S2 Ep1022: #1022 - Rethinking Church through Micro-Churches as Missional Communities: Lucas Pulley
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Lucas Pulley is an executive director of the Tampa Underground Network, a network of around 100 micro-churches in the Tampa Bay area. Lucas has a master’s degree from Fuller Theological seminary. In this episode, we discuss all the ins and outs of the Tampa Underground–the pros, the cons, the challenges, and wins.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the rom. I guess today is Lucas pulley |
| 0:04.8 | Lucas is the one of the executive directors of the Tampa underground network, which is a collective of |
| 0:12.5 | about a hundred micro churches or missional communities and we explain a lot more but any of that |
| 0:18.4 | mean it all that means and Lucas also works alongside Jeremy Stevens who I had on a couple |
| 0:24.2 | months ago on the podcast and so we get into all things church related talk about the kind of |
| 0:29.4 | rather unique and innovative ecclesiology that they are operating out of there at Tampa Underground |
| 0:34.2 | and just really loved the candid and honest conversation that I had with Lucas. He's a really good |
| 0:39.5 | dude and love what those guys are doing down there so please welcome to the show for the first time |
| 0:43.0 | do you want to know me? Lucas pulley Lucas thanks so much for being on the odds in the rom. I'm really |
| 0:56.8 | excited about the conversation. Of course happy to be on. What is your relationship? Were you one of |
| 1:01.2 | the founding members or did you come on later or what's your association with? Yeah I found a |
| 1:07.9 | I found a a back door into the underground you know later on so I started following Jesus a month |
| 1:15.3 | before I went to college. I was born and raised up in central Illinois outside of champagne or |
| 1:20.4 | banna where the University of Illinois is I was a farm I was a farm kid and grew up in a rural |
| 1:25.6 | community and went to Southern Illinois University and right before I went to college I had like |
| 1:33.6 | I my train wreck my life went into a train wreck you know carpet pulled out from under everything and |
| 1:40.4 | and so and in that place started following Jesus and then landed in college and was trying to |
| 1:46.4 | figure out what it meant to follow Jesus and trying to figure out how to be an independent adult |
| 1:51.0 | individual in the college world at the same time. And in the midst of all that carnage got connected |
| 1:57.2 | to a campus ministry and from the earliest you know moments of my faith was discipled by an older |
| 2:03.5 | guy you know in his 40s that was doing campus ministry his whole career and so was really invested |
| 2:10.2 | in and started really early in my faith started like Bible studies in dorms started doing sort of |
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