Francis Chan, Pastor - Author - THROWBACK THURSDAY
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Francis Chan is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Community Church and author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Erasing Hell. He travels throughout the world challenging Christians to a higher commitment to Christ. He’s also the founder of Eternity Bible College and has been pastoring churches and discipling people for over 25 years. He currently lives with his family in the Bay Area where he oversees We Are Church, a network of house churches.
On this Throwback Thursday edition of the podcast, Francis shares his thoughts on discipleship and the state of the local church.
The original interview featured Francis and Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright at a conference in San Antonio, TX discussing their unique friendship, what Adam is learning from Francis’ teaching, why it’s important to use your platform to share the Gospel, and what is breaking Francis’ heart in the church. You can listen to the entire interview HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to the Throwback Thursday edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. Here's your host, Jason Romano. Hi, everyone. |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome to the Throwback Thursday edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | My name's Jason Romano. |
| 0:31.9 | Today, we're going to look back at episode number 63 of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | An interview that aired in December of 2017 with Adam Wainwright, the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher, and Pastor Francis Chan of Cornerstone Community Church. He's the author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Erasing Hell. |
| 0:48.2 | Francis Chan, well known in the Christian circles for his teaching and his amazing gift to communicate the gospel to so many. |
| 0:56.6 | And what I thought would be fun to look back on on this edition of the Throwback Thursday edition |
| 1:00.8 | is Francis Chan's thoughts on a couple things. First of all, discipleship, his answers were just so good. |
| 1:07.2 | I could have interviewed him for an hour about different facets of faith and Christianity. |
| 1:13.6 | And Francis just kind of boils it down. He keeps it pretty simple. It keeps it centered around Jesus and the |
| 1:20.0 | gospel. So I ask him about discipleship and I ask him about what's breaking his heart right now. |
| 1:25.6 | And his answer to that question and what's happening in the church |
| 1:30.0 | the church of Christ is powerful so let's listen to a snippet from episode 63 of the podcast |
| 1:37.6 | back in December 2017 with pastor Francis Chan on the Sports Spectrum podcast. Take a listen. |
| 1:49.3 | Francis, I want to talk about discipleship and the idea of people, our audience, sports fans, but also mostly Christians, |
| 1:58.3 | but the difference between just being a follower of Christ or |
| 2:02.1 | professing a faith in Christ, but then being a disciple of Christ and being disciple. |
| 2:06.7 | What does discipleship look like from your perspective? |
| 2:09.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:09.5 | And to me, I don't know. |
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