133 - "If We Cannot Say New Churches Have Been Started, We Must Weep" - The Defining Reality of a NAMS Companion - May 19th, 2026

Part 7 of the NAMS Rule & Customary Order Series."If We Cannot Say New Churches Have Been Started, We Must Weep" - The Defining Reality of a NAMS CompanionIn episode 133, Jon Shuler returns to the acorn image from the previous week and pushes it further: an acorn planted but not germinating, a Bible study that hasn't multiplied in fifteen years, a movement smaller every year than the year before — these are not signs of faithfulness. They are tragedies. Drawing on a prayer book question from his Anglican childhood — "what is your bounded duty as a member of the church?" — Shuler weaves together the call to follow Christ, worship weekly, and work and pray and give for the spread of the kingdom, and shows how all seven commitments of Article III flow from that single foundation. He also previews the five personal spiritual disciplines every companion is called to live — to be unpacked in the next episode. A searching and clarifying listen for every NAMS companion, Anglican church planter, and Great Commission Christian.