HeyJaredThat NAMS Podcast
Lessons from NAMS Servant General Jon Shuler as he dives into 50 years of stories of church planting, leadership and disciple-making while exploring what it means to be a reforming Anglican in the 21st century.
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143 - "There's No Such Thing as New Testament Church Planting" — What NAMS Actually Aims to Reproduce - September 24th, 2026 (opens the original)
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There's No Such Thing as New Testament Church Planting" — What NAMS Actually Aims to Reproduce Description: Over breakfast, a friend who grew a church from 125 people to over 5,000 kept using a phrase Jon Shuler couldn't let stand: "New Testament church planting." So Shuler challenged him — there's really no such thing. The early church spread across the Roman Empire before the New Testament existed as a book in anyone's hands. What shaped those first congregations wasn't a text but a living pat
142 - You Seem So Focused on the Spread of the Gospel — And That's Not Normal - September 1, 2026 (opens the original)
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"You Seem So Focused on the Spread of the Gospel — And That's Not Normal" A Presbyterian pastor once told Jon Shuler he didn't seem like an ordinary Anglican: "You seem so focused on the spread of the gospel, and that's not normal." In episode 142 — the third and final part on branding — Shuler takes that offhand remark and turns it into a searching question about what NAMS has become and what it could be. He faces the hard reality that by 2006 the society had helped plant over 227 churches in N
141 - "It Was Easier to Understand the Koran Than to Understand Anglican" - August 25th, 2026 (opens the original)
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"It Was Easier to Understand the Koran Than to Understand Anglican" In episode 141, Jon Shuler keeps pressing on branding — and lets a string of painful, honest moments do the work. A mission student, required to study the Koran for his degree, told Shuler he found it easier to grasp than the word "Anglican." A respected church planter turned down the NAMS family with a single line: "I really don't have energy to join your Anglican Civil War." Two senior clergy pulled him aside to say his vision
140 - What's in a Name? — Jon Shuler on Branding, the Anglican Label, and What NAMS Really Means - August 11, 2026 (opens the original)
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What's in a Name? — Jon Shuler on Branding, the Anglican Label, and What NAMS Really Means In episode 140, Jon Shuler dips his toes into AI for the first time and asks ChatGPT a simple question: what does "NAMS" mean? The answers — a Korean surname, an Indian nickname meaning "to honor," and, memorably, the North American Menopause Society — launch a wide-ranging and often funny reflection on the power of branding. But underneath the humor is a serious concern: the word "Anglican" triggers an in
139 - Are We Placing Something Ahead of Christ? - July 7th, 2026 (opens the original)
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"Are We Placing Something Ahead of Christ?" — Jon Shuler on Anglican Identity and the Danger of Idolatry Where your treasure is, there your heart is also. In episode 139, Jon Shuler follows the money — and what he sees troubles him. So much of what the church spends is devoted not to mission, but to maintaining a distinctly Anglican identity. Watching the FIFA World Cup, he's struck by how sport becomes an idol for millions — and how the same thing can happen, quietly and unconsciously, with Chr
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