107. Childlike Faith, Adultlike Leadership, with Mandy Smith, author of Unfettered

Spiritual Life and Leadership

Mandy Smith is a pastor and the author of Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture. In this episode, Mandy discusses the ways we are called to embrace childlikeness, while resisting childishness. And, at the same time, we are called to embrace mature adultlikeness, while resisting insecure adultishness.
THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDES:

• Mandy Smith is a pastor and the author of Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture.
• Mandy wrote Unfettered over the course of five years and four re-writes, having initially written a very “adult-like” exposition of childlike faith.
• Mandy Smith explains the difference between “adultish” and “adult-like.”
• Mandy shares how she began to explore what it means to have a childlike faith.
• God is the initiator of mission in the world. We are called to rest, receive, and respond.
  • Rest from the assumption that it’s all up to me.
  • From that rest, we always receive from the Source of all things.
  • Our response, then is to step into the adult-like agency of leadership.
• Mandy Smith further unpacks the rest, receive, respond framework.
• Western culture tends to reduce human beings down to what we think and what we do.
• If we truly believe God is carrying our lives and the world, we can stop and rest sometimes.

RELEVANT RESOURCES AND LINKS:

• Mandy Smith:
  • Website: www.thewayistheway.org
• Books mentioned:
  • Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture, by Mandy Smith
  • The Vulnerable Pastor, by Mandy Smith
  • These books are available wherever you buys books, including https://www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/
• Listen to Mandy Smith’s earlier episode:
  • Episode 36: The Vulnerable Pastor, with Mandy Smith

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