14,000 Feet Podcast Episode 4

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Welcome to 14,000 feet with Nathan Foster, a podcast about the essentials of Christian Spiritual Formation. Whether you’ve been a Christian all your life or are at the beginning of a spiritual journey, this podcast will challenge you to live out the Christian faith.

This episode features special guest Kai Nilsen, Renovaré board member and pastor of Peace Lutheran church in Gahanna, Ohio. Nathan and Kai discuss Renovaré’s Essential conference and genuine Spiritual Formation in community. Kai relates how he first became involved with Renovaré, and how meeting people like Dallas Willard and Richard Foster made their writings come more alive to him. Dallas Willard impacted Kai’s life with his great example of servant leadership.

Kai also talks about how churches in his area came together, working across denominational lines, to accomplish MISSION in the Kingdom. He addresses: what you need to leave behind to start working together; how working together can meet needs in the community; and the one question you need to ask to start making an impact on today’s culture.

Prayer for the Podcast:

Father, you created us for Kingdom community. So often we let our agendas, our pride, and our ego get in the way. Because of this your church is splintered, and will often stay behind its own walls instead of impacting our culture and changing lives. Help us, Father, to work together. Help us to reach our communities. Help us to effect real change where we live and work. You prayed this very prayer for us while on this earth.

²⁰ “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹ that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—²³ I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” John 17 (NIV) Help us to live in this truth today. Thank you, Father.