The Post-Christian Podcast – Steve Carter (Author and Speaker)

In this episode I interview Steve Carter, the bestselling author of The Thing Beneath the Thing, a book about learning to allow God to heal our triggers, insecurities, and past wounds so we can experience spiritual health and wholeness.

We talked about his experience at Willow Creek, healing from wounds in life and “church hurt” along with insights from his upcoming book Grieve, Breathe, Receive: Finding a Faith Strong Enough to Hold Us.

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Invisible Influence in Africa

Goodie sent me a great article on Willow Creek’s outreach to Africa called “Making the Local Church A Hero.” One particular sentence caught my eye.

“While Willow’s contribution to these ministries is vital, the megachurch’s role is nearly invisible.”

With an approach that comes along effective work already being accomplished by indigenous African leaders, Willow Creek has been able to serve exponentially more people than they could have on their own.

Mark Galli writes: “Willow Creek’s outreach to Africa—specifically Angola, Zambia, Malawi, and South Africa—is as extensive as it is extraordinary. And it is extensive, ironically and precisely, because it bypasses multimillion-dollar nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to work mostly with local churches. And hardly ever with other megachurches, but small, small churches. Furthermore, Willow refuses to bring to bear most of its vast expertise and technological resources. Instead, it relies on the basic resources and expertise of that small, local church….

The people I met and the churches I visited in South Africa are the heroes. That’s partly because they (not North Americans) are also “the experts,” the people on the ground who know directly what the problems are. They are also part of believing communities that have people in them who sacrificially rise to the challenges God places before them. Willow, like many other North American churches doing church-to-church mission, knows all this. It’s the reason Willow tries to support the local work, and then just gets out of the way.”