What is the Role of the Church in This Political Climate - BreakPoint Q&A
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Shane Morris invites Colson Center Director of Equipping and Mobilization, Michael Craven to answer a host of questions about the church.
A number of listeners have written in to ask how the church can engage this cultural moment. One listener asks what things we can celebrate inside the church, rather than simply critiquing what is happening in the church.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. |
| 0:10.5 | I am joined today by special guest Michael Craven, Vice President of Equipping and Mobilization at the Colson Center. |
| 0:17.7 | And today we're answering your questions, as always on this show. |
| 0:24.5 | These questions were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and, of course, |
| 0:28.7 | the Colson Fellows Program. If you'd like to send us a question of your own, please email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. Well, Michael, welcome. It's good to have you. |
| 0:35.7 | I understand you're in the middle of the Colson |
| 0:38.0 | Fellows Program season, and you're looking ahead to next year. And I hear that you've started some |
| 0:43.3 | new programs, one that I'm especially excited about. And I know everyone here at the Colson Center is excited |
| 0:48.2 | about is the church affiliate program. Can you take just a few minutes to explain and introduce |
| 0:53.6 | that program to us? Yeah. So good to be with you, Shane. As you take just a few minutes to explain and introduce that program to us? |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, so it could be with you, Shane. As you know, for the last 17 years, the Colson Fellows Program |
| 1:00.5 | has largely been available only to individuals who sought to apply and roll and go through |
| 1:07.1 | the program now through one of our regional cohorts or online cohorts. |
| 1:12.0 | But this year we have done something different, and that is re-engineer the program in such a way that we can deliver it in and through the local church, |
| 1:22.1 | led by local church leaders who have completed the program and have been trained to lead these what we call |
| 1:29.6 | embedded cohorts. And as you know, we here at the Colson Center, we always say that the church |
| 1:36.0 | is God's plan A and there is no plan B. So we felt like this was a really good opportunity to come |
| 1:42.1 | alongside the church and take this program |
| 1:45.1 | that has been so transformational in the lives of so many people over the course of the last 17 years |
| 1:50.1 | and provide it to the church in such a way that they can administer it, they can deliver it, |
| 1:56.5 | and have an impact on their congregations. I love that especially because when we, |
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