Sunday Rewind

This week concludes our series on Racial Solidarity & Lowertown as Brian is joined by Josh and Paul to answer some questions that have been asked throughout the series, and to highlight the Lowertown Racial Solidarity Discipleship Toolkit.

Question 1 = Why call the series Racial Solidarity and not Racial Reconciliation? (3:38)

Question 2 = What would you hope to see from our congregation to know that we are moving in the right direction with racial solidarity and Lowertown? (17:02)

Question 3 = What are the barriers to speaking on racism from the pulpit on Sundays? (23:47)

Question 4 = How does our doctrine of sin inform our approach to racial solidarity, individually and corporately? (31:51)

Question 5 = Should I feel bad about being white and having privileges, or in this specific context, white privilege? (37:59)

Question 6 = As Christians, how should we think wisely about Critical Race Theory, or other frameworks, through which justice issues might be considered apart from the Gospel lens? (44:09)

Link to the Hope Lowertown Racial Solidarity Discipleship Toolkit (63:35): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hREGjvfj3cxjWrqXOEg0tDjjIwTovGIHdnwhbp7x53I/edit?usp=sharing

If you have any questions or want to dialogue about anything in this episode (or series), feel free to contact Brian, Josh, and/or Paul.

Host: Brian Silver ([email protected])

Guests: Joshua Daramola ([email protected])

Paul Stiver ([email protected])

This week Brian is joined by Josh and Paul to walk through the parable of the Good Samaritan. They read through the passage, discuss the different lenses we use to interpret story, identify Jesus as the true Good Samaritan (as well as the implications of this reality), and more.

If you have any questions or want to dialogue about anything in this episode, feel free to contact Brian, Josh, and/or Paul.

Host: Brian Silver ([email protected])

Guests: Joshua Daramola ([email protected])

Paul Stiver ([email protected])

This week Brian is joined by Joshua Daramola and Paul Stiver to wrap up their conversation of Jemar Tisby's ARC model. They revisit points from each of the past four episodes, as well as dig deeper on topics that help us gain a better understanding of how to move toward racial solidarity.

If you have any questions or want to dialogue about anything in this episode, feel free to contact Brian, Josh, and/or Paul.

Host: Brian Silver ([email protected])

Guests: Joshua Daramola ([email protected])

Paul Stiver ([email protected])

This week Brian is joined again by Joshua Daramola and Paul Stiver to continue the discussion on Racial Solidarity & Lowertown, highlighting Commitment (the "C" of Jemar Tisby's ARC concept).

They define commitment and why it is important as it pertains to racial solidarity, explore what biblical commitment looks like, suggest different ways for us to be committed on an individual and corporate level, and more.

If you have any questions or want to discuss anything from this episode further, please don't hesitate to contact any or all of Brian, Josh, and Paul. Their emails are below:

Brian Silver - [email protected]

Joshua Daramola - [email protected]

Paul Stiver - [email protected]

This week Brian is joined again by Joshua Daramola and Paul Stiver to continue the discussion on Racial Solidarity & Lowertown, highlighting Relationships (the "R" of Jemar Tisby's ARC concept). They talk through how developing relationships is the natural transition point that follows building awareness (as relationships become personal, meaningful and relevant to those involved), how to develop relationships well through sharing in each other's stories, and more.

Have questions or want to dialogue about anything in this episode? Feel free to email Brian at [email protected].

This week Brian is joined again by Joshua Daramola and Paul Stiver to continue the discussion on Racial Solidarity & Lowertown, highlighting Awareness (the "A" of Jemar Tisby's ARC concept). They discuss why an accurate and informed knowledge of our history is critical to the conversation on racial solidarity, how we are able to gain awareness, why we should care, and more.

Have questions or want to dialogue about anything in this episode? Feel free to email Brian at [email protected].

This week kicks off our series on Racial Solidarity and Lowertown. Brian is joined by HCC-Lowertown elders Joshua Daramola and Paul Stiver to properly contextualize issues on race, using their own experiences, history, and the Bible to move toward racial solidarity. This is the first of multiple conversations to take place, providing a framework for what racial solidarity is, why it is so essential to understand, and how we can grow in our understanding of it through Awareness, Relationships, and Commitment (ARC concept via Jemar Tisby's book "The Color of Compromise").

Have questions or want to dialogue about anything in this episode? Feel free to email Brian at [email protected].

As the first section of our doctrine topics comes to a close, Brian wants to take this opportunity to field any questions you may have up until this point in the material. Feel free to email any questions you may have to [email protected], and he will answer as many of them as he can in the next podcast. Thank you, as always, for listening to Sunday Rewind!

This week Brian looks at God's Will. What is the difference between God's providential will and His moral (or revealed) will? What types of imagery can we use to conceptualize these wills? How do we determine if something is part of God's will for our lives? Brian is then joined once again by HCC - Lowertown worship leader Andrew Blaufuss to question if there is only one will for our lives and determine if using the phrase, "It is God's will that we..." has any merit in telling people why they should do something (29:34).

This week Brian continues looking at Creation. What can we learn from Genesis 1 and 2 about the origin of life? How does the ancient text of the Bible align with modern science? Are faith and science mutually exclusive? Brian is then joined by HCC - Lowertown attendee Matt O'Connell to touch on historical views of creation in the church, examine if there are other areas in the Bible that help us understand creation better, and question if we should read Scripture's account of creation literally (27:35).