The Deep Dive Spirituality Conversations Podcast

Episode 2: Spirit Driven Mission with Dr. Michael Beck

In today's episode, Dr. Russell interviews the missional thinker and practitioner Dr. Michael Beck.

Through his work as a missional catalyst, Beck is on the leading edge of helping the church to relearn what it takes to embrace the mission of God in their local contexts. He discusses contextual intelligences as a strategy for leading new or aging churches to embrace mission. We also dig deeply into the formational practices for embodying a missional holiness.

3 Books that Beck views as Essential:

(1) Gerald Arbuckle Refounding the church: Dissent for Leadership https://amzn.to/2VdFD5e

(2) Manuel Castells The Rise of Network Society https://amzn.to/2JOZCSr

(3) Graham Cray The Mission-shaped Church https://amzn.to/2UWAIXg

Dr. Michael Beck is South Atlantic Coordinator Fresh Expressions US and North Central District Cultivator of Fresh Expressions for the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. Michael serves as senior pastor of Wildwood UMC where he directs addiction recovery programs, a jail ministry, a food pantry, and a network of fresh expressions that meet in places like tattoo parlors and burrito joints. He currently lives in Wildwood with his wife, Jill, and their blended family of 8 children.

Episode 1: Spiritual Direction and the Contemplative Life with Gene Yotka

In the inaugural episode Brian interviews Rev. Gene Yotka founder and director of the Awakening Institute. This episode covers contemplative spirituality and practices by discussing their profound relevance to our reality today.

Gene summarizes his understanding of the 5 S's of Contemplative Living: Simplicity, Silence, Stillness, Solitude and Spaciousness.