Summary: Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: [iTunes] [RSS] [Stitcher] [TuneIn] // [VIDEO iTunes] [VIDEO RSS] Tim Day is the Senior Pastor of The Meeting House, one of Canada’s largest churches, and author of the book, God Enters Stage Left. An engaging speaker and active writer, Tim along with Teaching Pastor Bruxy Cavey, lead a dedicated staff and church family in helping communicate the irreligious message of Jesus to those who may have given up on God or are simply asking spiritual questions. In this episode Tim talks about why his church has given away nearly 30,000 copies of his latest book. He digs into the philosophy and strategy of FREE and how it's impacting his thinking. If you are pastor looking to spread your message this episode is for you! Tim Day // [Website] [twitter] [Download an ePUB version of God Enters Stage Left for FREE] Interview Highlights // 00:30 // Rich welcomes his friend and former boss, Tim Day 00:57 // Tim gives a history of The Meeting House 02:45 // Tim released his new book 'God Enters Stage Left' in December 2013 04:11 // Book was birthed out if his desire to distill down the narrative of the Bible for the average person 06:20 // Tim shares stories of people whose lives have been changed in a few short months 08:19 // This book helps accomplish one of TMH's goals to invite 100,000 people to the message of Jesus 09:30 // The church has since printed 30,000 copies, given them away and invited people to contribute to the printing cost 11:04 // Books are the new business card 11:54 // Tim explains why he didn't want to charge for the book 15:20 // The Meeting House has generously offered to allow other churches use it as a resource, even reprint them with a new forward by your pastor 17:11 // Pens, books, marketing and evangelism 19:19 // Tim encourages listeners to keep dreaming about how to create points of contact conversations Lightning Round Highlights Helpful Tech Tools // Bible Web App, NET Bible Book Worth Reading // Innovation's Dirty Little Secret by Larry Osborne, God in My Everything by Ken Shigematsu Inspiring Ministries // EastLake Church Inspiring Leader // Larry Page, CEO Google What does he do for fun? // Basketball, running Interview Transcript // Rich - Alright well, welcome to the unSeminary Podcast. Happy Thursday. Hope you are having a great week as we get ready for this weekend at your church. I am super excited about this podcast. I have a friend, my former boss, great guy. Excited to have him. We've got Tim Day from The Meeting House. Hey Tim, welcome to the show! Tim - Hey, it's great to be here Rich. Thanks for having me. Rich - For folks who don't know, The Meeting House is a network of churches all across Canada, or really around Ontario. Tim, why don't you tell us a bit about The Meeting House, tell us about your church. Give us a sense of your ministry. Tim - Sure. The Meeting House has been around, well was planted as a seeker focussed church back in the mid 80's but it really started to take off just before the year 2000. So it's grown up over the last 16 years let's say from about 200 people to about 5500 on a typical weekend. We have 14 locations as you said, around Ontario where our hub is the Toronto area and we spread out from there. You were a huge part of that. You helped us launch into multisite. That's how we've grown. Our theological stream, we come out of the radical side of the reformation, so the renewal movements, you think of sort of the Anabaptists with messages around peace, community, personal discipleship, radical, Jesus focused discipleship. But also influenced by people like John Wesley and again real focus on evangelism, discipleship, piotus movements. Anything that get's people fired up for Jesus. Get them out doing something to change the world. That's our little stream that we come from, are the people that are jazzed about that.
