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🗓️ 9 October 2012
⏱️ 38 minutes
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John Hayes is founder and director of the mission order InnerChange. InnerChange supports missional communities who are living incarnationally in the poorest areas of cities around the world. So brace yourself for a challenging and inspiring interview!
“Be content to be an ordinary bush burning with extraordinary fire. Christians get in danger when they try to be an extraordinary bush and then all [they] can give is ordinary fire.” - John Hayes
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0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church. |
0:16.0 | Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. |
0:19.0 | Hey Dave, why are we off down to London yet again? |
0:23.6 | Well, we're going to do another interview, Tim. |
0:26.6 | But do you want to say who it is? |
0:29.6 | John Hayes, Inner Change, we're going to the East End of London. |
0:34.6 | One of the poorest parts of London, apparently. |
0:38.1 | Wow. |
0:39.0 | Yeah. |
0:42.0 | I like Interchange, because they're kind of low-key. |
0:45.9 | Well, to be honest, I've never heard of inner-change. |
0:48.2 | That's obviously because they're so low-key. |
0:51.3 | Yeah, I read the book Submerge, very good book a while back. |
0:56.8 | They do amazing stuff, like super-radical stuff, but they're not very well known. |
0:58.6 | There's no kind of like fanfare. |
0:59.8 | Do you know what I mean? |
1:00.5 | They just get on with it. |
1:01.5 | I like that vibe. |
1:02.5 | Yeah, definitely. |
1:03.1 | Yeah. |
1:08.9 | Yeah, there's a lot of hype, isn't it, often about stuff, but in actual fact, there's not very much going on but hopefully we'll find out |
1:11.8 | there's lots going on without all the fanfare as you say yeah let's do it let's hit |
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