Pastoring People Who Are Living on Different Ideological Planets: Austin Fischer

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Austin Fischer is the Lead Pastor at Vista Community Church near Austin, TX and is the author of several books, including the recently released Us for Them: Seeking Higher Ground in the Cultural Holy Wars, which forms the basis for our discussion in this episode. We focus primarily on how to lead people in our ideologically polarized society, especially when it comes to political and social issues. Get a free one-year supply of vitamin D plus 5 travel packs! DRINKAG1.com/TITR Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology and around my guest today is
0:04.4	pastor and author Austin Fisher whose recent book just came out it's titled us for them seeking higher ground in the cultural holy wars and that's what we talk about in this
0:16.2	podcast how to navigate these strong and sometimes very aggressive ideological tensions that exist in the church that often have to do with political or social issues.
0:29.0	Austin has had to navigate that in his own church and I think he's done so from what I could tell very well and so we talk about
0:38.4	How to navigate a political discipleship cultural discipleship in our highly charged
0:44.2	world. So really enjoyed this conversation. I think you will too. So please
0:47.6	welcome back to the show for the second time, the one and only Austin Fisher. All right, I'm here with Austin Fisher. It's been a few years since I had Austin on the show so
1:05.9	thanks so much for coming back on The Algin Ra. Super excited about your latest book.
1:09.7	Oh man, one of my greatest claims to fame is I'll have staffers and people sometimes you will say,
1:14.8	well you want Preston Sprinkles podcast that one time, so it's been a few years,
1:19.7	but a huge fan. A lot of people at my church are huge fans and so really grateful to get to hop on and yeah
1:26.3	chat with you a little bit about it.
1:27.7	How big is your church? I'm just curious. Not that it matters. I just like to get a picture of like
1:31.6	when you are preached on Sunday what am I
1:34.2	envisioning here? Let's see this is a dangerous question to answer depending upon
1:37.8	who's listening but we're so we're usually around 3,000 people on Sundays and so I know to some people that's
1:45.6	depending on where you are that's you know a mega church some people whatever if you're in
1:50.2	Dallas it's like oh that's a cute cute little church that you have
1:53.2	there that's like a Texas house church right there yeah that's a
1:57.2	guy what it's a Texas house church but no it's it's around 3,000 people we
2:02.1	started in portable buildings 17 years ago and you know man I didn't sign up to be on staff at a big church. I just came to be teaching in college
2:12.2	pastor at a church of a couple hundred people meeting
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