The Venture 12 Podcast

This week, we meet Mattias Demaerel and Dennis Delbaere, the founders and leaders of 'Recruits,' a rapidly multiplying disciple-making movement transforming young lives in Belgium. We explore the core principles and ideas fueling this movement and witness the powerful impact they're having as more and more groups emerge and spread across the country and beyond.

Tod Bolsinger is a leadership expert and author, known for his work on adaptive change and resilient leadership. He serves as the Senior Congregational Strategist for the Church Leadership Institute and is an Affiliate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Tod has written several influential books, including "Canoeing the Mountains" and "Tempered Resilience. In this episode we talk to Tod about what the future of Christian leadership, ministry and training in rapidly changing world. Enjoy! "The future of leadership will begin with you getting comfortable with what psychologists say are the 3 hardest words for a human to say. I don't know. Most of us were trained never to say I don't know and so we fake it until we make it. We pretend we know, we act as if we knew all along. We believe that people only trust us if we have a solution or an idea. There's something actually, really, really powerful about someone who has great integrity. Who has demonstrated great credibility and trustworthiness to say the thing we're facing I've never done before. I don't know what to do, but it is ours to do. So will you join me in it. And that's when leadership of the future starts, it actually starts with, I don't know but we're gonna go, anyway. So let's go".

Our special guest today shares significant moments from his life story and how his journey has taken him from the Middle East to church leader in Scandinavia

In this episode we talk to Mark Nelson, church planter and pastor, and Heather Gorman, professor of New Testament about the divide and polarization we see in our world today. With insights from their new book “Lunchroom theology” they help us explore if there’s a different way we can live in this divided world, more aligned to the ways of Jesus? Hosted by Hanna Mingay and Chris Mingay

In this episode we talk to Rich Robinson about his new book All Change, Unlocking Kingdom Potential in a World Weren't Prepared For. Over the years Rich has led pioneering work in missional disciple making, kingdom innovation and organisational change across the world and this conversation is laced with insight, practices and processes drawn from the life and ministry of Jesus and those personal hard won experiences across many frontiers and contexts. If you are sensing, experiencing, or dreaming of change, then this book will certainly be a great gift and companion for the road ahead. Enjoy allchangejourney.com

Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and proceeds from the cross. In fact, within the narrative of Scripture, the crucifixion of Jesus is literally the crux of the story―the axis upon which the biblical story turns. In our ongoing quest to make meaning of the cross, we need to recognize that this conversation will never conclude―that there is always something more to be said. In this episode Brian Zahnd invites us to experience the kaleidoscopic mystery of the cross and the infinite ways to behold the crucified Christ as the beautiful form that touches and transforms all aspects of life.

In this episode, we are joined by two friends from Palestine. They share the history and plight of the Palestinian people, as well as open up about their own personal experiences and impact that the latest Israeli invasion in Gaza has had on them and those around them.

We speak to Angela Lam, founder of Hagar's Voice about abuse and the environments that enable them in the church but also how we can find routes to healing and safe spaces of transformation in the movement that Jesus started. HagarsVoice.com ClergySexualMisconduct.com Infinitum's True Self Check In Book Recommendation: Faith in the Face of Empire by Mitri Raheb Hagar's Voice on Socials @HagarsVoice (Facebook and Instagram

In this episode we talk to Rickard Cruz, missional leader and co-founder of Katalysator Sweden which has vision to plant the good news of Jesus in every place, in every ethnic group and in every subculture. In this conversation Rickard shares his experience and helps us reflect upon how we can meet our muslim neighbors and friends with a heart to learn and posture of curiosity to see what the spirit is already doing in their lives and attuning to loving ways we can speak about Jesus. https://www.rickardcruz.se www.katalysator.net

In this episode we meet Guillermo Navarrete and Seth Clark, who share with us the powerful story of Border Church and La Iglesia Fronteriza. This remarkable expression of the body of Christ at the San Diego-Tijuana border demonstrates its love for Christ through serving suffering humanity, pursuing justice for migrants and using their pinkies to pass the peace through the mesh metal walls between U.S and Mexico as part of their distinct and profound expression of worship. Church at the Wall Seth David Clark Church at the Wall: Stories of Hope Along the San Diego-Tijuana Border https://www.amazon.com/Church-Wall-Stories-Diego-Tijuana-Border/dp/0817018301