In this episode, Britton sits down with Taylor, a pastor, pilot, and lavender farmer from the Iowa City area, who shares his unlikely journey to becoming a church planter. Taylor opens up about a decade of trying every program, model, and strategy imaginable to reach one of the least churched communities in Iowa, only to conclude that the Sunday morning system itself is fundamentally unable to produce sold-out disciples of Jesus. With their school venue cutting them off and building costs proving prohibitive, Taylor and his church are one month away from transitioning their congregation into house churches led by co-leaders, embracing a model built on shared ownership, mutual discipleship, and dependence on the Holy Spirit rather than pastoral performance. Recorded right in the middle of the transition, this conversation is a rare and honest look at what it actually feels like to be in the thick of radical church change — the freedom, the shame, the uncertainty, and the deep conviction that Jesus is worth the risk.
