The Jesus Conversations Podcast

JAU Zoom Meeting 3-13-22 ”What really is submission?”

Prompted by a recent article claiming evangelical Christians are promoting misogyny, our discussion centered on the controversial topic of submission. Knowing that we are one with and living as Jesus, what does submission look like? Is it top-down command and control or something else? Doesn't Paul teach command and control? How can Jesus be our Master and our life at the same time?

JAU Zoom Meeting 3-6-22 ”This is a safe place”

For months, we have been talking about what it means to live as Jesus, or Jesus as Us. In this episode of our Zoom meeting, we share what it means to know Jesus as church. What does that mean? How does a community manifest Jesus? One of the chief attributes is that it is a "safe place" to share and love one another.

 

The article link on Christian misogyny

Christian nationalism is rooted in stupid tough-guy misogyny: What would Jesus say? | Salon.com

 

JAU Zoom Meeting 2-27-22 ”Is there an answer?”

Our conversation in this episode included a comparison of how our contemporary Christian culture attempts to explain our daily circumstances in a logical or systematic way. This is how Christian teachers try to manage the narrative or paradigm of our lives being separate from God. That narrative will never have adequate answers.

JAU Zoom Meeting 2-20-22 ”Seeing Jesus Everywhere”

The highlight of our conversation in this episode was seeing our brother Arnold live on our Zoom call following his major surgery this week. We "realize" or recognize God in Arnold's health crisis. We also discussed other places where we have recognized God's presence and work in our lives. Christ in us is an adventure, discovering Jesus everywhere.

TJCP - ”Is Jesus happy with the mainline church?” 2-19-22

Dennis and Scott look back at the experiences they had in the institutional, mainline church. They agree that Jesus was there, but was He happy with all the religiosities? Did He dislike the pastors and leaders for the same things that the Pharisees were doing centuries before? Is this why people are leaving the mainline church today? What would society and the world be like if the true church continued like it did in Acts 2?

Scott's blog link - https://myscottpage.blogspot.com/

JAU Zoom Meeting 2-13-22 ”The next step to my real life”

Our group picked up the question from last week, "How to pray for someone", which led to deeper digging into realizing what is happening around us in the unseen dimension. What we see around us is not the real life that we live in Jesus. One of our group members shared these realizations are "the next step to my real life".

”I just realized Jesus lives in me. Now what do I do?” 2-5-22

Dennis is joined again with Scott Wakefield in this episode. They tackle how to help someone who has just realized the truth of Christ living in them. Can the person resort to the old conventions of Christian teaching or is there a whole new framework of words and constructs that need to be entertained? How is even Scripture to be read and studied? 

Resources cited in this conversation can be found on the Resource page of our website at www.nwmenscolition.com 

JAU Zoom Meeting 2-6-22 ”How to Pray for Arnold”.

One of the members of our JAU Zoom group, Arnold Quigley, faces another series of medical procedures for total hip replacement. This will not be a typical hip surgery, but a long-involved process of repeat surgeries and therapies. The question arose, how do we best pray for Arnold? Do we voice the same platitude prayers for healing, or is there a better way to pray for our brother that reflects our knowledge of Christ in our brother? What are Christ's own words for Arnold as he faces these next days?

JAU Zoom Meeting 1-30-22 ”How do you know Jesus lives in you?”

In this episode, our group talks about the difference between knowing information with our minds and knowing something with our hearts. This knowing is similar to a man and woman knowing they are meant for each other. How do you get this knowing? Can others help us in this knowing?

”You will get through this!” Andy & Chrissy Interview 1/23/22

In this episode, Dennis interviews his friends and new JAU (Jesus as Us) community members Andy and Chrissy Koontz. Hear them talk about their journey of recovery from Andy's brain cancer and their own spiritual quest to know Jesus. With their new revelation of Jesus living in them a whole new outreach is unfolding, not only to other cancer survivors, but also friends across the globe searching for authentic knowledge of Jesus. 

Check out their website www.andykoontz.com, and especially the song Andy wrote during his recovery called "You will get through this". 

Andy and Chrissy can also be reached through email akoontz2003@hotmail.com