10 Lessons in 10 Years of Soma The Saturate Podcast

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Duke Revard and Jeff Vanderstelt will be joined by Chris Gonzalez and Paul Dean. In 2020, we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Soma Family of Churches and we want to pause and look back and discuss what we have learned. Our conversation today asks the question, “what did you believe 10 years ago that you believe even more now?” Some things we were convinced of 10 year ago, some we were surprised by, some weren’t even in our awareness. 




Family identity



Discipleship requires significant relationships



Story-formed



Ministry is harder but for reasons you don’t understand



We assumed Spiritual Formation



Pew-sitters are found in any ecclesiology



Leadership development matters



Run the play but be flexible



Team is better



Our greatest failures are failures of faith, hope, and love