Shifting Culture Trailer

We have conversations about the culture we create and the impact we can make. With different guests each podcast episode, we have in-depth interviews into what it looks like to live in the Kingdom of God and embody Jesus in the world. We long for a more compassionate and love-oriented world to live in.

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Episode Transcript

Joshua Johnson (00:00):
What if faith wasn't just about what we

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believe, but how we live, loveand disrupt cycles of chaos,
fear and destruction? What ifthe way of Jesus could actually
interrupt what feels unbreakableand open up a new story for us
all

Manny Arango (00:14):
as Christ followers, we now have the power
to break the cycle of chaos. Idon't have to live in my
grandparents chaos or the chaosof my life five years ago, I can
make the decision as a followerof Jesus to break any kind of
generational cycle and to followChrist into freedom.

Joshua Johnson (00:35):
On shifting culture, we ask the hard
questions, how do you actuallychange yourself, your family,
your community, even yourchurch. How do we move from self
centered living to a life ofradical service and real
transformation?

Adam Young (00:50):
The goal is freedom, because when you are free from
the places you are stuck andbound, then you are able to
participate in the corner of thekingdom of God that has your
name on it because you are freeto be fully you. This

Joshua Johnson (01:08):
show is about real change, personal, cultural,
systemic. We don't shy away frompain or the patterns that keep
us stuck. We dig into stories,trauma, leadership, marriage,
power, greed, beauty and thehidden ways our past shapes our
present. We're

Molly Worthen (01:25):
storytelling and story seeking creatures, and
we're always trying to plug ourchaos into a narrative that
makes sense, and that's thethrough line, all the way from
Puritans of Massachusetts Bay toour modern social media, Tiktok
culture, weakness

Andrew Arndt (01:40):
is where the strength of God is completed. So
that might actually be the wayin which we see the power of God
begin to rush again into ourculture when we stop trying to
coerce the culture into beingthe way that we want it to be.
Instead, we show up again asheralds, ambassadors of the good
news of the glory of God.

Joshua Johnson (01:57):
We long to see the body of Christ look like
Jesus. That means asking thetough questions about justice,
gender leadership and ourdeepest wounds.

Beth Allison Barr (02:07):
The first thing that we have to do is
recognize how we have beencomplicit in obstructing God's
use of women in vocationalministry, and then we have to
move to work together to makesure that all women, no matter
what they are called to, aresupported within the church. I

Malcolm Foley (02:28):
want people to encourage their pastors to
preach about greed more, becauseit's all over the Bible. It's
idolatry. It's the mostinsidious sin that we face.
Because I don't want to be aMammon worshiper. I want to be a
worshiper of the Triune God. Ifyou dig deep enough there you're
gonna deal with, not only issuesof race and racism, you're gonna
deal with a whole lot of otherissues too. Beauty

Aimee Byrd (02:47):
is actually an invitation to walk in goodness,
to walk in truth, to see beautyin that way. I definitely see
God in that as a beckoner.

Ian Morgan Cron (02:57):
If I could reach the end of my life and say
that I learned how to love and,even more importantly, how to be
loved, then I will have lived agood life. We

Joshua Johnson (03:06):
talk about marriage not as a power
structure, but as a partnershipwhere both people can thrive and
look more like Jesus, but

Sheila Gregoire (03:14):
when you go into marriage believing that
he's the tiebreaker, then whenyou don't agree on something,
you think, Oh, I guess this is atime I'm supposed to submit. Or
he thinks, oh, this is the timeI'm supposed to make the
decision. And you takeshortcuts, and that's what we
see over and over again. In thedata, is that people who believe
that he has the tie breakingvote have much lower scores on

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emotional maturity.

Matthew Bates (03:35):
We are saved not just from hell or not just from
our own selves, but we're savedfor full restoration of our
image bearing, so that the glorythat is currently lacking in our
lives and lacking in creationcan reach a maximum again, so
that we're restored to fullhealth.

Joshua Johnson (03:53):
If you're hungry for a faith that confronts
what's broken, celebrates beautyand believes in real change,
this is your invitation. Let'sbreak cycles. Let's shift what's
possible together. This isshifting culture, the way of
Jesus, can and will shifteverything you.