Ministry on the Move

Celebrating pastors from around the USA, learning what it means to shepherd the body of Christ. Chris interviews pastors as we travel throughout the US, to find out how different and how similar the body of Christ is. For more information on The McNeills, please visit our website at mcneillmusic.tv/podcast

Ministry on the Move is a religion podcast hosted by Chris McNeill, with 114 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Chris McNeill hosts Ministry on the Move, a religion show with 114 episodes published.

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  Episode #38

  S3 E38 - Bruce Bailey - Worship Is a Territorial Act of War

  Sep 28, 20261h 19mS3

  Season three closes with the McNeills back home in East Texas at Pine Hill Baptist Church, where Pastor Bruce Bailey has just led his congregation through its 175th anniversary. Bruce and Chris spend the first half of the conversation tracing the church's history — a settlement, a revival meeting, and nearly two centuries of continuity — before Bruce shares the covenant renewal prayer he wrote and asked his congregation to commit to together. From there the conversation turns into one of the most direct discussions this podcast has had about what's actually behind the decline of corporate worship in the American church, and it doesn't stop there — Bruce and Chris spend real time on spiritual warfare, deliverance ministry, and what it means to take the "weird parts" of Scripture seriously instead of explaining them away. Also referenced: Autopsy of a Deceased Church , a book Bruce has on his shelf and is working through.

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  Episode #37

  S3 E37 - Scott Johnston - Peace Before the Answer

  Sep 21, 20261h 12mS3

  Pastor Scott Johnston has pastored New Life Baptist Church in Wabash, Indiana, for seventeen years, after stops in Michigan, a hard-fought church plant in Kentucky, and nine years back home in Texas. But this conversation centers on August 2020, when a routine doctor's visit for his 20-year-old daughter turned into news no parent is prepared for. Scott is remarkably honest about what came next — including a prayer he prayed more than once that most pastors wouldn't admit to out loud. What follows is a story of a very specific, very detailed list of prayer requests, a surgery that was supposed to take two days, and an outcome that even the leading doctors on a national research study said they'd never seen before. Scott also opens up about how the experience reshaped his view of pride, ministry, and what it actually means to shepherd people through suffering instead of just teaching about it. Also referenced: Max Lucado's In the Grip of Grace , a book Scott returns to again and again, especially its chapter on baptism.

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  S3 E36 - Ross O'Dell p2 - One Bride, Not a Mistress on the Side

  Sep 14, 202648 min

  Part two picks up right where last week left off. Pastor Ross O'Dell finally answers the question Chris has been sitting on for two episodes: does the church replace Israel? Ross's answer runs through the grafting-into-the-vine image, a full walk through the biblical covenants from Adam and Eve to the new covenant in Christ, and a picture of Scripture's whole arc that's less about theological hairsplitting and more about the character of God. From there the conversation turns personal — Ross talks through a reflection on hell and the presence of God that reframes a familiar C.S. Lewis idea, then closes with a wide-ranging speed round: his favorite Bible character, why Monday isn't actually his hardest day, and a question handed down to him from a past guest that he wasn't expecting. Also mentioned: Ross rereads I Love You to the Moon and Back more than any other book outside Scripture, and counts The Mission among his all-time favorite films.

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  Episode #35

  E3 S35 - Ross O'Dell - Blessed Is the One Who Reads

  Sep 7, 20261h 1mS3

  Pastor Ross O'Dell returns to Ministry on the Move for round two, two years after his first appearance, and this time the conversation goes straight into the deep end. Ross is gearing up to preach through the book of Revelation starting in September — a series he expects to take two to three years — and he and Chris spend this episode wrestling with how to approach a book most Christians either fear or oversimplify. Along the way: a linguistic detail buried in Revelation chapter 1 that quietly reframes how you read the whole book, a memorable illustration involving tree trunks and pruning shears, and a story about red heifers imported from Texas that's stranger than fiction. It all builds toward a question Chris has wanted to ask for a long time — one about Israel, the church, and a term most pastors are nervous to even say out loud. Ross starts to answer it right as we run out of time, so this one's a two-parter. Also mentioned: the book I Love You to the Moon and Back , which Ross has been handing out to his congregation for years.

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  Episode #34

  S3 E34 - Jim Pearl p2. Comfortable With Mystery: Communion, Infant Baptism, and a Christianity Not Made in Our Image

  Aug 31, 202643 minS3

  Part 2 picks up on a shared conviction: that the version of Christianity worth chasing isn't one made in our own image — comfortable parts kept, hard parts quietly edited out. From there, the conversation goes places this podcast doesn't often go — into what's actually happening at communion, why Lutherans baptize infants, and why being at peace with mystery might be a mark of mature faith rather than a lack of answers. Chris shares a personal story about his grandmother's funeral that ties it all together in an unexpected way. The speed round is a good time, as always, and the episode closes with a question passed down from a previous guest — one that gets an answer more honest than expected.

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