Keep It Simple: A Simple Church Podcast

Today, Gavin has a conversation with Kaleb Phillips from Wilmore, Kentucky. Wilmore and Asbury Seminary have been in the news lately because of a student led revival that occurred during most of the month of February of this year. Kaleb lives and works in Wilmore and hosts a house church there. In this interview, Kaleb […]

Today, Gavin has a conversation with Steve Simms from Nashville, Tennessee. Steve has been practicing simple forms of church for more than 40 years and shares some of his insights and principles of the Christian life he has learned along the way. Steve is the author of “Beyond Church: An Invitation to Experience the Lost […]

For those of you who are married, do you look at your life together as a ministry? Do you think about all the people you will influence during your lives? Today, Tom and Gavin talk about a little known, but very influential couple from the book of Acts named Priscilla and Aquila and the tremendous […]

Gavin continues his “Simple Church Conversations” with an interview with Felicity Dale, one of the pioneers of the recent house church movement in America. Felicity, along with her husband Tony, have been very active in planting simple churches for more than 30 years. Felicity is the author of Simply Church, An Army of Ordinary People: […]

Today, Tom and Gavin discuss hospitality and its impact on people. Hospitality – serving others – is not easy. It can be hard work and frankly, not many people know how to do it well. It seems to be a dying art in our modern culture. But if practiced consistently, hospitality can bring people closer […]

Today, Gavin continues his “Simple Church Conversations” by interviewing a good friend, Bart Scarborough. Bart is currently operating a spiritual retreat center in Georgia called The Ancient Way Farm. Bart and Gavin discuss the current unhealthy trend of frenetic ministry and encourage a more focused but slower, deliberate way of healthy ministry through reflection and […]

Today, Gavin continues his “Simple Church Conversations” by interviewing a good friend, Bart Scarborough. Bart is currently operating a spiritual retreat center in Georgia called The Ancient Way Farm. Bart and Gavin discuss the current unhealthy trend of frenetic ministry and encourage a more focused but slower, deliberate way of healthy ministry through reflection and […]

Episodes Eleven through Fifteen You may have noticed some short interruptions our podcast episodes that we call “Acting Out.” No, we are not misbehaving. Acting Out is the segment of our show when we look to the book of Acts in the Bible and find lessons from the early church. In this brief segment, we […]

Gavin kicks off his “Simple Church Conversations” with Nick Sefton who helps lead a house church ministry in Indianapolis Indiana called Beacon.  Listen as Nick shares how house church began for him after many years of leading traditional church ministries. Nick and Gavin discuss several of the lessons that they have learned through following Christ […]

Does your simple church adhere to a Statement of Faith or Creed? Does it use a Catechism to help disciple new believers? What value do these extra-biblical texts have for the simple church? Tom and Gavin examine these centuries-old documents and discuss the pros and cons of systematic theology for the simple church.   Here […]