Rethink & Return with Jason Shepperd

ABOUT PODCAST //

Rethink & Return Podcast brings thought leadership and teaching to pastors, church leaders and the greater Church by rethinking the modern church and returning to the ways of the New Testament church we see in Scripture.

With undeniable relevance today, this podcast covers topics like House Church, the stewardship of church space, culture, leadership, and more – as well as supplemental resources and in-depth exposition of Church Project’s weekly sermons.

ABOUT HOST //
This podcast’s weekly content is created and shared by Jason Shepperd, Founder and Lead Pastor of Church Project and Church Project Network. With decades of experience in planting and leading churches, Jason has started and scaled a movement of thousands of people, gathered in many House Churches locally, and also in different cities, states, and countries defined by a common eDNA (Ecclesiological DNA): decentralized from primary place and priest, that distributes pastoral leadership to empowered lay pastors, who fully pastor diverse, discipleship geographically-based House Church communities which carry out all of the functions of the church. Church Project has focused over $16.5 million in their first 15 years toward gospel-centered ministries and church planting. Jason also leads Church Project Network, a collective of churches aligned around a commitment to be a “Church of House Churches,” and Good City, a city centrality for local ministry collaboration and support.

Website: jasonshepperd.com

Audio Devotionals: startwith7.com

Have Conversations Toward Salvation: goodgodgospel.com

Church Project Network: churchprojectnetwork.com

Good City: goodcity.org

“A Church of House Churches: An Articulated and Applied Ecclesiology”: https://a.co/d/0vgpSjV

Contributors

Host

Jason Shepperd

This podcast’s weekly content is created and shared by Jason Shepperd, Founder and Lead Pastor of Church Project and Church Project Network. With decades of experience in planting and leading churches, Jason has started and scaled a movement of thousands of people, gathered in many House Churches locally, and also in different cities, states, and countries defined by a common eDNA (Ecclesiological DNA): decentralized from primary place and priest, that distributes pastoral leadership to empowered lay pastors, who fully pastor diverse, discipleship geographically-based House Church communities which carry out all of the functions of the church. Church Project has focused over $16.5 million in their first 15 years toward gospel-centered ministries and church planting. Jason also leads Church Project Network, a collective of churches aligned around a commitment to be a “Church of House Churches,” and Good City, a city centrality for local ministry collaboration and support.

https://jasonshepperd.com/

Guests

Guest

Bill Hull

Bill Hull is a writer and discipleship evangelist as well as the founder of T-Net International, a ministry devoted to transforming churches into disciple-making churches. He has spent more than twenty years as a pastor and is the author of several books, including Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker and Choose the Life. He and his wife, Jane, live in California.

https://billhull.com/

Guest

Billy Schiel

Billy Schiel is the pastor of Church Project Tomball.

Guest appearance on:

Leadership Conversations // Sanctification Through Leadership

Guest

Bobby Harrington

Bobby Harrington is the co-founder of discipleship.org and the founding and lead pastor of Harpeth Christian Church (19 years). He is the chairman of the board for the Relational Discipleship Network and the co-author of DiscipleShift, Dedicated: Training Your Children to Trust and Follow Jesus, and Discipleship that Fits. He has been married to Cindy for over 35 years and they have two adult children who are disciples of Jesus.

https://discipleship.org/

Guest appearance on:

Leadership Conversations // New Testament Discipleship with Bobby Harrington

Guest

Dave Edwards

Dave Edwards is the Pastor of Discipleship at Church Project The Woodlands.

Guest appearance on:

Guest

Jeff Wells

Jeff is the founding pastor of WoodsEdge Community Church in Spring, Texas.

Jeff loves pastoring, and especially enjoys leading, preaching, and mentoring young pastors. He is also the author of six books: The Great Verses (2015), Breaking Free of OCD (2016), Love: Revealing the Heart of God (2018), Unhurried Time With God (2019), Soul on Fire: The Privilege of Preaching (2020), and Pray as They Prayed: A Guide to the Bible's Greatest Prayers (2025).

Jeff's two favorite hobbies are reading and running, and he and his wife Gayle love hiking together, especially when they are away from the Texas heat!

https://www.woodsedge.org/jeffwells/

Guest appearance on:

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Joby Martin

Joby Martin is the founder and lead pastor of The Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida. Since launching the church in 2012, he has led a movement for all people to discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ. In addition to providing The Church of Eleven22 with vision and leadership, Pastor Joby is a national and international preacher and teacher.

https://jobymartin.com/

Guest

Matt Rule

Matt Rule is the pastor of Church Project North County.

Guest

Pablo Di Gilio

Pablo Di Gilio is the Network Director for the Church Project Network.

Guest

Ralph Moore

Ralph Moore is the founding pastor of three churches which grew into the Hope Chapel movement now numbering more than 2,300 churches worldwide. These are the offspring of the 70+ congregations launched from Ralph’s hands-on disciplemaking efforts.

He currently serves as “church multiplication catalyzer” for Exponential. In addition to this, he travels the globe, teaching church multiplication to pastors in startup movements. He has authored several books, including Making Disciples, How to Multiply Your Church, Starting a New Church, Defeating Anxiety, and Let Go of the Ring: The Hope Chapel Story.

https://ralphmoore.net/

Guest

Steve Bezner

Steve Bezner is the former Senior Pastor of Houston Northwest Church. Steve loves to preach, write and help people understand the Bible. Today, Steve is a professor at Truett Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Guest

Tim Hawks

Tim Hawks has served as the Lead Pastor of Hill Country Bible Church Austin for over 30 years which, by God’s grace and faithful provision, has formed the Association of Hill Country Churches and planted 39 churches in the Greater Austin area. He has been instrumental in founding and shaping Christ Together – a citywide and nationwide cooperative movement of churches and kingdom leaders across denominations and throughout major cities – unifying the church to saturate their cities with the love of Jesus. Tim has also enjoyed training international church planters, serving on the Board of EastWest Ministries International, and collaborating with Exponential to develop multiplying churches.

https://exponential.org/person/tim-hawks/

Guest appearance on:

Leadership Conversations // Evangelism and Discipleship with Tim Hawks

Guest

Trace Howard

Guest appearance on:

Sermon Conversations // Galatians 4:21-31