{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Reinventing Church","title":"49: Outreach the Way Jesus Did It","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3865,"description":"What if the best outreach strategy your church has is a meal? Shane Stacey of Clarity House joins Derek Sanford and Danielle Hartland to talk about church outreach beyond the event, and the church we hope to see: ordinary people reaching their neighbors with a meal, a good question and a blessing. \nDerek starts with the history. God blessed Abraham so that he would be a blessing (Genesis 12). Jesus asked a woman at a well for a drink, went to Levi's party, and sent a man he had freed back home to tell his friends. When Jesus returned to that region, four thousand people showed up. The early church kept outsiders out of its worship and still grew about 40 percent a decade for nearly three hundred years. Patrick's Celtic communities let people belong before they believed. Then came the age of the event: Cane Ridge, the anxious bench, and the seven-step seeker strategy, where the easiest step to count became the step we did. \nShane names the trust deficit, why a church of a hundred people has a potential reach of ten thousand, and the simple skills that open real conversations: opening your table, asking \"On a scale of one to ten, how's your week?\", listening for the three Ts, and letting a neighbor help you for a change. \nThis week's experiment: Before Sunday, share a meal or a coffee with one person who doesn't follow Jesus. Ask, \"On a scale of one to ten, how's your week been?\" Then pick one word from their answer and ask about it. Don't try to seal the deal. If you learned one thing about them you didn't know on Monday, you did it. \nShow notes, resources and the full transcript: https://dereksanford.com/church-outreach/ \nClarity House: https://clarityhouse.us \nGet The Ordinary Altar, Derek's weekly newsletter: https://dereksanford.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JL_9L6bkeNvVjjk1xHgBMuB4JZQuXAcirNatn_2xgkQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MWQ3/NmM3MTlmNmFjZWEw/ZGJmZTY4MTI2MDY3/Y2Q5Ni5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}