Becoming a Future Ready Church w/ Daniel Yang

(Episode 82) Acts 16 is usually read as a travel log — Paul crossing into Macedonia, planting a church at Philippi. Missiologist Daniel Yang reads it as the record of an impossible coalition: a businesswoman, a trafficked girl, a Roman jailer, held together by nothing the ancient world would recognize as common ground. John Houmes and Yang trace that same tension into the present: the homogeneous unit principle and its costs, what the pandemic exposed about the American church's capacity to hold disagreement, and Yang's discipline of asking whether his convictions are formed by scripture or borrowed from a movement. The conversation closes on trauma as mission field — the body as a spiritual vehicle, and where the therapeutic and the theological pull apart. **Key Quotes** "*Good theology, if it's truly good, will certainly end up doing good."* **Resources Mentioned** *Becoming a Future-Ready Church* — Daniel Yang, Adelle M. Banks, Warren Bird (Zondervan, 2024) · Yang's forthcoming book on the church and displacement (World Relief / InterVarsity Press, expected spring 2027) · *Divided by Faith* — Michael Emerson & Christian Smith · *Understanding Church Growth* — Donald McGavran · *The Anxious Generation* — Jonathan Haidt · *Resisting Therapy Culture* — Matthew Loftus · Diane Langberg (trauma/mission field) · Tim Keller, Matt Chandler (Acts 16 commentary) · Barry Henning (reconciliation/justice quote) · Greg Perry (previous guest) · Pastor Serve · Spanish River Church counseling center · Pew Research, 2013/2025 Religious Landscape studies (58% of U.S. immigrants are Christian) **Keywords** — future-ready church, oikos, homogeneous unit principle, Jerusalem to Antioch, embodied gospel, trauma-informed ministry, World Relief, Churches of Welcome, meaning crisis **Tags**: Daniel Yang, Post Everything, John Houmes, Becoming a Future-Ready Church, Acts 16, World Relief, Church Diversity, Christian Nationalism, Immigration and Faith, Tim Keller **Chapters** 00:00 🎙️ Cold Open 01:06 📖 Meet Daniel Yang 02:33 ⛪ Acts 16's Unlikely Cast 06:48 🏠 Oikos, Not Synagogue 10:15 🎯 The Homogeneous Unit Principle 14:27 💜 Inside a Purple Church 16:49 🔥 Antioch Was Born From Conflict 18:05 👪 Salvation Isn't Just Individual 20:31 🐺 When the Tribe Eats the Church 23:14 🪞 Am I Proof-Texting My Politics? 26:34 🛂 Immigration Justice Under ICE 29:16 🌍 A Vision for the Nations 34:17 🍇 Communion in a Divided City 35:52 🧭 Jerusalem to Antioch 38:54 🤝 Partnering With Minority Churches 46:50 ⚖️ Reconciliation Without Justice 49:10 🌾 McGavran and the Masses 51:48 🧠 Trauma as Mission Field 58:26 💎 Glory Outweighs the Trauma 1:02:03 📜 Psalms and a Breaking Point 1:07:14 📗 A Borderless Church, Coming 2027 1:08:14 🎬 Solo Reflection Begins 1:10:40 🕊️ Mothered in Jerusalem, Modeled in Antioch 1:15:28 🫂 A Word for Burned-Out Pastors 1:17:54 👋 Outro