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March 1, 2023

A Different Way of Doing Church

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In this alumni spotlight episode of Engage360, David Swenson, MA in Theology, co-founder of Thrive Tutoring and co-pastor of Coram Deo, shares about the way his team has built their church centered around communities of small groups of people in close relationship with one another with a focus on developing leaders.

He also discusses being a bi-vocational pastor, the importance of diversity in churches, and the difference between given authority and earned authority.

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