S2 Ep1006: #1006 - Micro Churches and the Tampa Underground: Jeremy Stephens
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Stephens is one of the founding leaders of Tampa Underground, a gospel-centered ecclesiological network that’s home to over 100 microchurches (small missional communities) in the Tampa Bay area and 15 city-wide sister movements across the world. Currently, Jeremy is the director of the Underground's International Department. He previously has been a missionary with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and the Associate Director for the Underground in Tampa. Jeremy resides in the inner-city of Tampa with 4 kids and one wife.
In this conversation, Jeremy and I talk about all things church-related. What’s his model? How does it work? What’s his advice for the border Christian church in America? And many more things.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rah. My guest today is Jeremy |
| 0:04.5 | Stevens. Jeremy is one of the founders of the Tampa Underground, a really interesting |
| 0:12.0 | community of micro churches. And we talk a lot about what the Tampa Underground is. So I don't |
| 0:17.2 | need to say anymore here. Jeremy is a super sharp wise guy who is also very humble. And I really |
| 0:24.0 | appreciated his thoughts on the church, how to rethink kind of what we mean as we say we do |
| 0:30.9 | church or go to church or are there church or whatever, like he spent a lot of time, you know, |
| 0:34.8 | just rethinking these, rethinking these categories through a biblical lens. And he'll be the first |
| 0:40.1 | one to say their model is not the only model. But I found it incredibly interesting, especially for |
| 0:44.9 | those of us who, you know, might be a little disenchanted with some more traditional forms with |
| 0:50.0 | how we go about doing church. You will really enjoy this conversation. So please welcome to the |
| 0:53.8 | show for the first time. Do you want to know all the Jeremy Stevens? |
| 1:06.4 | All right, hey friends. I'm here with a brand new friend, Jeremy Stevens, who we met through |
| 1:12.1 | a friend of a friend just online. And I, Jeremy, first of all, thank you for coming on Theology |
| 1:18.5 | and the Raw. I'm actually, actually, that's also, I'm actually looking forward to it. But like, |
| 1:23.3 | I've been a fan from a distance from what you guys are doing out there at Tampa Underground. I've |
| 1:27.7 | been wanting to have one of you guys on the podcast for a while. So thank you so much for being on the show. |
| 1:32.6 | Oh man, appreciate you. They invite. I also, do you know, you know the Hersh's, right? |
| 1:40.0 | That they, yeah, I think they, like over the last five years, I feel like every time I turn around, |
| 1:45.7 | somebody's like, oh, you guys, you got to talk to the Tampa Underground people. Like they're just |
| 1:48.9 | doing really neat work out there. So let's start with who you are as a person quickly. And then |
| 1:54.6 | we'll love to have you unpack what Tampa Underground is. And then I'm sure that I'll open up loads of |
| 1:59.7 | questions. Yeah, yeah. So, so I've been just following Jesus since really 19 years old grew up in the |
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