Fresh Water from the Well: The New Life Movement

Tyrannus Hall Podcast

How can today's missional churches learn from the past? Should current mission-minded Reformed Churches in Canada (and the USA) reflect on lessons learned and taught in American Prestbyterian churches 40 and 50 years ago? Can we apply those lessons today in our gospel out-reach to our pluralistic post-Christian culture?
This episode features Ron Lutz who worked with C. John (Jack) Miller. Jack Miller started a missional movement and network among Presbyterian churches in the USA in the 1970’s and 80's. In 1986 he published Out-Growing the Ingrown Church, a landmark book in its day. You can read a book review by Tim Challies on his blog. Challies comments that since Miller's book was published, many more books have developed and expanded solid Reformed thought on church-planting and evangelism. But then, that is Miller's legacy! He was at the forefront of understanding the need for the church to contextualize the gospel for today's culture.
As a guest host, this episode also features Pastor Phil Grotenhuis, pastor of the URCNA congregation in Phoenix Arizona. Pastor Phil is interested in promoting a missional ecclesiology. He, with his church, facilitates the annual Phoenix Mission Cohort, a gathering for pastors to grow in their understanding of a missional theology and strategy. Pastors Phil Grotenhuis and Bill de Jong interview Pastor Ron Lutz, a (somewhat) retired Presbyterian pastor, on his reflections on the life and ministry of Dr. C. John Miller, and on Miller's impact on his own understanding of Christ's Great Commission and the mission of the contemporary church.
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