Steve Chalke - A Cross-Shaped Mission (N15)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2009

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Steve Chalke is one of the UK's most influential and controversial Christians. There's not enough space here to list everything he gets up to, but it's surely enough to say that the Queen awarded him the title of Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his 'services to social inclusion'! He chats with us about the cross and the centrality of mission in the life of the church.

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, Mission and the Future of the Church.
0:16.1	Welcome to Nomad podcast. We're five friends who live in Nottingham, England, who every month have a chat with leading Christian thinkers to help us think through issues relating to mission, community and the future of the church. On this month's show, I'm going to be talking to Steve Chalk about all things social action. We're then going to have a chat about some of the issues he raises, and we'll be reading out some of your emails. So we've got all this
0:37.8	and nothing more on Nomad Podcast. This month's guest on Nomad Podcasts is Steve Chalk. Now Steve is the
0:51.8	founder of Oasis Trust which delivers housing, education,
0:55.4	training, youth work and healthcare on five continents and 11 countries around the world.
1:00.1	He's also the founder of Faithworks, which resources and supports churches across the
1:04.6	denominations to help them engage in social action. And he's founded and chairs Stop the Traffic,
1:09.8	a global coalition of over 2,000 charities
1:12.1	in 60 countries that is working to stop the buying and selling of people. And as a result of that,
1:17.2	he's become the UN Special Advisor on Human Trafficking. And also he's founded Oasis Church,
1:22.9	a developing network of community churches around the UK. And on top of all that, he's the author of many books
1:28.8	and articles and is a regular TV and radio presenter. So, Steve Chalk, welcome to Nomad Podcast.
1:35.0	Thank you very much. You like to keep busy, don't you? That was a terrible list of things.
1:40.8	It made me feel quite tired. How do you fit all that in?
1:45.4	Well, the truth is we got, I mean, the truth is that, I mean, when you sum it all up like
1:49.9	that, it sounds a lot smarter than it really is.
1:52.7	You know, I've been doing all this a long time.
1:55.1	I became a Christian when I was 14.
1:57.4	I first started speaking when I was about 16.
2:06.5	I first led a church when I was, well, help leader church when I was 18, 19.
2:09.6	And slowly everything has grown over the years.
2:18.2	So what happens, of course, is as you go along, you develop ways of being a bit smarter at doing things than you had to start with. And also fantastic, and most importantly, of course, fantastic team of people. So OASIS is a huge
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