Simon Hall - The Story of 'Revive' (N42)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2012

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tim and Dave were in Leeds recently and so thought they'd catch up with Simon Hall of the Revive community. So tune in to hear the story of Simon's journey into new forms of mission and Christian community (it's a rich tapestry!), and the various manifestations of Revive.

“I found that we don’t talk about what a whole human being is…In technical terms, we don’t have a theological anthropology. So, if we don’t know what it is we’re aiming for, then maybe it’s no surprise the sort of hodgepodge of practices we’ve got don’t get us anywhere.” - Simon Hall

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.0	We're in Leeds and we thought while we're here, we'd pop in and have a little chat with Simon Hall.
0:22.3	Who's Simon Hall, Dave?
0:23.9	Simon Hall. He's a friend of mine that goes back many years actually and he was involved in
0:31.1	planting a church called Revive in Leeds.
0:34.9	So I think we're just pretty much, as you know, with Nomad Extra, it's more of a
0:38.6	narrative. Indeed. So we're just going to ask him a bit about his life and his kind of journey
0:44.9	into new forms of church. That's right. So we'll be back in a minute with Simon.
0:52.7	Okay, Simon, thanks very much for giving us your time at the moment.
1:00.0	It's a pleasure.
1:01.0	Perhaps you'd just like to kind of give us your story, where you came from and where you are now with this whole new forms of church and stuff like that?
1:13.4	I'm not from a church-going family.
1:19.3	And I think that probably has shaped me to a certain extent because I did try a bit of everything
1:24.1	before I became a Christian in my mid-teens.
1:31.1	And eventually I found my way to a very lively and flourishing charismatic church in the mid-80s. I had a youth pastor, I had a big youth ministry,
1:42.1	and I found lots of Christian friends and at the time I was really struggling with
1:50.9	my identity before I became a Christian I was big into heavy metal and I did the whole burning my
1:56.5	denim jacket which had taken me three years to buy all the patches and studs for,
2:02.1	and getting rid of all my records and everything, and trying to like Cliff Richard.
2:09.1	But slowly...
2:10.5	That's a tough calling, isn't it?
2:12.1	Yeah, but without anyone saying anything, I'd got the impression that that was what was required.
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