Resetting The Table: A Podcast About Deep Change @ Trinity Lutheran & First Presbyterian Church

Created for the Trinity Lutheran and First Presbyterian Church communities in Crookston Mn. Join Pastors Greg Isaacson (ELCA), Michael Ozaki (PCUSA) and special guests as we sharing the real life process, problems and pipe dreams that come as we discern how God is leading our churches to evolve for a "Post Covid" world. Why Are We Doing This? We want you to gain a deeper sense of where we are headed and the deep changes we are feeling called to face as a church in the "post covid age". All so that you might re-connect, re-engage and help us re-set the table for the new thing God is doing with us . All of this will culminate on Shrove Tuesday (March 1st) with a celebration and pancake breakfast that will unveil plans for the future and ask you to join in with new ideas, hopes and visions on your heart.

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Resetting The Table: A Podcast About Deep Change @ Trinity Lutheran & First Presbyterian Church

#2 The Tensions (1-24-2022)

January 24, 2022 • Michael Ozaki & Gregory Isaacson

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In this episode Brother (Rev.) Jeff Brown (Order of Lutheran Franciscans and pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Crookston) joins us with his unique views as a member of the .

Together we discuss the "tensions" that exist as we look towards big change in the church.
- What specific tensions are our communities need to deal with?
- What do we do with the inevitable grief?
- How does vulnerability play into the process?
- What are "Shadow Values" and how do they threaten to pull us off course.
And most of all
- What are "Core Values" and why they are key to navigating these questions?

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Gregory Isaacson

Co-host

Michael Ozaki

Co-host