Last episode was the intangibles. This is the tangibles.

Joel, Stu and Tim open with the Met Gala, a $1 bill across Sarah Paulson's eyes, and whether millionaires protesting billionaires is tone deaf, before tracing the thread from wealth inequality all the way to how the church should function as a genuine leveller. Then they get practical.

What systems does Soul Revival actually use? How do you say no to a good idea without crushing the person who brought it? What is ministry slide and why does grace need to be structurally built into your teams? And what does teams not tasks actually mean, and why does it protect against utilitarianism in a way that pure efficiency thinking never can?

Plus: why prayer nights in the 90s drew the biggest crowds, what happened when the bands Soul Revival raised started pulling people to pub gigs on Saturday nights, and Stu's memory of a meeting 25 years ago where they cancelled all the plans and just prayed — and why he still remembers it.

Timestamps
00:00 Welcome — excursions, the Met and peanut butter sandwiches on a school bus
03:00 The Met Gala, Sarah Paulson and tone-deaf protest art
07:00 Francis Schaeffer — how philosophy flows through artists into culture
12:00 Wealth inequality, housing and the church as a leveller
19:00 Galatians 3 — no longer Jew nor Greek, slave nor free
24:00 Practical levelling — $7 meals, camp subsidies and families taking home leftovers
29:00 Church systems — ChurchSuite, communication across generations and the pigeon budget
35:00 How to say no to a good idea — the shock absorber in practice
42:00 Prayer in the service — building a bridge to a new reality
48:00 Teams not tasks — why friendship protects against utilitarianism
57:00 God gives different personalities — honouring everyone in the team
1:02:00 Ministry slide revisited and wrapping up

Discussed on this episode
Francis Schaeffer — The Great Evangelical Disaster
Andy Crouch — Culture Making
Robert Greene — The 48 Laws of Power

ChurchSuite — churchsuite.com

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