{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"Friendship is an ecclesial category","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3179,"description":"Jesus didn't call his disciples servants. He called them friends. And Stu thinks that matters more for how we do church than most ecclesiology conversations acknowledge.\nJoel, Stu and Tim are working through the emerging themes of Stu's PhD — and theme three is an ecclesiology of friendship and intergenerational family. Why friendship is a legitimate theological category, not just a social preference. Why industrialised schooling has trained us to only be friends with people our age, and what we lose when church reproduces that model. Why young people being listened to isn't a nicety but a theological conviction. And why a community built on friendship with Jesus produces friendships that wouldn't otherwise exist.\nPlus: the Luddites, a 1958 newspaper article about surfers at Cronulla, e-bikes doing monos, and Jesus beads in the 90s.\nTimestamps\n00:00 Welcome: Sky Guide and the World Cup\n06:00 PhD recap: themes one and two\n07:30 Theme three: ecclesiology of friendship and intergenerational family\n11:00 The peer group balance: too large and you never grow beyond it, too small and there's loneliness\n13:30 Friendship as an ecclesial category\n15:00 The metaphors of church: body, family, royal priesthood, and friends\n17:30 Why friendship was a powerful category in the 90s: Friends, Seinfeld and Cheers\n20:00 The Good Samaritan and who my neighbour is: church as one big friendship group\n22:00 The intergenerational revolution: what if Jesus is the basis of friendship, not special interests?\n26:00 Industrialised schooling and why friendship defaults to same-age\n32:00 Why young people being listened to was disorienting and powerful\n38:00 The youth council, the moderating voice and the shock absorber in practice\n44:00 E-bikes, surfboards and seeing youth culture with curiosity rather than fear\n48:00 Jesus beads, organic evangelism and what happens when young people have voice\n51:00 Preview of theme four and the limitation of the Shock Absorber when it institutionalises...","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}