That NAMS Podcast

"Are We Placing Something Ahead of Christ?" — Jon Shuler on Anglican Identity and the Danger of Idolatry Where your treasure is, there your heart is also. In episode 139, Jon Shuler follows the money — and what he sees troubles him. So much of what the church spends is devoted not to mission, but to maintaining a distinctly Anglican identity. Watching the FIFA World Cup, he's struck...

"Would Any of Them Die for Me?" — The Question That Took a Successful Rector to His Knees By every external measure, the parish was a triumph: the largest in the diocese, 700 people every Sunday, 1,500 at Easter, a 17-person staff, decades of unbroken growth. Its rector was proud — and he had every worldly reason to be. Then, kneeling alone at the communion rail one evening in 1987, he h...

"A Christian Not Making Another Christian May Not Yet Be aChristian" — Jon Shuler on the One Thing Worth Measuring Description Before Jon Shuler had a PhD in church history or a degree in theology, he was a civil engineer — and in episode 137 he reaches back to a diagram from that first training to ask a question every church planter must face. Every church takes in the same resources: p...

Part 10 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series. "We relate to the Anglican Family — we serve beyond it." — Jon Shuler on the Final Two Articles of the NAMS Rule In episode 136, Jon Shuler brings the Rule series toward its close by covering Articles IV and V — doctrine and ecclesiastical connection. On doctrine: the faith NAMS contends for is not something any generation gets to re...

Part 9 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series . "We Are Not a Disembodied Community" — The Call to the 2027 NAMS Global Novena A rule without purpose is just bureaucracy. In episode 135, Jon Shuler steps back before finishing Article III to ask the question that underlies everything: are we getting the results we desire? His honest answer is no — and that's exactly why NAMS ex...

Part 8 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series. "You May Not Leave Her in a Separate Room" — Marriage, Mission, and the NAMS Companion An Anglican order of married church planters is, Jon Shuler admits in episode 134, quite unique in Christian history. And that uniqueness creates a real tension: what happens when the demands of the companion calling collide with the sacred bond of...

Part 7 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series. "If We Cannot Say New Churches Have Been Started, We Must Weep" - The Defining Reality of a NAMS Companion In episode 133, Jon Shuler returns to the acorn image from the previous week and pushes it further: an acorn planted but not germinating, a Bible study that hasn't multiplied in fifteen years, a movement smaller every year th...

Part 6 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series. "Are You in a Great Commission Cell?" — The Question Every NAMS Companion Must Answer Every NAMS companion has agreed to lead or be part of a Great Commission cell. But in episode 132, Jon Shuler asks plainly: do you know what one is? Drawing on the evolution of the definition from 1994 to 2017 — and his own story of moving to Charlot...

Part 5 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series. "The Odds Are Slim to None" — Why Many Church Settings Can't Produce What NAMS Requires Jon Shuler opens episode 131 with a striking admission: even the congregation he worships in — one he has preached and taught and discipled in for years — is not a Great Commission congregation. Not even close. The problem, he argues, runs deep...

Part 4 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series "That's Not True" — Why Discipleship Alone Is Not the Purpose of NAMS | Anglican Church Planting Podcast Many NAMS companions have come to believe the purpose of the society is to make disciples. In episode 130, Jon Shuler says plainly: that's not true. The purpose of NAMS is to plant new Great Commission congregations — and yo...

Part 3 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series Every Companion. Every Season. Every Location. — The Objectives That Never Stop. | Anglican Church Planting Podcast Goals have deadlines. Objectives don't. In the third installment of this series on the 2017 NAMS Rule and Customary Order, Jon Shuler moves to Article II — "Our Continuing Objectives as a Society" — and explains why t...

Part 2 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series "I Would Rather Die Than Deny It" — The Charge That Defines NAMS | Anglican Church Planting Podcast Continuing the series on the 2017 NAMS Rule and Customary Order, episode 128 turns to Article I — the NAMS Charge. On May 29, 1998, Archbishop Moses Tay gave Jon Shuler four sentences over lunch in Singapore that have shaped the New Angl...

Part 1 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series What Does NAMS Mean by "Church," "Mission," and "Pioneering"? | Anglican Church Planting Podcast In the opening episode of this series walking through the 2017 NAMS Rule and Customary Order, host Jon Shuler unpacks three foundational words embedded in the preamble — words that define everything the New Anglican Miss...

Jon begins to discuss the NAMS Rule of 2017

Jon Discusses the next steps for the NAMS Board and the NAMS Order.

Continuing the discussion of the history of the NAMS Rule, Jon shares the good news that has come from the recent global leadership 4 day retreat.

Jon continues to the story of the NAMS rule and brings us up to 2022 The mission and ministry of NAMS as an order of church planters is guided and bounded by the Rule (2024), but it must be carefully interpreted in the light of it’s development in order that we do the work that God has called us to do from the beginning. This series tries to give to the Society that history in order to strengthen...

Jon continues the discussion of the NAMS rule. The mission and ministry of NAMS as an order of church planters is guided and bounded by the Rule(2024), but it must be carefully interpreted in the light of it’s development in order that we do the work that God has called us to do from the beginning. This series tries to give to the Society that history in order to strengthen our faithfulness in the...

Jon begins a series that will discuss The NAMS Rule: History and Practice. The mission and ministry of NAMS as an order of church planters is guided and bounded by the Rule(2024), but it must be carefully interpreted in the light of it’s development in order that we do the work that God has called us to do from the beginning. This series tries to give to the Society that history in order to streng...

Jon talks about the basic duty of the follower of Christ.  

Jon ponders the outcome of a multimillion dollar Lilly grant.

Jon Shuler asks what do we do when the foundations are shaken?

A Church Planters Flow Chart. Jon shares a practical framework for thinking about, helping, and tracking new work.

Jon discusses the importance of what we need to do when challenged by events in the wider world

Are we seeing the Death of a Communion?