• #108. Improvising Church: Love, Beauty, Art, Music

  • Aug 27 2024
  • Length: 35 mins
  • Podcast

#108. Improvising Church: Love, Beauty, Art, Music

  • Summary

  • Dr. Mark Glanville discusses how churches can adapt to and impact their own neighborhoods in a post-Christian world.

    • Book: Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul
    • Book: Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

    WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
    • Christian vs Post-Christian Culture
    • Four Key Questions of Scripture
    • Beauty is a Glimpse of God

    ABOUT THE GUEST:

    Dr. Mark Glanville trains pastors at Regent College, Vancouver, and is an Old Testament scholar.

    Prior to coming to Regent, Mark pastored for 14 years in both Vancouver and Australia in urban, justice seeking churches.

    Mark has been bi-vocational-- combining reflective pastoring with biblical scholarship and is a trained jazz pianist, active on the Vancouver jazz scene.

    RELATED LINKS:
    • Dr. Mark Glanville at Regent College

    TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:

    00:38 - Introducing Dr. Mark Glanville

    03:19 - Mark's background and his approach to doing church

    03:30 - 4-note chord: pastoring, scholarship, teaching, jazz music

    04:13 - Exited seminary to a government housing area in western Sydney, Australia

    04:33 - High crime, high poverty, high community

    05:12 - Then to Vancouver, very post-Christian city

    06:31 - Impoverished cities

    06:50 - Impoverished, underprivileged areas are higher in community

    07:31 - See Christ in the faces of those who are marginalized

    07:45 - Deuteronomy 24 - God hears the prayers of the marginalized people

    09:12 - Definition of a Christian culture

    09:52 - Definition of post-Christian culture

    10:30 - Should the church fight post-Christian culture or go deep into our identity as Christians and mirror Christ?

    11:02 - We are authorized to embody Christ's tenderness and love

    11:37 - Book: Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul

    12:15 - Be aware of the things we do as a church that are culturally Christian and discerning what is the Spirit forming us to do

    12:57 - How can we be a church that is genuinely local?

    13:31 - Beauty is a part of witnessing Christ

    14:29 - Phrase: Incarnational communities

    14:55 - Church: a people that is receiving and extending the healing of Jesus

    15:23 - Incarnational Communities as a Sentence: An incarnational community is full of the Spirit, shaped by Scripture, and seeking to embody the love of Jesus and receive and display it in a particular neighborhood.

    15:47 - Incarnational Communities as an Image: Incarnational church seen as blues musicians

    18:17 - Unpacking four key questions of Scripture...

    18:55 - ...Biblical story

    19:14 - ...gospel

    19:53 - ...witness

    20:21 - ...Biblical ethics

    20:57 - The need for churches to truly belong to their neighborhoods

    21:14 - Scripture is related to place

    22:02 - Reconceive "witness" as loving a place in the name of Jesus

    22:50 - ...photos of loved places in the neighborhood

    24:49 - ...prayer for revival

    30:11 - Churches should give their attention to beauty, aesthetics, and the

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