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In this second to the last 2021 Summer of Review, Jimbo teaches how to share the gospel of the kingdom of God in contrast to easy believism’s simple gospel of redemption. He walks us through an extensive kingdom gospel narrative, two keys to sharing this gospel narrative, including the importance of community, and finally, his counting the cost questions. All in all, Jimbo keeps up his radical call to move away from the mindset of conventional culturalized Christianity and take up a kingdom dweller’s lifestyle. Ready to get RADICAL?

Has your life in Christ been based on having prayed a prayer so you can go to heaven when you die? Is the way you live as a follower of Jesus simply doing your best, expecting God’s grace to cover your sins? Does your faith in Christ drive you to active obedience, or are you still making excuses when your life is not conformed to the demands of the New Covenant? As the 2021 summer of Review continues into week twelve, Jim Warren resumes his comparison of how kingdom Christianity makes and grows disciples of Jesus with the ways of conventional culturalized Christianity. In this episode, we look at the key issues necessary for becoming and making disciples of Jesus, or as some may say, “getting saved.” We will continue to see how this subject flows perfectly from our recent study of Philippians chapter three, verses seven through ten. One major reason the modern conventional culturalized church has fallen flat on its face is that most of us have gotten off on the wrong foot. Because of this, many will have to go back to the beginning to bring about the radical revitalization of conventional Christianity. After all, as Jimbo often says, this radical revitalization will only happen one person at a time.

After finishing the three-part lesson on Paul’s radical attitude and actions that resulted from his conversion, Jim Warren begins a new four-part lesson on Making And Growing Disciples. In this episode, Jim introduces these new lessons in the Getting’ Down to the Nitty-Gritty section of Cultural Christianity Versus Kingdom Christianity. He begins by defining sacrificial invested ministry as the heart and soul of authentic Christian ministry and outreach. He also speaks about developing redemptive relationships, which are essential to making disciples where the name of Jesus has already been heard. Throughout this section, Jim encourages his listeners to remember that authentic conversion includes the intertwined elements of repentance and active faith producing obedience. You will remember this from the lessons on Paul’s radical attitude and actions found in Philippians 3:7-10.

As the 2021 Summer of Review moves into its tenth week, Jim Warren concludes his study on Paul's radical attitude and actions found in Philippians 3:7-10. In the final two verses, Paul, acting as the conductor of the symphony of his life, introduces more instrument groups increasing the dynamic crescendo bringing every past note to a final dramatic blast of unique sounds. Each phrase of these verses calls every person to drop to their knees in repentance and the authentic faith that produces obedience. As he has in the past two episodes dedicated to this vital segment of scripture, Jim shares with you the robust meaning of both the nouns and verbs, uncovering a lifestyle hidden to the casual reader. This entire series of three episodes will be one you will cherish and listen to over and over again as you seek to live the authentic life of a radical disciple of Jesus.

In this 2021 Summer of Review teaching, Jim Warren takes us deeper into the unfolding radical attitude and actions of the Apostle Paul. Not only did Paul consider his religious and cultural life a damaged loss and a detriment to his partnership with Jesus and His kingdom, but now he adds more. In this episode, we learn that Paul was so radical that he considered the whole of every kind and variety of things in their totality not only a damaged loss and a detriment, but he saw them as doggy-dew to be scraped off his sandals! Paul commands us to have this same radical attitude and take these same radical actions in verse seventeen. So here is the question: “Are you eating doggy-dew sandwiches, or are you scrapping the whole of every kind and variety of things in their entirety off your shoe and focused totally on Jesus and His kingdom?” Next week we learn the results. Will you be ready?

YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS EPISODE! This part of the 2021 Summer of Review starts the most important three podcasts Jim Warren has ever created! These three episodes are so important they have become the basis of a new book he has written. In Philippians 3:7-10, we learn the radical attitude and actions of authentic repentance and faith. Unfortunately, these are missing from many of the conversions from the conventional, culturalized church. This missing element leads to a huge number of problems not only in the faith communities but in the lives of many who claim the title Christian. Thus, Houston, We Have A Problem! In this first of three episodes, Jim explains the three key ways we learn about life in the kingdom from the New Covenant, his intensified version of these passages, and how to get a copy of this version. Finally, he finishes off digging into verse seven. Verse seven forms the groundwork for understanding how radically intense, authentic repentance is in the life of a disciple of Jesus. Oh, yes, it is in these next three episodes where one of Jim’s favorite sayings is heard repeatedly, NO MORE EXCUSES!

The 2021 Summer of Review continues with the final episode defining kingdom Christianity. Having shown that the terms kingdom of God and kingdom of heaven are interchangeable and that the entire message of the New Covenant is the gospel of the kingdom of God, Jim presses us on to the ramifications. If the gospel is all about the kingdom of God and not going to heaven when we die, the question that should come to your mind is, “When will God establish His kingdom?” Are you, after being saved, waiting around for what will happen while you do your best? Do you clutch tightly to that one-way ticket to the celestial retirement home waiting for Jesus to snatch you out of this world? Is that all there is? Time to wake up! The thinking behind these ideas is neither the gospel nor the calling of God upon your life. It is time to have your world turned inside-out and upside-down! The kingdom you await is HERE! NOW!

In last week’s Inside Jimbo’s Head segment of the Hello, Jimbo Speaking Podcast, Jim Warren started sharing the Biblical perspective on the Kingdom of God with some first thoughts on why “kingdom of God” and “kingdom of heaven” are interchangeable terms. He continues those thoughts in this episode and then turns to something that will “blow your socks off.” Jim will define for you the gospel! Think you do not need to listen to this one because you know the gospel? Well, guess what? The gospel you may have heard was probably about going to heaven when you die and having God’s help to do your best until you get there. If that is the case, what Jim has to say about the gospel of the kingdom of God will turn your world inside-out and upside-down! Go ahead. Give it a listen. But beware! This episode will change EVERYTHING. LET'S GET RADICAL!

In this podcast on “What is Kingdom Christianity?” Jim Warren reviews what has been said in previous podcasts about the fastest growing church in the world, the church in Iran. First, however, he talks about the effects this move of God has had on Western missionaries who have spent time studying this unique, first-century model of Christianity. Then, after sounding the trumpets, Jim begins his Biblical perspective on the kingdom of God as he answers the questions, “What is Kingdom Christianity?” This first episode will give you a great overview of the subject and instill in you the reality of God’s kingdom already on the earth in this age. As Jim puts it, “It’s time to stop waiting for the future, for the future is NOW!”

On this week’s 2021 Summer of Review, we go back to January of 2020, where Jim Warren, Jimbo, was finishing up answering the question, “What is Cultural Christianity?” Taking in the basic premises of any culture has always been disastrous to the church down through history. However, in the last century, the seepage of American cultural principles has brought the church to its knees. While this may come as a big surprise to most 21st Century American Christians, the facts do not lie. In the last episode, Jim discussed how rationalism and individualism are antithetical to the principles of God’s kingdom. In this episode, he takes on the foundational principles of American culture, pragmatism, and independence. Finally, Jim summarizes all four episodes that have tried to answer “What is Cultural Christianity?”