Restoring Our City

Candid Conversations on Today’s Topics, that Connect our Community. Check us out at RestoringOurCity.com

Restoring Our City is a religion podcast hosted by RestoringOurCity, with 94 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

RestoringOurCity hosts Restoring Our City, a religion show with 94 episodes published.

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  Restoring Our City

  Keeping it 100

  Sep 30, 202643 min

  One hundred episodes. Jobbin and Jeswin celebrate by ranking their top five brown church experiences: the back row communion strategy, a baptism procession that took longer than the walk, Santa Claus at a Delhi mission service, youth meeting trophies that look like fishing awards, and the cottage meeting goodbye that lasts an hour. Then they tell the story they have never fully told on the pod: how a church conflict, a 40 day fast, and a Thursday night prayer group in Chicago became Restoring Our City. Plus how Jeswin went from campus ministry to cohost, why this podcast should never replace your local church, and a prayer for the next hundred from Philippians 1:9‑11. Share your church core memory with us on Instagram @restoringourcity.

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  Episode #99

  Pass the Plate

  Aug 19, 202642 min

  Church fundraising sits in a strange place. Everyone knows the money has to come from somewhere, and everyone has a story about the ask that felt wrong. Locked doors, platinum sponsor tiers, songbook ads, plaques on the wall. Jobbin and Jeswin work through the tactics, the Google review that keeps showing up under every church, and what 1 Chronicles 29 and Haggai 1 actually say about how leaders should ask and why people should give. Follow @restoringourcity for more.

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  Episode #98

  The General Body Problem

  Jul 29, 202640 min

  Every year it comes back around. The general body meeting. The nominations, the bylaws, the budget nobody agrees on, and somehow the mango pickle that ends up on someone's head. Jobbin and Jeswin sit with the meeting our community loves to dread, and the church splits, lost friendships, and quiet exits that follow it. They trace where the conflict really comes from, what Scripture actually models for resolving it, and why peace was never meant to be the absence of conflict but the presence of flourishing. If you have ever thought about walking away, start here.

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  Restoring Our City

  The Conference High

  Jul 15, 202640 min

  Massive budgets. Packed ballrooms. A spiritual high that fades by Monday morning. Are church conferences actually worth it?Jeswin is back on the pod after a brief break, fresh off PCNAK in Chicago, and he and Jobbin get honest about what these gatherings actually give us. The community. The shared culture. The anonymous questions that revealed what our people are really wrestling with. And what they get wrong too: the budgets, the politics, and the "conference high" that disappears the second real life sets back in.They also bring it back to Scripture, from Peter wanting to build tents on the mount of transfiguration, to Jonah sulking on his own mountain, landing on one real question: how do you carry a mountaintop moment into your actual daily walk with God?Whether you have been to a dozen conferences or none at all, this one will change how you show up to the next one.

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  Restoring Our City

  Church Cliques Uncovered

  May 20, 202626 minS7

  You can have the best worship team in the city, a packed house every Sunday, and a pastor who preaches straight fire. And people will still leave because nobody learned their name. In the final episode of the Church Complaint Box series, Jobbin gets honest about the complaint that hits the deepest: the lack of love. Not theological error. Not bad production. Just a church full of people who never made room for you. Anchoring in 1 Corinthians 13, Jobbin unpacks why Paul wrote this passage as a confrontation to a spiritually active but relationally broken church, and why it lands the same way today. He also gets into church cliques, platform politics, "church royalty," and what it actually looks like to be a connector instead of a complainer.

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