, and who are you discipling?\n38:00 1 Timothy 4:16. Watching your life and your doctrine\n41:00 Formation vs discipleship\n43:00 Mark 3: to be with him and to send them\n47:00 Unpacking Stu’s dishwasher: what life alongside life actually looks like\n51:00 So are podcasts good for the church?\nSubscribe, leave a review, and send your thoughts to...","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}