{"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":"Who Decides the Church’s Mission? | Extra Shot","slug":"who-decides-the-church-s-mission-extra-shot","published_at":"2026-09-18T14:57:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-in-the-grind-7570221/who-decides-the-church-s-mission-extra-shot","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-in-the-grind-7570221","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/grace-in-the-grind-pod1/3161817","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/354257/3161817/grace-in-the-grind-pod1/2026_09_17_13_51_49_d5fdadf6-0ca9-4c53-9a2f-1a6d973de226.mp3","summary":"Who decides what the mission of the Church actually is? In this Extra Shot of Grace in the Grind, Cody Hudson examines the missio Dei —the mission of God—and why the Church does not get to invent, redefine, or reduce the mission Christ has already given His people. Churches write mission statements. They build ministries. They develop strategies. Those things can be useful. But the mission did not begin with us. It began with God. The Father sends the Son. The Spirit empowers Christ’s people. And the risen Christ sends His Church into the world to bear witness, proclaim the gospel, make disciples, baptize them, teach them to obey Christ, and form them into the life of His Church. This episode explores: • What missio Dei means • Why the Church receives rather than invents its mission • What Jesus actually commanded in the Great Commission • Why “everything is mission” can make mission meaningless • Why kindness and good works cannot replace gospel proclamation • How evangelism, baptism, discipleship, and the local church fit together • Why pastors and missionaries are not the only Christians called to ministry • How Ephesians 4 challenges professionalized Christianity • Why multiplication begins with ordinary disciple-making • How gathering and scattering work together Christian kindness matters. Mercy matters. Hospitality matters. Serving our neighbors matters. But being pleasant is not the Great Commission. Jesus did not simply send His people into the world to do generally good things. He told us to make disciples. That means proclaiming Christ, calling people to repent and believe, baptizing believers, teaching them to follow Jesus, gathering them into the life of the Church, and equipping mature disciples to do the same for others. The Church does have a mission. B…","meta_description":"Who decides what the mission of the Church actually is? In this Extra Shot of Grace in the Grind, Cody Hudson examines the missio Dei —the mission of God—…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":861,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grace-in-the-grind-7570221/episodes/who-decides-the-church-s-mission-extra-shot/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/who-decides-the-church-s-mission-extra-shot.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}