Mike Doyle – Calvary Chapel https://calvarychapel.com Encourage, Equip, Edify Wed, 03 Aug 2022 17:00:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://calvarychapel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CalvaryChapel-com-White-01-32x32.png Mike Doyle – Calvary Chapel https://calvarychapel.com 32 32 Mission Drift, Political Extremes, and Wisdom in the Negative World – Mike Doyle https://calvarychapel.com/posts/mission-drift-political-extremes-and-wisdom-in-the-negative-world-mike-doyle/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:47:12 +0000 https://calvarychapel.com/?p=47204 ]]>

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In a cultural moment that is growing hostile towards the Church, it’s becoming easier than ever for Christians to slip into mission drift.

“Without careful attention, faith-based organizations will inevitably drift from their founding mission. It’s that simple. It will happen.” – Peter Greer

Out of defensiveness and self preservation, it can become easy for us to turn our mission field into a battle field, where the focus and goal shifts from reaching the lost to defeating them in political and social battles.

This isn’t to say Christians should not have an influence on the culture, far from it. It is an admonishment to walk cautiously in these times and keep the main thing the main thing. It is encouragement to avoid the extremes of both the far-left and far-right, and ensure the main thing we are radical about is the preaching Gospel and making disciples.

In this final episode of the negative World Series, Aaron Salvato, Brian Higgins, and Mike Doyle discuss how we can have wisdom while living in the negative world.

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Aaron Salvato writes:
“Many Christians now sense the world has shifted. While culture was once positive towards Christianity, we now see a world that has shifted from openness to indifference and now hostility.

A negative world.

Which begs the question… how do we respond to this idea of the negative world? How do we adapt? How do we avoid negative responses that hold us back from our mission and focus on the kind of response that makes a difference in this broken world?

Today on the GoodLion Podcast, I once again sit down with Mike Doyle, founder and lead pastor of Movement Church in NYC, to chat about this complex issue.

We discuss the need for deep faith. A renewed sense of Christian vision, identity, and formation, and how reclaiming the monastic principles of early Christians, even in small ways, can make a big difference.

Later in the episode, I’ll be joined by Brian Higgins to look at the debate surrounding Tim Keller’s strategy of winsomeness and how properly understanding what we mean when we say winsome makes a massive difference in how to understand this conflict.

Then Mike will join me again to close out the episode as we discuss the problems of both-sidesism and the need for a resurgence of theological orthodoxy.

I really enjoyed these convos, and as This episode is the 2nd of a 3-part series on the Negative World, there will be more good convos to come.
We hope it helps you think and consider how to walk wisely as a Jesus follower and to consider the ways the world is changing, but also how our mission as Christians never changes.

You’re listening to the GoodLion Podcast!”

]]> Living In The Negative World https://calvarychapel.com/posts/living-in-the-negative-world-mike-doyle/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:30:53 +0000 https://calvarychapel.com/2022/06/08/living-in-the-negative-world-mike-doyle/ Throughout our lives many of us have heard older generations harken back to a time when Christians were accepted, praised, and embraced by the culture....]]>

Throughout our lives many of us have heard older generations harken back to a time when Christians were accepted, praised, and embraced by the culture.

Everyone went to Church on sundays. People seemed to hold a Christian worldview and morality, and it was rare to find someone who didn’t believe in Heaven or Hell. A world that was positive towards Christians.

Some people my age remember a more neutral world, where Christianity was seen as one of many belief systems free thinkers could choose from.

But today, many are talking about the negative world, a shift where the views of the culture have become much more hostile against Christians.

Do these views have validity, or are they an overblown exaggeration? What does this mean for the Church? And how can we react to it in a way that’s true with who we are as Christ followers?

Today on the GoodLion Podcast, I sit down with Mike Doyle, founder and lead pastor of Movement Church in NYC, to chat about this complex issue. Later in the episode I’ll be joined by Brian Higgins to dive further into how we can respond to this concept.

I really enjoyed these convos, and as This episode is the first of a 3 part series on the Negative World, there will be more good convos to come.

We hope it helps you think and consider how to walk wisely as a Jesus follower, and to consider the ways the world is changing, but also how our mission as Christians never changes.

You’re listening to the GoodLion Podcast!

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