Vile Methods

Tyler Kaufmann

🔥 Waking the Dead. Reviving the Faithful. Unleashing a Movement. 🔔 What happens when faith refuses to play by the rules? Welcome to the podcast about disrupting complacency, reclaiming discipleship, and reviving Jesus’ people. Inspired by John Wesley’s call to be "more vile," we explore stories of renegade pastors, guerrilla evangelists, and holy provocateurs breaking the mold to embody the Gospel. 👉 Visit vilemethods.com for resources, stories, and more. Subscribe now and join the movement. 🔥💀🔔 Hosted by Rev. Dr. Tyler Kaufmann - Produced by Freedom Ringers Press

Episodes

  1. Mike Mather - Tips for Community Development in the Church Part 2 of 2

    05/13/2021

    Mike Mather - Tips for Community Development in the Church Part 2 of 2

    My guest again is Pastor Mike Mather. Mike is a leader in equipping the church to engage in community development. The author of "Having Nothing, Possessing Everything", Mike shares inspirational stories about nudging a faith community to positively impact the neighborhood where they reside. Mike is ordained in the United Methodist Church currently serving as the Senior Pastor at First UMC in Boulder, CO, and a faculty member of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute housed at DePaul University. Key Topics and Tips Discussed 1 minutes - Doing Less to Do More 3 minutes - Listen to the Youth! - Learning from the wisdom of 13 and 14 year old entrepreneurs 6 minutes - Letting Go of our desire to control to make way for God's Way 10 min - PARTY with your neighbors! 12 min - NUDGE EVANGELISM - Celebrating the amazing things our congregants and neighbors are doing 17 min - Uh Oh! We're being investigated by the health department 18 min - How poor are you is the wrong question? So what is the correct one? 20 min - Recognizing the Gift of our neighbors with a Roving Listener  23 min - Importance of Celebrating what's being done 25 min - Discovering Life by letting go of programs and affirming gifts 30 min - Going Rogue with Nude Ushers and Lottery Tickets? 31 min - The trouble with review forms 35 min - How this Changes the common pastoral practices of preaching, weddings, baptisms, etc 40 min - Where to Learn More - The Learning Tree 44 min - Give power away to make more happen. 47 min - ¡¡ Round 2 of Would You Rather !! The Learning Tree https://thelearningtrees.com/ You can learn more about Mike and his work at https://fumcboulder.org/meet-rev-mike-mather-our-new-pastor/ https://resources.depaul.edu/abcd-institute/faculty/Pages/mike-mather.aspx Visit Vile Methods online at vilemethods.com and on social media @vilemethods or @vilemethodist Subscribe Now so you won't miss a single nugget of wisdom, fantastic tale, or moment of laughter. Intro and Outro Music are by royalty free artist Joakim Karud, subscribe and patron him on Patreon to get access to great music.

    53 min
  2. Mike Mather - Tips for Community Development in the Church Part 1 of 2

    03/31/2021

    Mike Mather - Tips for Community Development in the Church Part 1 of 2

    My guest today is Pastor Mike Mather. Mike is a leader in equipping the church to engage in community development. The author of a book on my personal top 10 list of must reads, "Having Nothing, Possessing Everything," Mike shares inspirational stories about nudging a faith community to positively impact the neighborhood where they reside. Mike is ordained in the United Methodist Church currently serving as the Senior Pastor at First UMC in Boulder, CO, and a faculty member of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute. Key Topics and Tips Discussed 5 minutes - Making the Mindset Shift from programming to collaboration 12 minutes - Theology of Abundance - “I realized, all the practices in the church around this are built around scarcity, not around God’s abundance. And so the only things I knew how to do were to try to fill empty spaces, rather than to recognize that those spaces I thought of as empty were actually full of something else.” 13 minutes - Pay Attention to, “How [can] we see God’s abundance, where everybody else sees nothing?” 14 min - We discuss why 'Teach a Man to Fish' is still misplaced, and how it keeps us from the gifts of people in the community. 15 min - What Advantage Does the Church Have? - more discussion on theological framing of God’s abundance 17 min - Acting into new ways of Thinking (including the act of asking questions) 18 min - How poor are you is the wrong question? So what is the correct one?  19 min - Hire a Connector 25 min - What Questions to Ask - John McKnight - 'The Future of Low Income Neighborhoods and the People that Reside There', 10 page survey 26 min - Discovering Gifts 31 min - Strategic Clever Introductions - introducing the congregation to community residents/citizens/collaborators/partners We had some static on the line. Apologies for that. You can learn more about Mike and his work at https://fumcboulder.org/meet-rev-mike-mather-our-new-pastor/ https://resources.depaul.edu/abcd-institute/faculty/Pages/mike-mather.aspx Visit Vile Methods online at vilemethods.com and on social media @vilemethods or @vilemethodist Subscribe Now so you won't miss a single nugget of wisdom, fantastic tale, or moment of laughter. Intro and Outro Music are by royalty free artist Joakim Karud, subscribe and patron him on Patreon to get access to great music.

    41 min
  3. Adam Barlow-Thompson - How to Read Your Community, Connect with Your Neighbors, and Transform Your Corner of the World.

    03/09/2021

    Adam Barlow-Thompson - How to Read Your Community, Connect with Your Neighbors, and Transform Your Corner of the World.

    My guest is Adam Barlow-Thompson. Adam is the Co-Founder of Neighboring Movement in Wichita, Kansas where he lives out a calling on his heart to teach people how to be a good neighbor. Adam is ordained in the Great Plains Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Some Key Topics We Discuss 2 minutes - What is asset based community development? 4 minutes - How to Read Your Community. 7 minutes - How to connect with your neighborhood, then the neighborhood where the church building is 9 minutes - How to let go of and grieve ministries that are dead or on life support. 13 minutes - How to do a funeral for an old ministry. 19 minutes - From being faithful to starting a non-profit. 22 minutes - Who is a neighbor? Exactly how "local" do you need to get? 25 minutes - A lesson from my mother. 27 minutes - Practical steps for being a good neighbor and the mechanics of neighboring. Our apologies for the static on the line. You can learn more about Adam and his work at https://neighboringmovement.org/ Visit Vile Methods online at vilemethods.com, on social media @vilemethods or @vilemethodist, and check us out at Facebook.com/VileMethods Subscribe Now so you won't miss a single nugget of wisdom, fantastic tale, or moment of laughter. Intro and Outro Music are by royalty free artist Joakim Karud, subscribe and patron him on Patreon to get access to great music.

    47 min

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🔥 Waking the Dead. Reviving the Faithful. Unleashing a Movement. 🔔 What happens when faith refuses to play by the rules? Welcome to the podcast about disrupting complacency, reclaiming discipleship, and reviving Jesus’ people. Inspired by John Wesley’s call to be "more vile," we explore stories of renegade pastors, guerrilla evangelists, and holy provocateurs breaking the mold to embody the Gospel. 👉 Visit vilemethods.com for resources, stories, and more. Subscribe now and join the movement. 🔥💀🔔 Hosted by Rev. Dr. Tyler Kaufmann - Produced by Freedom Ringers Press