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Conversations for pastors and leaders across the Metro District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Practical encouragement, honest dialogue, and Spirit-led wisdom for those doing the everyday work of ministry — leading churches, shepherding people, and pursuing kingdom impact in the multi-ethnic, multicultural communities we're called to serve.

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October 1, 2026Episode 99 min

Blueprint for Revival | Our Father: Approaching God as Family, Not Business

Jesus doesn't teach us to pray to a king, a judge, or even a friend. He teaches us to pray to a Father. In the final episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket unpacks that one word — Father — and how it changes everything about how we approach God. Mike draws out the difference between two ways of living in the same house: a tenant, whose place rests on a contract and whose currency is performance, and a child, whose place rests on relationship and whose currency is belonging. He shows how this reshapes not just what we can ask God for, but why we'd ever expect to be heard — because a child doesn't have to convince a Father who already knows and already loves. Mike closes with Corrie ten Boom's story of trusting her own father even amid the fear of Nazi-occupied Holland, and a simple, personal challenge: are you praying like a tenant tracking your performance, or a child who already belongs? Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

September 25, 2026Episode 88 min

Blueprint for Revival | Social Compassion

A lawyer asks Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" — not looking for information, but for a boundary, a place where love can stop. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket walks through the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) and shows why social compassion isn't optional for a Spirit-filled church — it's the fruit that proves the tree is alive. Mike unpacks how Jesus deliberately flips the lawyer's whole framework, putting the despised outsider in the position of power and the religious insider in the position of powerlessness. He traces this same call through Matthew 25's sheep and goats and James's blunt warning that faith without works is dead — not as a way to earn favor with God, but as visible evidence of a justification that's already complete in Christ. The episode closes with a simple, personal story: Mike's five-year-old son giving away his entire allowance to a homeless man in Costa Rica, understanding something many adults miss — "that's all right, Daddy. You have more." Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

September 17, 2026Episode 79 min

Blueprint for Revival | Revival Worship

You were built with what Mike Plunket calls an "adoration apparatus" — you were made to worship. The only real question is what you'll worship. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike turns to Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4) to answer three questions: what is worship, how do we worship, and what does worship require of us? Mike shows that worship, at its root, is "worth-ship" — recognizing something's worth and responding to it, the way a new mother responds to her newborn without being taught how. He offers a simple diagnostic: what makes time disappear, what you worry about most, and where your money goes when things compete for it all reveal what you actually worship, whether or not it's what you'd say you worship. The heart of the episode is Jesus' call to worship "in spirit and truth" — what Mike calls order and ardor, structure and fire held together. He closes with a question Jesus put to a woman who came to a well expecting judgment: what obstacles are we putting up, when God wants so much to give us Himself? Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

September 10, 2026Episode 68 min

Blueprint for Revival | Gospel Community

Three thousand people baptized in one day. That's not a strategy — that's a visitation. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket sits with a question most of us skip when we read Acts 2: not "how do we admire this?" but "what would it look like if this happened to us?" Mike shows that revival isn't better programs or getting the culture right — it's the Holy Spirit making Jesus real, not theoretical, to a people and through them to a watching world. Drawing on Tim Keller's "five vitamins" for a living church (teaching, koinonia, worship, evangelism, and social concern), he makes a sobering point: a church can have all five and still be dead without the Spirit's presence animating them together. The episode lands on a single foundation underneath everything else — a righteousness not our own. Mike draws on Richard Lovelace's observation that most professing Christians, even with sound theology, quietly shift the weight of their acceptance with God onto their own performance instead of resting entirely on Christ's finished work. Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

September 3, 2026Episode 510 min

Blueprint for Revival | Jesus Plus Nothing

We read Acts 2 and think: I want that. Three thousand people saved in a day. A community so marked by love they sold what they had so no one would go without. But in this episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket asks the question we usually skip past: how did it happen? Mike traces a pattern that shows up throughout church history — crisis, desperate seeking after God, and only then, visitation. Applied to a crisis like racial injustice, he argues the church can't program, manage, or apologize its way to the "no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free" unity Scripture describes. The only well the Spirit fills is one kept clean of "rubbish" — the quiet, unconscious belief that we produce our own salvation through effort, record, or respectability. Using the transformation of Saul into Paul, Mike shows how the gospel of "Jesus plus nothing" doesn't just change what someone believes — it dismantles both self-righteous contempt and fear at their shared root, because both are fed by the same lie: that we have to earn our worth. Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

August 27, 2026Episode 415 min

Blueprint for Revival | No Longer Unremarkable People

Why did God ask Israel to stack up twelve ordinary stones the moment they crossed the Jordan on dry ground? In this episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket looks at Joshua 4 and a truth Scripture keeps circling back to: we forget. Give it one generation and the miraculous becomes a memory. Give it three, and it's gone. Mike traces how this forgetfulness is really a symptom of something deeper — a heart that's drifted from its center in God — and how even our Bible reading can quietly become self-focused instead of an encounter with who God actually is. He points to the Northampton revival of 1735 and Martyn Lloyd-Jones's later warning that fear, control, and a discomfort with anything "messy" can talk us out of ever experiencing the Spirit's work at all. Mike closes with a personal story from 2009 — a near-fatal bout of malaria in Uganda that became one of his own "twelve stones" — and a challenge: what is your Jordan, the place where God already parted the waters, that you've quietly let yourself forget? Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

August 20, 2026Episode 39 min

Blueprint for Revival | God's Blueprint: Real Community

Every survey ever done on why people come back to a church after their first visit says the same thing: they felt loved. Not impressed. Not entertained. Loved. In this episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket shows why that isn't a marketing strategy — it's part of God's blueprint, drawn up long before we got here. Walking through Acts 2:42-47, Mike unpacks what real koinonia (fellowship) looks like: unity that isn't uniformity, gifts that fit together like stones cut and shaped at the quarry before ever reaching the temple, and a love that makes the first move toward repentance and forgiveness rather than waiting for the other person to go first. The question isn't whether a church has fellowship — it's how deep people are willing to go with one another. This episode closes with a simple, personal question: who is God asking you to move toward this week? Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

August 13, 2026Episode 28 min

Blueprint for Revival | The Source of Renewal: God's Blueprint for Renewal

What's the one thing you can't live without? In this episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket looks at the life of Isaac — a man who lost everything but his need for water — to ask what's truly essential in our own lives. Drawing from Genesis 26 and Paul's declaration "for me to live is Christ," Mike unpacks why renewal doesn't usually come from finding something new, but from digging again into wells God's people have already found life in before: the gospel, prayer, dependence on the Holy Spirit, and genuine community. He traces this pattern from Isaac's wells to the outpouring at Pentecost, showing how God brings unity without erasing the beautiful diversity He created. Every well runs the risk of getting clogged — not because the source dried up, but because fear, pride, or complacency filled it back in. This episode asks: which well does God want you to reopen? Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

August 11, 2026Episode 19 min

Blueprint for Revival | God's Blueprint: Resistance, Renewal, and Resilience

What if the confusion, division, and anxiety we see around us today isn't a surprise to God — but part of a pattern He's always worked within? In this opening episode of Blueprint for Revival , Mike Plunket unpacks three words that define our calling in this cultural moment: Resistance, Renewal, and Resilience. Drawing from Ephesians 1 and the story of the desperate father in Mark 9, Mike explores why so many people today aren't simply indifferent to the gospel — they're spiritually resistant, having been "inoculated" by a watered-down version of Christianity that leaves them thinking they've already rejected the real thing. He makes the case that the answer isn't better programs or more effort, but a return to genuine dependence on God. Mike closes with seven practical responses to prepare your own heart for renewal — from deepening your prayer life to watching for divine appointments — reminding us that God's blueprint for His Church hasn't changed, and He's still writing this story. Blueprint for Revival is a weekly teaching series from Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance. Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.

March 17, 2026Episode 736 min

Collective Leadership | Expanding the Gospel Footprint: Becoming a Church Planting District

In this episode of the Collective Leadership Podcast, Metro District Interim Superintendent Omar Niebles sits down with Reverend Brian McMillan — Lead Pastor of CenterPoint Church in Massapequa, NY, and Metro District Director of Church Planting — for a rich conversation about the future of church planting in the Metro District and beyond. Brian shares the story of planting CenterPoint in 2002 with just 25 people, no money, and nothing but faith — and what that journey taught him about reaching the unchurched. He breaks down the three biggest obstacles church planters face today (finances, launch teams, and facilities), and casts a compelling vision for what it would look like for the Metro District to move from simply planting churches to becoming a church planting district — where Kingdom expansion is woven into the DNA of every congregation. Whether you've never planted a church or you've been doing it for decades, this episode will challenge and inspire you to ask: How can my church play a part in something bigger? Metro District Podcast is the voice of the Metro District, Christian and Missionary Alliance — resourcing and connecting churches across NY, NJ, and PA. This episode is part of Blueprint for Revival , a weekly teaching series with Mike Plunket. 🌐 Learn more: https://metrocma.org 📧 Contact: office@metrocma.org 📍 2 Denman Ave, Clark, NJ 07066 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metro_cma/ 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metrodistrictcma Subscribe so you don't miss an episode — and if this encouraged you, share it with someone who needs it.