Rule of Life Witness 01: Begin With Love (featuring Ger Jones)
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Feb 24, 2026 
Ger Jones, lead pastor of Vintage Church in Los Angeles who builds open, nonjudgmental spaces for seekers. He discusses how Western culture has shifted and what that means for sharing faith. Conversations cover patient, relationship-first approaches like Alpha. The episode explores barriers to belief and the long, compassionate journey toward trust and curiosity.
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Witness As Communal Life
- Witness is intentionally opening our lives to others in love and testifying to Jesus with words and way of life in community.
- The New Testament model emphasizes many-to-many communal witness rather than lone-hero or one-to-many approaches.
Begin With Love And Compassion
- Begin every act of witness with love defined as willing another's good, not duty, fear, or anger.
- Let compassion (feeling another's pain) and sacrificial service ground how you speak and act about Jesus.
Ger's Return From Church Trauma
- Ger grew up in a secular culture without Christian friends and longed for ways they could explore Jesus without judgment.
- His own church trauma later shaped his passion to create safe spaces like Alpha for questioning adults.
