Sharon Ketcham – Reciprocal Church

OnScript

Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What is the relationship between the individual Christian and the community of faith? How do we navigate the pendulum swings between an overemphasis on the individual at the expense of community and an overemphasis on community at the expense of the individual? In this episode, OnScript host Amy Brown Hughes talks with her colleague Sharon Ketcham about her new book Reciprocal Church: Becoming a Community Where Faith Flourishes Beyond High School, how often we talk about faith as a "product," what theological anthropology must undergird our ecclesiology, and where hope lies in the future of the church. The post Sharon Ketcham – Reciprocal Church first appeared on OnScript.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Onscript podcast, your home for world-class conversations on scripture and theology,
0:08.0	where you get to meet some of the best in the field. Visit us at OnScript. Study. Say hello on Twitter at OnScript Podcast,
0:14.8	and stop by our Facebook page at facebook.com slash OnScript.
0:26.9	Hello, friends. Welcome to OnScript. This is Amy Brown Hughes, a co-host for the podcast with Matt Lynch, Matt Bates, Aaronheim, Drew Johnson, and Chris Tilling. Today I have the pleasure of
0:32.7	speaking with Dr. Sharon Ketchum, my friend and colleague here at Gordon College.
0:39.9	Sharon is professor of theology and Christian Ministries.
0:44.1	We work very closely together here at Gordon in the development of our theology program,
0:45.7	and she's also a dear friend.
0:50.2	I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to introduce her to you, dear on-script listeners.
0:54.3	We'll talk ecclesiology, why teens aren't destroying the future of the church,
0:59.2	fifth grade band concerts, and of course her recent book, Reciprocal Church, becoming a community where faith flourishes beyond high school, published with IVP Praxis in 2018. I found this book
1:05.4	enjoyable and energizing, and I'm delighted to get to talk about it today. Welcome, Sharon.
1:10.2	Hello, Amy. And onScript listeners. It's
1:13.0	wonderful to be with you. So I want to begin with giving our OnScript listeners a chance to get to know you a bit.
1:19.4	Could you start us off today by talking about your journey to becoming a theologian?
1:24.4	Fabulous. There's maybe a couple ways to approach that. I often hear people talk about their schooling
1:29.6	and kind of that common trajectory, but I maybe would like to talk more about that
1:34.4	internal awakening process for me. And maybe some people would say, too, like there was a
1:41.1	theologian that they met or an idea that they encountered that inspired them. For me, this journey started really when I was rather young, and it had to do
1:50.3	with meaning making. I remember when I was in fifth grade, I was in a Presbyterian church,
1:55.0	and my family was, or I had asked, and inquired if I could take the Lord's Supper, and our
1:59.9	pastor came to our house
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