• #109. Welcoming and Loving the Stranger

  • Sep 10 2024
  • Length: 25 mins
  • Podcast

#109. Welcoming and Loving the Stranger

  • Summary

  • Dr. Mark Glanville discusses how churches can love the stranger because Yahweh loves the stranger so you are to love the stranger.

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

    WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
    • Yahweh loves the stranger so you are to love the stranger
    • Challenging the fear-based ethic approaches to refugees
    • Banal, Sterile Life vs A Rich Feast

    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.

    SCRIPTURE RELATED TO EPISODE:
    • Deuteronomy 10 : 18-19 - Love the stranger

    RELATED LINKS:
    • Dr. Mark Glanville's website

    TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:

    02:02 - Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

    02:46 - Christians need to be different

    03:12 - Book looks deeply into the questions and pushback of welcoming refugees

    04:15 - Deuteronomy 10 : 18-19 Biblical scholarship on love the stranger

    04:40 - Yahweh loves the stranger so you are to love the stranger

    05:17 - Welcoming a stranger is very common in Old Testament ethics

    06:10 - Mirroring the love and character of God

    06:16 - Hebrew word for love = steadfast covenant loyalty

    07:53 - Challenging the fear-based ethic approaches to refugees

    08:16 - ...Preaching the scriptures very clearly

    08:35 - ......not prooftexting, but displaying the gospel in our local neighborhood

    09:07 - ......recovering every aspect of what it means to flourish

    09:33 - ......the whole biblical story and playing our part faithfully

    09:45 - ......choosing love & tenderness

    09:58 - ...Proximity

    10:02 - ......having real life experience with people who have a refugee story

    10:20 - ......dispelling false fears

    10:45 - ......not just the resilience, but the brilliance, of regufees

    11:28 - .....live life in diversity and sharing lives

    11:50 - ......partner with Christian refugee-welcoming organization

    13:20 - Engaging the community in New York over food

    14:25 - Banal, Sterile Life vs A Rich Feast

    16:02 - ...as contrasted in a musical example of "Jesus Loves Me"

    18:30 - the body of Christ exercising all their gifts

    19:36 - Amazing Grace

    21:46 - To get in touch with Dr. Glanville: glanville.org

    22:33 - This is the Day the Lord Has Made

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