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Episode Synopsis
Jordan Elder, Paden Behrens, JR Cochran, and Sarah McLean discuss a healthy church's sixth of ten health metrics: City-Reaching. In this first season, pastors and leaders from the Redeemer Network will discuss all ten health metrics.The polis (translated city and town) is missionally strategic and packed with theological meaning in the New Testament. Used 70 times in Acts and Revelation, cities and towns are at the heart of gospel expansion and God’s language for the world to come. Thus, a city-reaching church is holistically engaged, meeting its neighbors' physical, mental, emotional, and, most importantly, spiritual needs.Sarah McLean is the We Love Abilene Director at the Well in Abilene, Texas.J.R. Cochran is the lead pastor at the Well in Abilene, Texas.Paden Behrens is the lead pastor at Redeemer Brady.Jordan Elder is the lead pastor at Redeemer in Round Rock.Show Note Resources:Redeemer Network’s 10 Health Metrics
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