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Grounded Podcast with Chuck Quinley

Grounded Podcast with Chuck Quinley

著者： Learn to be rock solid even if the world around you is not
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Grounded is about forming resilient disciples of Jesus who stand firm while the world shakes. Drawing on 50 years of serious Bible study and a lifetime following Jesus across cultures, Dr. Chuck Quinley explores what the worldview, practices, commands, and mission of Jesus mean for the decade we're entering. No Christian self-help and no easy answers—just disciples learning to follow Jesus together, whatever comes next.

www.quinley.comChuck & Sherry Quinley キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 哲学 社会科学 聖職・福音主義
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  • Where I'm going with Grounded in the next year

    Where I'm going with Grounded in the next year
    2026/09/08
    I saw a video once where someone said, “You have consumed enough already.” That really struck me hard because I am very much a media person. He said confidently from the Lord that if I never consumed another book, movie, or song, I have seen more in my lifetime than any previous generation. I don’t need to consume any more. It doesn’t help me grow. It just piles more learning on top of old learning. A lot of which we were never actually going to put into practice anyway. What will change you, however, is creating. It’s kind of amazing God math. One of those “Give, and it will be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over” kind of things. In real world math, it should say, “TAKE, and you will have more.” But in God’s way, if you create something new with Him, you’ll end up richer than if you consume. No one learns more than a teacher. It has certainly been true in my life concerning the Bible. No one learns more than the teacher, and I thank God for giving me the opportunity to serve in the role of teacher for so many years. Most of the things I have learned have come because I was living inside that position, and I had to create presentations of Bible thought blocks every week as a pastor and seminary leader for 20 years. So now I find myself a pastor without a church for the last 18 years. Thankfully, I have had Medialight. I’m the primary teacher there, but we have many others, and that’s been one of our major goals, creating more teachers. Online is a New Space for MinistryI’ve been doing face-to-face ministry for almost 50 years, but only three years ago did I start treating the online world as a real place that deserves my best effort. That’s when. I started making online content weekly, whether I had time or not. I’m embarrassed to look at my earliest efforts. It’s always like that. You learn by doing, and it’s the only way to learn, so you just have to push through those early stages to learn the workflow and production systems of a TV station, basically. In the last year, I have increased my flow, an episode a week plus a book, and we’re just now in September. It’s been a very demanding load, and it’s starting to feel like about 50% of my ministry. The online space allows you to reach people in different time zones when it’s convenient for them, and I think it has so much to offer beyond just being marketing for people to attend the Sunday service. I want to say how much I thank the people who support us personally through the emergemissions.org website and also as subscribers here on Substack. We are servants of the church, and we have always done our best to put our efforts where we feel they will be the most fruitful and appropriately spent. The online space is one of those places. The time to learn how to use it was made available to us because of the sponsorship of faithful friends, and again, I am so very grateful. Thanks for freeing me so I could create for the Lord. I want to explore the fruitfulness of the 24/7 decentralized online environment, and also I want to share my journey with the next generation of creators and help launch dozens of new voices online. We really need effective, skilled gospel communicators online to combat the flood of antichrist values and pure-out news lies that flood through our phones into our minds every day. Half of what we read is probably not even true or has been done just to create a news story. It’s really crazy. Becoming a public person is scary. Becoming a public person is a very powerful thing. It’s scary, but it yields a harvest of personal development. I would encourage everyone to do it, even if all you do is think seriously and make five-sentence Facebook posts designed to encourage other people. Just stop mindlessly consuming and try to add something of value to the net. Anyway, each week I have really poured my life into careful study of the Bible, and I have done my best to bring credible research to you. ReJesus everything is sort of my manifesto. This year I want to adjust down a little from being a Bible scholar type creator (there are a lot of those already in all our lives) and tune my attention to the real purpose for this platform: Grounded is about forming resilient disciples of Jesus who stand firm while the world shakes. I want to explore what the worldview, practices, commands, and mission of Jesus mean for all of us in the decade we’re entering. I want to try to turn this into an opportunity for a true gathering online of young disciples, and that our discussions can become part of their formation, not just information. The next ten years will be the wildest ride of our lives. I’m pretty certain of that. All the forces of change and destabilization are building up behind the dam, and eventually something’s going to break. I want to push Grounded into action to help a younger generation deal with that. You might sense a change in my tone and my ...
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  • The Bible’s Meta-Narrative: Which Story Are You Reading?

    The Bible’s Meta-Narrative: Which Story Are You Reading?
    2026/09/01
    What’s your Meta-Narrative? Every reader of the Bible comes with a lens. A framework. A big story about what the Bible is fundamentally about. And that lens determines everything—how you interpret individual passages, how you understand Jesus, how you live your life.Most of us don’t realize we have a lens. We think we’re just reading the Bible objectively. But we’re not. We’re reading it through a meta-narrative. A spine story that tells us what all the smaller stories are about.The question is: Which meta-narrative are you reading through? And more importantly—have you actually decided for yourself, or have you just accepted what someone else told you the story is?The Responsibility Is On YouAll of us can read. All of us have access to a Bible. The responsibility is on each of us to read that Bible, to study it, to meditate on it until we can step back and see the lines of the big story before us.We need to decide which meta-narrative is the spine of Scripture. We cannot force a narrative into the text or blindly accept what someone else says the narrative is. This choice determines how we interpret every passage we read. It’s crucial.Alternative Meta-NarrativesEach meta-narrative captures something true. Each also obscures something important.The Personal Salvation Meta-Narrative reads the Bible as fundamentally about getting individual souls into heaven. The Fall happened, humanity is sinful, Jesus died to pay the price, and now if you believe in Him, you go to heaven when you die. Everything is interpreted through this lens: Does this passage help me get to heaven? Does this teach me how to live a better personal life?This captures something real. Personal redemption matters. Your individual relationship with God is genuine and significant. But this lens makes the entire cosmic drama secondary. Why would God care so much about the politics of Persia and Greece if it’s all just about getting souls to heaven? Why would He speak so extensively through the prophets about the rise and fall of empires? Why the genealogies, the territorial conflicts, the prophecies about nations and kingdoms?More troubling: if the whole Gospel is about me—my salvation, my happiness, my eternity—then we’ve just baptized selfishness. We’ve made the central message of Scripture an appeal to the most basic human impulse: self-preservation. If one of the main struggles of the human spirit is selfishness, how can this be the whole Gospel? It seems to continue appealing to “me, me, me—my favorite person, me.” I want to be saved. I don’t want to go to hell. I want to live in heaven and be happy forever.If that’s the whole Gospel, it’s self-centered from beginning to end. For me, that’s the problem with it. The Moral Development Meta-Narrative chronicles humanity’s spiritual evolution. We start primitive and gradually grow more enlightened. The Old Testament is harsh because people were barbaric. God has to deal with them in physical ways because they weren’t spiritually developed. The New Testament is gentler because we’ve evolved morally.This sounds sophisticated. It appeals to our modern sensibilities, especially those raised in the age of Darwin, with the sense that we are the pinnacle of human development.But this denies the transcendent, unchanging nature of God’s own character and His Word. Is the God of the Old Testament not the same God who is the Father of Jesus? The Liberation Theology Meta-Narrative focuses on God’s love and priority for the poor and oppressed. This captures genuine biblical truth. God does care about justice. He does defend the vulnerable poor.But when this becomes the primary lens, it can reduce God’s concern to only the human struggle for fairness in society while ignoring the layers of spiritual corruption that fuel these problems. Staying at the individual, physical level, we can completely miss the eternal scope of God’s purposes. On top of that, this view often reduces Jesus to an example of the suffering good people endure at the hands of the rich and powerful—an activist who pays the price for bringing change.Jesus is much more than this according to Scripture.Why the Cosmic Conflict Meta-Narrative Rings True with me. The Divine Council/Cosmic Conflict Worldview doesn’t dismiss these other readings. It includes genuine elements of personal salvation, moral development, and justice. But it places them all within a larger, cosmic story.It rings true for several reasons.First: It takes Genesis 1 seriously. God creates humanity in His image and gives us dominion over the earth. Not incidentally. As the foundational purpose for human existence. We are meant to be God’s vice-regents, exercising His authority in His world. Every other biblical narrative—the Fall, the Flood, the nations, the covenants, the prophets, Jesus Himself—can only be understood in light of this original commission.Second: It explains the patterns that recur ...
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    30 分
  • Enforcing Christ's Victory: You’re Seated with the King

    Enforcing Christ's Victory: You’re Seated with the King
    2026/08/25
    Hi Friend!Let’s dive into the fourth and final installment in our series on understanding the supernatural worldview of the Bible.For most of human history, we’ve been helpless.We didn’t understand why. We just felt it. The weight of it. The impossibility of it. We tried to push back against forces we couldn’t see, couldn’t name, couldn’t comprehend. And we lost. Over and over, we lost.Ancient people understood this instinctively. They saw humans as devolving from greatness—From living as those unexplainable civilizations whose ruins we still marvel at, whose architectural feats we can’t replicate today. They blamed our downfall as humans on the elohim.They blamed the weight of spiritual powers that ruled over human territories and nations. When Daniel prayed, he encountered resistance from the prince of Persia. That wasn’t metaphor. It was the reality of a spiritual realm that occupied the physical world.We’ve rationalized it away. We’ve convinced ourselves that power operates only through politics and economics and human ambition. But the spiritual reality hasn’t changed. The elohim are still here. Evil is intelligent. The domain authorities still occupy territories. They still rule through the systems we navigate every day.What’s changed is our awareness of them. We’re the first generation that doesn’t see them. We pretend they don’t exist. We look at the coordinated manipulation of government, business, education, military, and arts—and we assign it all to human agents.But according to Scripture, the elohim are real and terrifyingly powerful.The Gospel That Changes EverythingHere’s the gospel that changes that reality: Jesus confronted them. He went to war with them. And He won through his sacrifice on the cross, his resurrection from the dead, and his ascension to the right hand of God.He won as a human. He defeated them by perfect faithfulness, by perfect alignment with God’s character. He lived the only human life perfectly aligned with the heart of the Creator. He did what we were created to do—take dominion over our world as humans made in the image of God.Today, Jesus is seated at the right hand of God, a human, ruling as co-regent with the Creator. He holds all authority in heaven and on earth.Jesus Installed YouAnd then He did something almost incomprehensible. He installed you—yes, you—in your designated seat of authority. He gave you the power to take charge of your little world. Your family. Your workplace. Your creativity. The limitless development of your own mind. The sanctity and strength of your own body.You are no longer helpless.As you exercise that authority aligned with Him, you’re not just fixing your own life. You’re contributing to the march of Jesus across the planet.This is the gospel. Not the small version we’ve reduced it to. The massive, cosmic, everything-changes gospel that doesn’t just get you to heaven—it restores the universe itself.What Seated Actually MeansPaul writes in Ephesians 2:6: “God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”Present tense. Right now. You are seated. With Christ. In the heavenly realms.This isn’t poetry. This isn’t a future promise. This is your current spiritual reality.Think about where Christ is seated. Far above every rule and authority and power and dominion. Above every elohim that ever ruled a nation. Above the powers that occupy government, business, education, the military, and the arts. Above all of them.And you are seated with Him in that same position.This means you have authority. Not because you earned it. Not because you’re special or particularly spiritual. Because you are united with the one who holds all authority. Your authority is derived—it flows from your alignment with Him, your union with Him, your participation in His victory.An ambassador carries the authority of their nation. But only when they act as a representative of that nation, only when they’re aligned with their sovereign’s interests, only when they operate within their commission.You are an ambassador of the Kingdom of God. Seated with the King far above every power. Carrying His authority into every sphere where you have influence.The question is: will you exercise it?Territory and ExpansionDominion is not domination. It is not aggression. It is not greed. It’s stewardship. It’s the wise, faithful exercise of authority to bring order and flourishing to a specific territory or realm. We have power under the authority of the King.You have dominion over your little world. Your family. Your workplace. Your community. The sphere of influence you actually occupy. And the degree to which you exercise that dominion—the degree to which you enforce Christ’s victory in those spaces—determines the expansion of His kingdom right now.This is not passive. This is active. This requires you to show up. To take a stand. To make decisions based on ...
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