Jon Thompson With the Three Things That Matter Most in Crisis & a Theology of Spiritual Gifts
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In this episode Jason speaks with Jon Thompson. Their conversation touches on Thompson’s own personal journey with His church and his own unique spirituality, which is a potent blend of reformed theology, expository teaching and a charismatic expression that is gift oriented and embraces all the spiritual disciplines.
Jon recently wrote a book called Convergence and the conversation pivots to discuss the thesis of the book, along with the key ideas therein. Thompson highlights his book’s emphasis on Jesus modelling for us the normal Christian life — an astounding claim that he defends Biblically in his book. This Biblical discovery led to a season in which his church emphasized all the spiritual gifts that God gives for the building up of the church — spiritual gifts and disciplines that Jesus himself practiced. As a result, their conversation does a dive into spiritual gifts and spiritual disciplines and how to implement them in the broader church community.
Jon brings conversation that is theologically rich and profoundly passionate. We hope you enjoy our conversation with him.
Jon Thompson
Jon Thompson serves as the Preaching and Vision Pastor at Sanctus Church in Toronto, Ontario. He has been on staff for more than 20 years. Sanctus is a regional church with a community of over 2,500 people that gather in multiple locations across Durham region. Under Jon’s leadership, Sanctus is characterized by dynamic Biblical teaching, vibrant community groups, compelling media and powerful times in worship. Jon has a Masters of Theological Studies from Tyndale Seminary, Toronto and a Doctorate of Missiology from Fuller Seminary, California. Jon is husband to his wife Joanna and Father to three kids - Hannah, Emma, and Noah.
“In this dangerous and fragile moment, we need vocational leaders who proclaim the Lordship of Jesus and His Word.”
Order Jon’s Book Convergence Today
Convergence shows how Jesus, though always God, deliberately chose to limit His divine attributes and power in order not only to show us who God is, but also to demonstrate for us what the normal Christian life should look like.
Jon Thompson, pastor and theologian, looks at Jesus’ life and ministry asking the question of, “If Jesus chose to limit His divine attributes and power, how did He do all of this?” The answer is spiritual gifts and disciplines. In these pages Jon explores what this means for Christians and the church.
“If you had to master something before you taught on it, you couldn’t teach Scripture.”
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Miles McPherson
Pastor Miles McPherson played four years in the NFL with the San Diego Chargers from 1982-1985. In his second season in the NFL and after a weekend-long drug binge, he called out to Jesus Christ, accepted Him and stopped doing drugs in one day. Miles worked as a Youth Pastor for Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego and enrolled in Azusa Pacific University’s School of Theology receiving his Master’s of Divinity degree in 1991.
In 2000, he felt called by God to start the Rock Church in San Diego. According to Outreach Magazine, the Rock has consistently been one of the nation’s largest churches with over 20,000 people attending one of the Rock’s twenty-one Sunday services or experiencing the services through online streaming, and microsites around San Diego.
Through his most recent book called “The Third Option,” Hope for a Racially Divided Nation.” he desires to bring God’s healing to this issue with a powerful message and practical next steps to begin the conversation with “someone not like you.”