Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.

Hi, welcome to Nomad podcast. We're a group of five friends who live in Nottingham in the UK. Each month we discuss issues surrounding mission, community and the future of the church. And to help us in our exploration, we chat to various thinkers, authors and speakers. This week we're chatting to Steve Timis, who heads up a group of churches in the UK called Crowded House.

We'll be hearing about what they get up to and their underlying theology.

As a group, we'll be chatting about that.

We'll be hearing some of your thoughts in the email section.

It's all coming up over the next indefined period,

unless you've checked how long this podcast lasts prior to listening to it.

Steve, thanks for joining us. For someone who's never heard of Crowded House, could you

give us a little bit of an insight into what it's all about? Yeah, it's a pleasure to join, Nick. Thanks.

Crowded House, Crowded House began life as trying to do church, back in the midnight of this,

was trying to do church in a way that would reach people who rejected traditional church.

And so it had a strong, missional focus from the outset.

And the means to that was community.

That is we wanted to litter the city with communities of light.

That is people who were committed to the Lord, committed to one another,

committed to living in real relationship with one another,

modelling the nature of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God with flesh on it, if you like,

that is church.

So that's what we started off as, and in that time, you know, time we've grown and a number of those communities

have been planted around the city of Sheffield and beyond.

Brilliant. I guess a lot of people who are involved in church might argue that they, in their

expression of church, they seek to have real relationships with one another,

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