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Lunch on The Way
Kia Ora Koutou, and welcome to Lunch on The Way! We're three guys doing theology over lunch, and sometimes we'll do that with others. We talk about church, culture, theology, philosophy, and more, always wanting to be as practical as possible. This is a thinking podcast more than a teaching podcast. We want to warn you, that what's said here is not yet complete, because, like any good conversation, you never want it to end.
Episodes
55 episodes
Visited a NEW Mormon Temple, Architecture is Theology, Reflecting on Mark Sayers Convo
In this conversation, Graeme and Joey discuss Joey's experience at Auckland's new Mormon Temple, how architecture reveals a church's/religion's theology, the craziness of the world, how Canada and US relations is a microcosm of the disruption t...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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Mark Sayers | Future Predictions, The Worlds Changed, America's Chaos, Being a Pillar is Dangerous
In this conversation, Graeme and Joey sit down with Mark Sayers and discuss what Mark learned about ministry during the Melbourne lockdowns, why embodied ministry matters so much, how proceduralism has blunted the church's mission, how the chur...
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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AJ Thomas | Is Preaching a Sacrament? Is Jesus Really in the Eucharist?
In this episode, Joey and Graeme interview AJ Thomas, who is one of the teaching and preaching pastors at Kings Church in New Brunswick, Canada. He also leads the Atlantic Kingdom Alliance which aims to bring together pastors and ministry leade...
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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Deconstructing Faith, Truth as Relationship, Trusting your Gut (whole over parts)
In this conversation the guys explores the concept of faith deconstruction and truth, emphasizing the importance of a holistic view of life. Many people deconstruct not Christianity but specific expressions or packaged forms of it, often driven...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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54:23
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CELEBRATING 50 EPs, Christmas Issues, Traditions Matter, Season 4 Expectations
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Season 3
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Episode 50
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56:38
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A fully alive human is the glory of God, is the church helping us be more/less human?
This week Graeme, Jonathan, and Joey discussed what it means to be human and how the church is the place that helps people become fully alive in Christ. This conversation centres on a Saint Irenaeus quote, "the glory of God is a human being ful...
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Season 3
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Episode 49
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48:37
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (Joey), What's the purpose of church? Critiquing the formation movement
In this episode Jonathan, Graeme, and Joey announce something big, critique the current formation movement as a potentially falling into legalism, how to live with wisdom on the formation journey, catching the "wind" of the Spirit, and the impo...
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Season 3
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Episode 48
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55:04
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The Endlessly Toxic Pursuit of MORE! Adjusting Our Assumptions of Church, the Mission of God, the goal of growth, and more
In this episode, Jonathan, Graeme, Joey break open a controversial topic relating to church growth and the pursuit of more. They undercover insights only someone who cares not for the consequences of thinking and questioning can unearth. Theref...
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Season 3
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Episode 47
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56:37
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Clint Ussher | Current difficulties and opportunities for the church, Church planting in NZ, Overcoming "success" identity,
In this conversation, Graeme and Joey sit down with Rev. Dr. Clint Ussher who leads The Well in Christchurch, NZ and the Centre for Church Leadership. It was an open and honest conversation about church planting, identity in Christ, what pastor...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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58:34
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Horrible Tensions in Ministry and Life ... or are they good?
In this conversation, Jonathan and Joey tease out the tensions we manage within the church and as we follow Jesus.00:00 Introduction00:42 Tensions are not problems to be solved6:11 Theological tensions to manage10:05 Slackli...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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49:45
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How to Hear God's Voice, Discerning Big Decisions, Problems with Being Certain
In this episode the guys talk about their experience of listening to God's voice and what that means for them, some of the problematic aspects of claiming you've heard from God, and a way forward to better discern God's voice during big decisio...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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A Complex Conversation on Power, Christian Leadership, and Jesus's Example of Power
In this episode, Graeme, Jonathan, and Joey discuss the cultural obsession with power and attempt to rebalance the conversation, pointing to Jesus as the example of what to do with the power you have.
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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Critical Incidents & How to Think Theologically & Reflectively for Positive Change
In this episode, Joey and Graeme discuss the importance of theological reflection in moments of crisis. They cover how to think well during critical incidents, what is critical thinking and theological reflection, the importance of crisis, why ...
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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53:18
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Will AI Make Us Dumb? Theology and What it Means to Be Human, Meaning in a Automated Future
In this conversation, the guys talk about Graeme trip to the US as a delivered a paper at the Media Ecology Conference.00:00 Introduction02:30 Graeme at the Media Ecology Conference07:58 Graeme's Experience of AMERICA14:30 I...
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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Sam Burrows | The Meta-crisis in Education, with our youth, and what can be done about it
Lunch on The Way is a podcast that deeply discusses Christianity, Church, Culture, and Jesus.Available on ALL podcast platforms https://lunchontheway.buzzsprout.com/shareIn this episode the guys bring back Sam Burrows to talk more a...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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Metaphors are Reality-Shaping, our BEST Conversation Yet | Horrible, Good, and Intriguing Metaphors for Humans
In this conversation, Jonathan, Graeme, and Joey discuss the good, bad, and intriguing metaphors that shape our understanding of the world, church, and our humanity. They discuss how metaphors create realities (03:30), what a metaphor is (06:10...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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Dr Clare Knowles | Bible Translations that shouldn't be read, Bible Society NZ's work
In this conversation, Graeme and Joey sit down with Dr. Clare Knowles who is a translation coordinator at Bible Society NZ. We discuss what Bible Society NZ is (12:42), the work Clare is currently doing with the Tokelauan Bible (14:18), cultura...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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59:56
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Frameworks for Evangelism, Habit Forming vs Spirit Forming, is Evangelism for Everyone?
Lunch on The Way is a podcast that deeply discusses Christianity, Church, Culture, and Jesus.Available on ALL podcast platforms https://lunchontheway.buzzsprout.com/shareIn this conversation, Jonathan and Joey weave between two main...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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58:54
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A "Dialogue" with Carey Nieuwhof, Church Shifts and Necessary Moves
In this conversation, Graeme and Joey discuss Carey Nieuwhof's latest Auckland, NZ church leadership and trends discussion but add their own thoughts to his "shifts" and "moves." They discuss how NZ church is 10yrs ahead of North America (3:08)...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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Problems with Business-Church, Believing yet Not Believing, the Existential Mirror We Can't See
Lunch on The Way is a podcast that deeply discusses Christianity, Church, Culture, and Jesus.Available on ALL podcast platforms https://lunchontheway.buzzsprout.com/shareIn this conversation the guys get honest and discuss last week...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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LIVE SHOW, Reinventing Church, Reforming for Authenticity, John Mark Comer again ...
Welcome to our very first LIVE RECORDING of Lunch on The Way held at Laidlaw College's Orientation Week. In this live conversation we discussed what's on Jonathan's mind (05:32), the church's need for reform (or not) (08:55), what true and fals...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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Professional Christians, Spiritual Comparison, Real Holiness, Entire Sanctification
In this episode, Joey and Graeme discuss the Waitangi Day (00:37), tease future podcast topics (03:37), what a "Professional Christian" is (05:01), critique Rick Warren's baseball diamond discipleship pathway (08:35), expose spiritual compariso...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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"Real Christianity," John Mark Comer's Critique of Church, and the New Martyrdom
In this episode, the guys begin 2024 talking about what "Real Christianity" is all about. They look at John Mark Comer's take on contemporary church service and Christian formation, and Jonathan discusses what the "new martyrdom" is for the mod...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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2024 Trends for the World, the Church, and You
In this episode, the guys look forward with the help of Sam Burrows to what 2024 will bring for the world and church. They also bring their sense of hope into an otherwise uncertain 2024.Email us at lunchontheway@gmail.com
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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