IM Podcasts

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Helping members of the body of Christ to experience, mature in, and communicate effectively the message of identification with Christ in His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension in the believer's various spheres of influence. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drstephenphinney.substack.com/subscribe

Christ as Life, or centered, discipleship is a servant leader (discipler of Christ) who is compelled to voluntarily instruct others in becoming a follower of Christ in Truth and deed. When fronted with lies (truth out of context), the discipler is not timid about reproving, correcting and re-instructing by making use of Divine Truth – the Bible. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t...

A simple term to describe what the Word defines as the number one problem in life — mankind attempting to function as their own god in the lives of self, others, and even God. This includes suffering with divorce, suicide, eating problems, depression, or any other common problem with the self-life. Most of the time, it falls under the category of Godship -finding ways to fix the fix that God has f...

Rejection is withholding love from self, others, and God. There are two types of rejection: overt and covert. Overt rejection is obvious or known rejection, i.e. “I hate you.” Covert rejection is subtle or unknown rejection, i.e. smiling on the outside while judging on the inside. Both of these forms of rejection are consequences of Godship applied, either by self or by others. Without question, w...

External/Internal is an individual attempting to gain love, acceptance, and significance from external resources, which is idolatry. Since Godship sets up “self-rule,” the individual works to turn negative externals into positive ones, by making use of self-effort. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drstephenphinney...

Problems are direct consequences of self-life efforts. God then uses these problems to bring the believer to the end of their own resources, or self-life, in order to create a dependence on Christ’s Life from within. We believe that suffering is the key component to learning obedience to Christ Jesus, who actually lives in the born-again believer. It is these problems that reveal the person’s fles...

Flesh exhibits patterns, reactions, and/or sinful actions that reveal the believer’s self-life - trash left behind by the old nature. These fleshly reactions lead the believer to Life (Christ) or death (flesh) decisions. If the believer continues to choose self-life decisions, we believe God will bring this person to the end of himself through consequences formed by their own flesh. This, without...

Repentance is the process of confessing one’s sins, turning away from the self-life, and returning to a dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ from the inside out. This cannot be done effectively unless the Holy Spirit brings revelation to specific areas of the flesh that rise up against Jesus Christ. Once true repentance has occurred, the indwelt Christian can begin to apply their identity in Chr...

This is one of the most commonly accept terms used to describe the exchanged life. Since behavior comes from identity, what one believes to be their identity (Christ or self) makes a significant impact on daily living. It is of utmost importance that the indwelt believer places their identity in the message of identification with Christ in His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. This is a...

True righteousness can only be found in the One who is Righteous – Jesus Christ. Once a convert receives Christ into their lives, they become the Righteousness of Christ (2 Cor. 5:21). Self-righteousness is a fleshly and ungodly form of humans mustering up their own rightness before God and man (Rom. 10:3). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acces...

Extending Forgiveness before God, in prayer, is forgiving anyone who has hurt you. Once an indwelt believer gets to this point, he is usually quick to release all anger and pain before God, extending forgiveness to those who initially hurt him, and in many cases, is ready to seek forgiveness from others whom he has hurt (Matt. 5:22-24). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...

Seeking Forgiveness is the process of going to an individual whom you have offended by action or reaction, seeking their forgiveness, and restoring the relationship when possible. Once the believer has extended forgiveness before God on how he was hurt, he usually is released to go and seek the forgiveness for his part in the offense. We find that when a believer reaches this stage of discipleship...

Resting, Abiding, and Walking are the result of appropriating true forgiveness in all areas of life. It is living in the present, releasing the Life of Christ in you to be obedient to the Father through your mind, will, and emotions. When an indwelt believer gets to this point in growth, he is able to confront the self-centered view of life and to embrace the challenge of releasing the mind of Chr...

Love Life is the pinnacle of the Christian Life. Once appropriating the aforementioned 10 definitions/steps, the indwelt believer begins to embrace the two primary commandments spoken of by Christ: love the Lord with your whole heart and secondly, love your neighbor as yourself (Mark 1:30-31). The result is, when we obey we have no condemnation. When we have no condemnation, we have confidence tow...

Our culture is changing faster than any other culture in church history and the youth are disillusioned and confused. Confused literally means, “the lack of understanding – resulting in fusion to uncertainty.” The bottom-line is, Gen-Z is being forced into fusion (the process, or result, of joining two or more things together to form a single entity and/or belief) - “pluralist.” PLEASE forward thi...

Gen-Z statistics are revealing that not only is our present generation & culture deeply confused about absolute Truth, gender and sexuality, but it reveals their generation re-fuses (rejecting fusion) to listen to the generations above them, as well as their fellow generational populous. This results in a generation that places their identity in a post-truth generational anti-ethics modality! PLEA...

Gen Z was born between 1999 to present, making the oldest of them 18 this year. Most of them are in their teens and childhood years. Gen Z is the second largest generation alive today. In the U.S. there are 69 million Z’ers, compared to 66 million Millennials (young parents), 55 million Gen Y (older parents) and 76 million older X-Boomers (grandparents). The parents of Gen Z are Gen Y and Millenni...

The Z’ers are statistically the most ethnic diverse (pluralist) generation alive today, and they have, for better and worse, grown up with technology at their fingertips. The smartphone was invented before most of them were even born – proving, technology was not a choice, as with their parents, but forced upon them because of parental choice. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss thi...

It is estimated that over 150,000 apps have been designed and aimed at this generation – making claims that their apps are increasing the educational paradigm. Even though these apps may be offering deeper involvement in learning and quicker response time to logic, researchers are proving that device dependence retards social skills, while forming an unhealthy dependence. Researchers have also not...

A significant aspect of this generation is their widespread Internet use from a young age. Members of Generation Z are typically thought of as being comfortable with technology, and interacting on social media websites for a significant portion of their socializing. Because of this dependence, they are known for being extremely insecure and unsettled. They are socially backwards, while at the same...

Matthew had just given an account of the miraculous conception of Jesus: of His being conceived by the Holy Spirit – the seed of God. God was therefore His Father. He was divine as well as human. His appropriate name, therefore, was “God with us.” And through the mere use of such a name, proof was given that He had a Divine (of the Father’s vine) nature, setting the eternal stage that Jesus was mo...

Why is it that a world can accept the birth of Jesus as a traditional Christmas holiday but reject Him as an Indwelling Savior? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drstephenphinney.substack.com/subscribe

So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them. But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable manner, and not only when I am present with you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drstephenphinney.subs...

So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them. But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable manner, and not only when I am present with you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drstephenphinney.subs...