The Church as Embassy

About this episode

The episode discusses the church as an outpost or embassy, emphasizing its role in creating biblically rooted families.

It's our final week of Transforming Culture, season four! Thank you for being on this journey with us, and know that we appreciate you! If you want more MBC content throughout the year, consider listening in to our Teaching Archive podcast - where we post sessions from our MBC summer and retreat seasons for you. This week on the Transforming Culture podcast, we're closing our season with one of our favourite sessions of last summer - not only because our Bible teacher, Sean Sheeran, is a gifted and generous speaker, but also because the topic really hits home when it comes to MBC's mission and vision: we want to create biblically rooted, resilient families, and we believe that is best accomplished through the local church! So, when Sean said he wanted to talk about the church as a type of outpost or embassy, we were thrilled. Enjoy! ----- ----- ----- Speaker Bio: Sean first attended Hespeler Baptist Church as a non-Christian at age 17. Through the preaching of the gospel and the friendship of Christians, God showed him of his need to repent of his sin, believe in Jesus Christ and be saved. From there Sean attended Heritage Bible College, graduating with a Bachelor of Religious…

People in this episode

Guest: Sean Sheeran

Topics covered

• church as embassy
• local church
• biblically rooted families
• spirituality
• Christianity

Keywords

• church
• embassy
• families
• spirituality
• Christianity
• Muskoka Bible Centre
• Sean Sheeran

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Muskoka Bible Centre, Hespeler Baptist Church, Heritage Bible College, Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada, Heritage Seminary

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