Mark Sayers, in this RED church sermon, provides a timely pastoral comment about our responses to the confusion surrounding same-sex attraction, the redefining of sexuality, and marriage, in secular society. He addresses historical, theological and cultural perspectives that impact how we understand these multi-layered issues, encouraging us to maintain a high view of the scriptures, and of sexuality, as well as a high view of love and grace.
The T4T Story
Ying Kai is the founder of T4T (Training for Trainers), which is one of the most dynamic Church Planting Movements in the world today. In 1999, Ying Kai (a Taiwan Chinese missionary) left Hong Kong for mainland China, with a vision to train reproducible disciple-makers (which he calls ‘trainers’). 
In less than a decade, T4T had multiplied a small band of disciples into a movement of more than 80,000 new churches, with more than 2 million baptisms.
Let’s listen and learn from missionary stories coming out of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. God is on the move! The T4T story may challenge you. It may also inspire you into passionate prayer, radical obedience and reproducible disciple-making!
The Intolerance Of Tolerance
This podcast tackles a tough but important theological critique of our culture. The speaker argues that our so-called ‘tolerant’ pluralist society is increasingly intolerant towards anyone holding a different world view.
Tolerance, Greg Koukl warns, is being radically redefined so that its meaning is reversed. Instead of accepting all people as equal, we are increasingly pressured to accept all beliefs as equal, to the peril of intellectual debate and societal health.
Greg Koukl is an American apologist, author and founder of Stand To Reason.
Do You Remember?
“Do You Remember” discusses the danger of memory in a world of consumerism, which says “buy now, get on The Road.” He implores us to return to our ancient stories so that the narrative of the bible might inform how we remember our world.
Andrew is the director of Venn Foundation in New Zealand and author of “The Insect and the Buffalo.”
The Road Home (Part 2)
“Life is not a journey of self discovery, but a pilgrimage to the cross.”
This is the second talk introducing concepts from Mark’s new book: “The Road Trip That Changed The World.”
Part 2 provides an alternative to the life-draining ‘journey’ narrative. It is our story, the Christian story, that promises paradoxical freedom through the dying of self and the pilgrimage of Jesus towards the cross.
The Road (Part 1)
“Life is not a journey of self discovery, but a pilgrimage to the cross.”
Our next two podcasts are from the 2012 Uber conference and introduce concepts from Mark’s new book: “The Road Trip That Changed The World.”
Part 1 challenges the cultural myth that life is a journey, explaining how our world view has been shaped from a cultural perspective.
The Value Of Losing Your Religion
This is an old favourite talk of mine by Michael Frost (originally recorded on tape in the 1990’s!) He explains that we need to be willing to lose our first-born faith in order to gain a more robust, second-born faith.
Look out for the marbles analogy… it’s brilliant!
