The Venture 12 Podcast

Phil Wall shares his experiences of pioneering and innovating both in the market place and through the emergence of new expressions of church. He is a leadership coach helping leaders across the world to become the best version of themselves they can possibly be. His heart however lies with 'We see Hope'; the organisation he founded together with his wife, Wendy, which seeks to empower children an...

In the final episode of 2021, Dr. Miguel De La Torre shares stories and experiences of how intentionally shifting our perspectives to the margins when reading the Bible can help bring us closer to Jesus, truth and justice. 

What if the word “homosexual” was never meant to be in the Bible? In this conversation with Author and LGBTQ Activist Kathy Baldock we explore how the word "homosexual" came to be in the Bible as a result of translation error in work towards releasing 1946 Revised Standard Version of the Bible. This was the first time the "word" ever appeared in scripture in any language! In this fascinating episo...

In this episode, doulas Vanessa Power and Jessica Becton Stephens share how they serve through their gifts and callings by leading a missional micro church aimed at supporting women through pregnancy and child birth.

In this podcast Dr Fran Porter compellingly shares how the story and paradigm of Christendom shapes the story of the church and crucial human relationships. Those between men and women. Join us for a whirlwind tour of the world you thought you knew, but that you're only just discovering!

There are so many feelings, ideas and traditions surrounding the bible. How to read it, how to use it and how to understand it. In this episode we talk to Bradley Jersak about the scriptures, authority and WHO the Word is. (Spoiler: The Word grew a beard, when he was 18).  How do we avoid on the one hand modern literalism and on the other hand throwing out the Bible all together as irrelevant...

In the second episode of our miniseries on the fivefold, we welcome Nathan Brewer who is a church planter in Austria,  a 5Q coach and  the Author of The Pulse of Christ: A fivefold Training Manual. Nathan talks to us about why the fivefold is important for the health and maturity of the church and also helps us move forward from just concepts and awareness to how the fivefold gifts can a...

In this episode part of the core leadership team in Helsingborg Salvation Army share stories of what it looks like when the diverse APEST callings and functions (Eph. 4) collaborate to release the potential in one another, in discipleship and mission.

The Starfish and The Spirit is about creating a culture where leaders view themselves as curators of a community in mission, not as a source of certainty for every question and problem. Imagine a church led by a team whose gifts and talents are completely unleashed, enabling everyone to show up and step up with all they are. What would it look like to see this kind of healthy leadership for genera...

In this episode we welcome Emma Scott, church leader in Mitcham, to share her thoughts on the New Monastic practice of “sharing a common rule of life”. A practical conversation on how sharing common practices can help shape our walk with Jesus as well as the communities we live in.

Jonny Baker inspires imagination and creativity in this conversation about how the church and acts of worship could look post pandemic. "The challenge facing Christianity today is not a lack of motivation or resources, but a failure of imagination." - Skye Jethani.

This time we interview Paula Gooder who is a Pauline Scholar, writer, speaker and more. Join us on a journey back in time to the early church to encounter one of the key catalysts and leaders in the  expansion of Christianity. "Very few people are as expert as Paula Gooder in communicating biblical scholarship clearly and creatively". - Rowan Williams

What is the Bible? Who is it for? How have we been using it? How should we use it? How should we teach it? Where does it fit in the future of the church? Dr. Peter Enns shares his wisdom on how to handle the Bible by letting it be exactly what it is. "The Bible deconstructs from within what the church has made of it." P. Enns

A conversation with Alan Hirsch. We have become so over reliant on particular ways of being and doing church. The challenge of leadership now is to lead – and not just get through it but come through into what the Lord has been telling us and many of us have been dreaming of for so long? An adaptive ecclesiology for the 21st Century.

“The restoration of the church will surely come from a new kind of monasticism, which will have nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising adherence to the Sermon on the Mount in imitation of Christ.” Dietrich Bohnhoffer Mark Scott from The UK Salvation Army joins us to talk about the growing interest in New Monasticism and its role in the future Church, and how this has shaped th...

Dave Ferguson is an award-winning author, founding and lead pastor of Chicago’s Community Christian Church, a missional multi-site community considered one of the most influential churches in America. Dave is also the visionary for the international church-planting movement NewThing and president of the Exponential Conference. He joins us to share practices and tools for apprenticing, multiplying...

The church that we have inherited has been bound by a patriarchal model which has deprived the mission of Jesus of its explosive impact. Enabling the re-emergence of female apostolic voices in the design and shaping of the future church is critical for such a culturally defining moment as this. Emma Cotterill shares examples and insight in to the central role of women in the early church as we exp...

In preparation for the next V12 Network gathering, Mark Cotterill shares the incredible story of St Patrick and how his story impacted the culture and church of the time, but how it also can teach us about the importance of apostolic listening and acting today.

In Episode 2 we discuss the theology behind APEST - the fivefold ministry giftings found in Ephesians 4. Join with Diane and Penny as they take us in to the depths of this letter.

The first episode welcomes Jonny Smith to take us to a deeper level of understanding about intercultural mission. Justice, beauty, mutual inconvenience and more.  ...on earth as it is in Heaven.