{"podcast":{"title":"Grace in the Grind: Biblical Faith for Everyday Life","slug":"grace-in-the-grind-7570221","podcast_index_feed_id":7570221,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/grace-in-the-grind-pod1/feed.xml","website_url":"https://arrowandrootscoffeeco.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/grace-in-the-grind-pod1/podcast_cover_20260712_110708_2d2e2e83817c761fcf7fa4d384de763e.png","author":"Cody Hudson","episode_count":77,"summary":"Does the way we’re living actually match what Scripture says? Grace in the Grind: Biblical Faith for Everyday Life is a conversation built over a cup — sometimes a whole pot — of coffee. We take serious biblical truth and bring it into the places where faith actually gets lived: work, marriage, family, church, success, disappointment, suffering, calling, relationships, and all the ordinary stuff that has a way of getting complicated fast. Through honest stories, biblical teaching, real conversation, and the occasional caffeinated detour, Cody keeps coming back to that same question — not to stir up outrage, but to help us examine what we believe, how we live, and where we may have confused what is familiar with what is biblical. That means questioning assumptions. Challenging familiar patterns. Admitting when something we’ve called normal may not actually line up with Scripture. Grace in the Grind is about letting Scripture correct us, letting grace meet us where we’ve failed, and learning to follow Christ more faithfully in the middle of real life. Each twelve-episode season is a “Pot,” with each episode serving as a “Cup.” Shorter Extra Shot episodes dig deeper into the theology…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T00:19:15.499326+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-in-the-grind-7570221"},"episode":{"title":"When Church Growth Outpaces Shepherding","slug":"when-church-growth-outpaces-shepherding","published_at":"2026-08-19T06:30:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-in-the-grind-7570221/when-church-growth-outpaces-shepherding","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-in-the-grind-7570221","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/grace-in-the-grind-pod1/3078724","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/354257/3078724/grace-in-the-grind-pod1/2026_08_19_04_24_29_16019361-2b1b-4083-9692-2fc723286d7b.mp3","summary":"What happens when a church grows faster than its ability to know and shepherd the people God is adding? Church growth is a good thing. Acts repeatedly celebrates people coming to Christ and being added to the Church. But growth can expose weaknesses in how people are known, cared for, discipled, and protected. In Pot 3, Cup 5 of Grace in the Grind, Cody Hudson examines biblical shepherding through 1 Peter 5, Acts 20, Hebrews 13, and Acts 6. Scripture calls church leaders shepherds for a reason. A shepherd does more than count sheep. A church may know attendance, familiar faces, giving, and who serves where while still missing that someone’s marriage is collapsing, faith is weakening, grief is isolating them, or sin is taking root. You can count a flock without knowing a flock. This episode explores: • What biblical shepherding requires • Why knowing a name is not the same as knowing a condition • What it means for elders to shepherd the flock “among” them • Why pastors cannot know everything about everyone • The responsibility members have to be known • How growth challenges pastoral care • What Acts 6 teaches when people are overlooked • Why large churches are not automatically unhealthy • Why small churches are not automatically healthy This is not an argument for a biblical maximum church size. Scripture gives us no such number. It is also not an accusation against pastors faithfully serving growing congregations. The deeper question is: Whatever size our congregation becomes, can we still obey what Scripture says about caring for Christ’s people? Acts 6 gives us an important picture. The number of disciples was increasing—a good thing—but vulnerable people began falling through the cracks. The apostles did not condemn the growth. They also did not excuse the neglec…","meta_description":"What happens when a church grows faster than its ability to know and shepherd the people God is adding? Church growth is a good thing. Acts repeatedly cel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2161,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grace-in-the-grind-7570221/episodes/when-church-growth-outpaces-shepherding/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-in-the-grind-7570221/when-church-growth-outpaces-shepherding.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}