Pete Ward - Liquid Church (N43)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2012
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Pete Ward is senior lecturer in youth ministry and theological education at King's College, London. About 10 years ago now Pete wrote Liquid Church, and it turned out to be rather influential. Pete's theories have stuck around and shaped the views of many people interested in new forms of church. So Nomad thought they'd better find out a bit more.
“There’s been a centripetal movement in church life where church as we know it seems to be the vehicle through which you do all these things like evangelism…and that’s delivered amazing life and energy in places. But at the same time, it’s kind of turned the heat down on the freedom to go and do things that aren’t ‘church.’” - Pete Ward
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church. |
| 0:16.1 | Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I always feel I sound slightly sarcastic when I say that. |
| 0:21.2 | I don't know how that, how do you feel that comes across? |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah, you have a kind of sarcastic. |
| 0:25.1 | Sure and have a go. |
| 0:25.6 | Go on, you do it. |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | Is that even more sarcastic? |
| 0:32.8 | I thought it sounded quite warm and pastoral. |
| 0:34.7 | I do it. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, that's good. sounded quite warm and pastoral. I do it. I don't know you, Dave, but it feels like it's been a long time since the last one. |
| 0:41.8 | I know it's only been a month, but sometimes, you know, it feels like it's just the next day, doesn't it? |
| 0:47.1 | This one feels like a long time. |
| 0:48.4 | Yeah, it feels like a big gap. |
| 0:49.6 | Maybe it's because we've had Christmas in between. |
| 0:51.6 | Possibly, yeah. We've just pulled over and lay by, according to Satnav, 2.1 miles from Pete Ward's house. |
| 0:59.2 | Dave, who's Pete Ward? |
| 1:01.0 | Pete Ward. |
| 1:02.1 | He's no relation to me. |
| 1:04.7 | I bet there's some funny stories, isn't there, surrounding that? |
| 1:07.3 | Oh, did you guess? |
| 1:10.1 | Actually, the name Ward is quite common. |
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