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The Church Explained podcast is a conversation that will help to develop your leadership and grow your church. Our goal on this podcast is to share inspirational insights and ideas to resource leaders, churches and teams. Through our conversations with key team players at IKON church and other guests.
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Welcome to Season 3, Episode: 03 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Lucy Peppiatt
A short bio about Lucy
Lucy is the Principal of WTC, a Hub-based theological college in the UK. She’s a systematic theologian who teaches Christian doctrine and spiritual formation courses. She’s authored several books on topics such as discipleship, 1 Corinthians, women in the Bible, and humanity made in the image of God. She and her husband, Nick Crawley, live in Bristol, where they attend Crossnet Church, a church they planted 18 years ago.
In part two, we explore with Lucy the need for leaders to know our identity in God as this forms part of our discipleship.
We hope you enjoy it.
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Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Welcome to Season 3, Episode: 02 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Lucy Peppiatt
A short bio about Lucy
Lucy is the Principal of WTC, a Hub-based theological college in the UK. She’s a systematic theologian who teaches courses in Christian doctrine and spiritual formation. She’s authored several books on topics such as discipleship, 1 Corinthians, women in the Bible, and humanity made in the image of God. She and her husband, Nick Crawley, live in Bristol, where they attend Crossnet Church, a church they planted 18 years ago.
In part one, we explore with Lucy how we can improve discipleship within our churches and how we need to focus on CPD as leaders.
We hope you enjoy it.
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Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
The Church Explained podcast is a conversation to help grow your leadership, develop your team and build your church. Your hosts will be Dave Mckeown and Nathan Benger. We talk about all things leadership with key team players from IKON Church and other guests during each show.
Welcome to Season 3, Episode: 01 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Dan Blythe
A short bio about Dan
Dan Blythe, It was while back-packing in Australia, aged 18, that Dan encountered Jesus and went on to study for two years at C3 Bible College, specialising in Youth Ministry. When he headed back to the UK, aged 21, he started in a role as a Youth Pastor in Canterbury, Kent. There he led an interdenominational youth ministry called ‘Change’. He met his wife, Charlie, at a festival called Soul Survivor and after marrying, they became active members of Hillsong Church in London. Over the next decade, Dan worked as part of the staff team at Hillsong and led the youth and young adults and, later, the Creative Team. Dan is now the Global Youth Director for Alpha, which he describes as his dream job! Dan and Charlie have two boys, Knox, age four and Niko age one.. Dan supports Chelsea FC, Spends his free time at his boxing gym and decides that 2022 is the year he will finally learn to cook.
In this episode, we explore with Dan how we should engage Gen Z.
We hope you enjoy it.
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Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
The Church Explained podcast is a conversation to help grow your leadership, develop your team and build your church. Your hosts will be Dave Mckeown and Nathan Benger. We talk about all things leadership with key team players from IKON Church and other guests during each show.
Join your hosts for the finale of 2022 as we share a brand new resource we developed at IKON Church to help us with discipleship. We reveal the step-by-step guide of how we went from an idea to the launch of our new site called FOLLOW JESUS, which is helping our church become more like Jesus.
We will return in January 2023 for season three with an amazing lineup of new guests and content.
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Friday Nov 25, 2022
Friday Nov 25, 2022
Welcome to Season 2, Episode: 29 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Chad Hampton
A short bio about Chad
Chad has been married to his wife, Jill, for 19 years, and they have four children, Makenna, Ashton, Adalyn and Jude.
Chad grew up a preacher's kid. He attended Bible college in 2002. At the age of 19 stepped into full-time ministry as a youth pastor. He was on staff at Faith Center Church in Rockford, IL, for 12 years before transitioning to the team at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. Chad was the campus pastor at the Providence campus for a little over two years and then moved to be the campus pastor at the Lake Norman location for over four years. Chad recently stepped away from full-time vocational ministry and now works as a sales rep for a company in Utah. His focus during this time is to ensure he takes every moment possible to be with his kids, as they are still young and at home.
In part two of our conversation, Chad shares some clear principles we can use when making key decisions in our ministry and lives.
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Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Welcome to Season 2, Episode: 28 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Chad Hampton
A short bio about Chad
Chad has been married to his wife, Jill, for 19 years, and they have four children, Makenna, Ashton, Adalyn and Jude.
Chad grew up a preacher's kid. He attended Bible college in 2002. At the age of 19 stepped into full-time ministry as a youth pastor. He was on staff at Faith Center Church in Rockford, IL, for 12 years before transitioning to the team at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. Chad was the campus pastor at the Providence campus for a little over two years and then moved to be the campus pastor at the Lake Norman location for over four years. Chad recently stepped away from full-time vocational ministry and now works as a sales rep for a company in Utah. His focus during this time is to ensure he takes every moment possible to be with his kids, as they are still young and at home.
In part one of our conversation, we explore with Chad his courageous decision to step out of full-time ministry at Elevation and step into a new role in the marketplace and how this impacted him.
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Friday Nov 11, 2022
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Welcome to Season 2, Episode: 27 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Paul Benger
In part two of our conversation, Paul provides many brilliant ideas for creating a clear growth strategy for your church or organisation.
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Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Welcome to Season 2, Episode: 26 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Paul Benger
In part one of our conversation, Paul begins to unpack what it means to me to be an integrated church and why every church leader needs to pay attention to this.
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Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Welcome to Season 2, Episode: 25 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Anthony Christopher
A Short bio
Anthony Christopher is the messaging pastor at Reverb Church in Saint Augustine, Florida. He oversees all things worship, production, digital and communications across the church. He also serves on the executive leadership team, helping drive vision and healthy decisions for the wider church.
In part two of our conversation, Anthony shares some key principles used at Reverb Church to successfully onboard new team members.
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Friday Oct 21, 2022
Friday Oct 21, 2022
The Church Explained podcast is a conversation to help grow your leadership, develop your team and build your church. Your hosts will be Dave Mckeown and Nathan Benger. We talk about all things leadership with key team players from IKON Church and other guests during each show.
Welcome to Season 2, Episode: 24 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Anthony Christopher
A Short bio
Anthony Christopher is the messaging pastor at Reverb Church in Saint Augustine, Florida. He oversees all things worship, production, digital and communications across the church. He also serves on the executive leadership team, helping drive vision and healthy decisions for the wider church.
In our conversation with Anthony, he shares some fantastic insights from his second chair role. In addition, he offers some brilliant ways in which we can serve those who lead us better.
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