The Oikos Principle is simple: God has placed 8 to 15 people on the front row of your life. They’re your mission field.
But knowing the principle and leading a church with it are two different things.
Oikos Stories is a podcast for pastors and church leaders who want to hear some of the stories born from ministries when the Oikos Principle takes root. Each episode features a conversation with a church leader who has wrestled with it, implemented it, and watched it change the way their people see the world around them.
Don’t mistake the Oikos Principle for a church growth strategy. These conversations are about equipping pastors to help their people recognize the relationships God has already given them so they can do something about it.
Learn more about the Oikos Principle at oikosmovement.com.
Most of us have felt the overwhelming pressure to do more in ministry. To reach further. To grow faster. To change the entire world through every sermon or social post. But what if that's the wrong assignment? In this episode of Oikos Stories, host Matt Curtis shares his own story of seeing potential in emerging technology to grow quickly, but finding that the Oikos Principle consistently outlasted every shiny new tool. Beyond working well in a church, the Oikos Principle gives people a missi...
20 Aug 2026
Relief for Weary Pastors with Pastor Jerry Joplin
After 25 years of pastoring, Jerry Joplin had tried just about every evangelism program there was. Each one would launch with momentum, then slowly fade out over time. And every time it did, the burden of evangelism was back on Jerry to figure out what to do next. Then he read about the Oikos Principle. And in the front cover of his copy of 8 to 15, he wrote a single word: Relief. In this episode of Oikos Stories, Jerry Joplin, a longtime pastor and former director of the Lubbock Area Bapti...
21 Jul 2026
The Durable Church with Luke Chow
What happens to a church when the Sunday gathering disappears? During COVID, many churches found out the hard way. When the building closed, everything built around the Sunday experience closed with it. But for Luke Chow, a high school minister at High Desert Church's Apple Valley campus through that season, losing the large gathering revealed something powerful about the Oikos Principle. In this episode of Oikos Stories, Luke shares how implementing the Oikos Principle during the pande...
17 Jun 2026
The Great Unifier with Matt Thistle
Every church is naturally divided, but Scripture calls us to be unified. In this episode of Oikos Stories, Matt Thistle explains why he calls the Oikos Principle "the great unifier.” Part of the power of the Oikos Principle is that it doesn’t require decades of experience or high levels of theological training. Instead, the Oikos Principle helps you see the relationships around you as God does. It’s that simplicity that closes the gap between the 30-year veteran of faith and the believ...
18 May 2026
From Ordinary to on Mission with Pastor Bill Staffieri
Pastor Bill Staffieri had heard it all before. Student impact lists. Evangelism strategies. Another approach to getting more people in the room. When he first encountered the Oikos principle, his honest reaction was: I've been here, done that. So why did he drive two hours back for a second training? In this episode of Oikos Stories, Bill, Senior Pastor of Beach Point Church in Fountain Valley, California, shares what changed the second time he heard the Oikos principle, and what happened whe...
18 May 2026
A Principle, Not a Formula with Pastor Tim Kuhl
Pastor Tim Kuhl has been living and leading with the Oikos Principle for over 20 years. His biggest concern isn't whether it works... it's whether churches will turn it into a checklist. In this episode of Oikos Stories, Tim shares how he first encountered Oikos as a youth pastor, why it immediately resonated with his relational approach to ministry, and what he's learned after two decades of implementing it at Hill Country Bible Church in Austin, Texas. If you've heard about the Oikos prin...
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