Episode 221: Learning How to Fail With J.R. Briggs
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Is the church in America obsessed with success? Do we sacrifice genuine growth to avoid failure? Pastor/author J.R. Briggs joins Phil and Skye to discuss the idolatry of success and his own journey in learning how to "fail well."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Phil. Welcome back to the show. This is Phil, |
| 0:10.4 | Visha podcast. I'm here with Skye Jitani. Hi Phil. How are you? I'm alright. Good. |
| 0:16.0 | We have a guest who'll introduce him shortly. Christian is not here. She was |
| 0:18.9 | gonna be here, but then she couldn't be here because she had to be out of town. |
| 0:21.3 | Right. Where did she go? A college. Is it a child? A college. Yeah. It involved a child |
| 0:27.6 | and offspring in a college. Okay. Which you haven't experienced that yet. You're getting closer. |
| 0:32.4 | You've hit high school. I'm not looking forward to it. Alright, theme song. Hey it's a podcast. |
| 0:37.6 | What do you know? Hey it's a podcast. And we got video. Hey it's a podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | So, Linda Near, the Phil Visha podcast starts right here. Oh, we'll talk to Skye. Hi Phil. |
| 0:47.9 | But not Christian too, because she's off at college with a kid or two. But we do have a guest. |
| 0:55.3 | Hey it's a podcast. So, Linda Near, the Phil Visha podcast starts right here. |
| 0:59.2 | The Phil Visha podcast starts right here. Our guest today is J.R. Briggs. J.R. Briggs. |
| 1:12.0 | Can we ask what it stands for? I'm not sure that's appropriate for a podcast. |
| 1:17.6 | Okay. I do like to joke with the kids that my parents love Candy and they name to me Jolly Rancher. |
| 1:22.1 | Oh, that's good. Jolly Rancher. I like that. Yeah. That works for me. J.R. Briggs is the pastor, |
| 1:29.8 | slash cultural cultivator. Is that true? Is that your title? It sounds new H, but that is correct. |
| 1:36.6 | Pastor slash cultural cultivator at the Renew community in Landdover. |
| 1:43.5 | Landdale, PA. Landdale, Pennsylvania. He's the founder of Kyros Partnerships. He's the author of |
| 1:51.2 | the book Fail, Finding Hope and Grace in the midst of ministry. And he is also the founder of the |
| 1:57.6 | Epic Fail pastors conference. Woohoo. That's a whole lot of failing going on. Yeah, he's an expert |
| 2:04.2 | in failure. Thanks for joining us, sir. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. How do you know, |
| 2:10.2 | Sky? How does Sky know you? How do we know each other? I think we met at Taylor University. We both |
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