Frank Viola - What is Organic Church? (N09)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2009
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Frank Viola is one of the leading figures in the Organic Church movement. Frank is an advocate for a return to New Testament models of church, which he believes means keeping it small, informal, highly participatory and Spirit led.
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and welcome back to Nomad podcast. We're a group of friends from Nottingham, England, |
| 0:20.4 | who are thinking about what community and mission might mean today. We're a group of friends from Nottingham, England, who are thinking |
| 0:21.0 | about what community and mission might mean today. We're doing this by chatting with various |
| 0:25.3 | Christian thinkers and visiting other Christian communities and seeing how they're incarnating |
| 0:29.4 | God's love in their neighbourhood. This month, I'll be getting things started with a chat with |
| 0:33.9 | Frank Viola, a leader in the organic church movement. Then there'll be some chat from us, and we'll be having a look at your emails. |
| 0:47.7 | This month's guest on Nomad Podcast is the international speaker and author, |
| 0:52.7 | whose books are found hugely challenging and exciting |
| 0:55.2 | Frank Viola. Frank speaking and writing covers a range of topics, but he's become particularly |
| 1:00.9 | associated with his writing on radical church reform in books such as pagan Christianity, |
| 1:06.2 | reimagining church, and the forthcoming finding organic church. And consequently, he's become known as a leading |
| 1:12.5 | authority and what has become known as organic or simple church. So Frank, welcome to Nomad Podcast. |
| 1:19.2 | Thank you. It's my pleasure. Now, you start your book reimagining church by saying that you've |
| 1:25.1 | left the institutional church. And so I'm wondering whether you could |
| 1:28.8 | begin this interview by firstly defining institutional church and secondly, telling us a little bit |
| 1:34.5 | about what led you to take such a bold and controversial step in publicly leaving it. |
| 1:38.8 | The institutional church is what many have called the traditional church or the conventional church or the organized |
| 1:47.6 | church. It's typically a church that organizes itself around a clergy and a laity, around a pastor |
| 1:57.9 | or reverend, and then the people who come to a building |
| 2:03.8 | typically |
| 2:05.1 | uh... listen to uh... sermon |
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