Collective Leadership
Exploring spaces for leaders to discover, collaborate, and prepare together for God's work in the world. A series of conversations from the Metro District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, for churches, pastors, and leaders in the Metro District and around the world who are looking to impact their communities with Spirit-led leadership and kingdom values for multi-ethnic, multicultural expressions of the gospel. Hosted by Kelvin Walker and Kim Valenzuela.
Collective Leadership
Ep. 11 - The Deeply Formed Life - Rich Villodas
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Pastor Rich Villodas
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Episode 11
Rich Villodas, Lead Pastor of New Life Fellowship, joins hosts Kim Valenzuela and Metro District superintendent Rev. Kelvin Walker to discuss his book, The Deeply-Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus.
This episode is packed with hard questions and insightful dialogue for how our lives can be deeply formed in Christ.
10 Questions Unpacked:
- How do the five values hold a wholistic vision of spiritual formation, rather than a compartmentalized spiritual life and practice?
- How can a place of prayer help cultivate Contemplative Rhythms?
- Why does Rich believe racial justice is vital to our spiritual formation?
- How is our understanding of the gospel too small?
- How can we help and encourage monocultural churches, and especially those in predominantly monocultural contexts live out the value of racial justice?
- Does failing to lean into hard conversations about race hinder our spiritual formation and specifically our ability to have an effective Missional Presence?
- How can defining terms help make the hard conversations more productive?
- How is Rich handling a growing platform in this season?
- Why is it critical to become more self-aware as one has more influence?
- How can a commitment to stability and rootedness prevent us from missing opportunities to grow and be formed by the difficult and wonderful elements of life in community?
Rich Villodas and The Deeply Formed Life resources: https://www.richvillodas.com/
New Life Fellowship: https://newlife.nyc/
The Metro District: https://metrocma.org/
Collective Leadership Podcast: https://metrocma.org/podcast/