The Church Renewal Podcast
The Church Renewal Podcast
Latest Episodes
Habits of cSd People 🧭
Most leadership conflict is not solved by a better agenda. It is solved by better people, slowly formed into a discerning community. Matt and Jeremy pick up the Acts 15 Jerusalem Council and move from the biblical model to the habits that make ...
The Jerusalem Council 🕊️
One sentence from Acts 15 still stops me in my tracks: “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us.” That’s not a slogan. It’s the end of a hard, honest process where real leaders face a real dispute with massive consequences for church unity ...
Graciousness, Self-Awareness & Christlike Character 🌱
The fastest way to derail a church decision is to treat discernment like a technique instead of a spiritual life. We sit down to name the uncomfortable truth: community spiritual discernment depends on the kind of people we are together, especi...
Gospel Humility
Most leadership teams don’t fail because they lack information. They fail because we walk into the room needing to be right, needing to be seen, or needing the conversation to go our way. We’re naming that problem straight on: community spiritu...
Asking God Without Manipulating the Answer 🙏
Praying together can either soften a church toward God or become a polished way to avoid Him. Matt and Jeremy dig into a tension we see everywhere in church leadership and congregational life: we ask for discernment, but we come with a preferre...