Placed For A Purpose

Ryan Guinee, Family Insight analyst for FamilyLife, joins us to talk about why there has been such a breakdown of trust between neighbors and what we can do to rebuild the trust that has been lost.

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Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church 

Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

The Hopeful Neighborhood: What Happens When Christians Pursue the Common Good 

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In today’s episode we welcome Dr. Heather Holleman to the podcast to talk about her book, The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility. 

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The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility

This Seat’s Saved

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In today’s episode we talk about how Halloween offers us an incredible opportunity to connect with our neighbors and some practical ways to do that. We also address some common sticking points that followers of Jesus might have when they think about engaging with Halloween. 

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Boo your neighbors 

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In 2016, the ministry of Cru hired an outside secular firm to survey people from all different age and race demographics across varying parts of the United States and their findings were fascinating. Eighty-two percent of non-religious people said they would be willing to have a conversation with a Christian believer about their faith if they could do these five things—though they didn’t believe they could....

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Order your copy of Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbor

Read TGC article Ask and You Shall Evangelize

Buy David Augsburger's book, Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard: How to Hear and How to Be Heard in Equal Communication

Watch this 17 minute video that highlights conversations that change lives. In it, Cru City ministry leaders partner with Cyrano Research Strategy to gain valuable conversational insights through research and interviews with those of diverse backgrounds.

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In today's episode, we discuss what it looks like to embrace the ordinariness of neighboring. Recounting Tim Downs' "Parable of the Soil" in his book Finding Common Ground, we explore the difference between only caring about seeing "results" with what it looks like to value the ordinary acts of love in our neighborhoods. This flows into a conversation about the difference between having ultimate versus ulterior motives with our neighbors.

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Order your copy of Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbor

Buy Tim Downs' book, Finding Common Ground: How to Communicate with those Outside the Christian Community...While We Still Can

Read The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations Through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus by Zack Eswine

Grab a copy of To Transform a City: Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City by Eric Swanson and Sam Williams

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Jesus often used agricultural metaphors when talking about matters of the heart and spiritual realities. He often spoke in terms of weeds, good soil, bad soil, and scattered seeds. Some took root and others did not. For Jesus’ original audience these agriculturally focused parables would have more easily understood because of their agrarian economy, but for those of us who don’t have much experience with farming or gardening, it's easy to miss what Jesus is saying...

Today, we discuss what the parable of the mustard seed has to teach us about neighboring. Specifically, we discuss the importance of small steps, time and imagination.

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Order the book, Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbor

Read Elizabeth's prior article, Lessons from a Wanna-Be Gardener

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In this episode, we discuss how our understanding of the word 'hospitality' has shifted away from the Biblical definition as expressed in the Old Testament and in early Christendom. In the words of Inigo Montoya, "I do not think it means what you think it means."

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Order the book, Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbor

Read The Simplest Way to Change the World: Biblical Hospitality as a Way of Life by Brandon Clements and Dustin Willis

Grab a copy of The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door by Jay Pathak and Dave Runyon

Get Henry Nouwen's book, Reaching Out.

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SUMMARY:

In this episode, we begin by discussing the legacy of one of the most iconic neighbors of all time, Fred Rogers. Referencing the 2018 documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" we explore how Mr. Rogers made children feel seen and liked. From there, we further explore the power of neighbors being seen by Jesus himself as demonstrated in Matthew 9.

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Buy the McKinney's book, Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbor

Watch the Netflix documentary on the life of Fred Rogers: Won't You Be My Neighbor

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SUMMARY:

In this episode, we explore the parable of the Good Samaritan, what it means to be a "non-neighbor," and Jesus' response to the question, "Who is my neighbor?"

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Get your copy of Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbor

See Article on Stoneman Douglas School Officer

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In this first episode, we discuss cultural obstacles to neighboring that make us want to leave our neighbors alone. We explore what it means to be a neighbor in God's Story and how this framework helps us move toward our neighbors the way Jesus moved toward us.

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Order your copy of Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbor

Buy Marc J Dunkleman's Book, Vanishing Neighbor

See Pew Research on declining trust among neighbors

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