Q/A on the Bridges of Meaning Discord June 19 2020 I do these Q/A sessions on the Bridges of Meaning Discord server most Friday mornings at 10am PDT. https://discord.gg/jdVk8XU 0:00 Beginning in case I can't make it to today's session, I have a short question with a long preamble that I hope you can address for me: I really appreciated your monologue video from yesterday on racism. My church is currently working through a small group study based on a book curriculum written by a pastor and a church...
Q/A on the Bridges of Meaning Discord June 19 2020 I do these Q/A sessions on the Bridges of Meaning Discord server most Friday mornings at 10am PDT. https://discord.gg/jdVk8XU 0:00 Beginning in case I can't make it to today's session, I have a short question with a long preamble that I hope you can address for me: I really appreciated your monologue video from yesterday on racism. My church is currently working through a small group study based on a book curriculum written by a pastor and a church planter in the Wesleyan Church called Multiethnic Conversations The intent is to shift our local church into one that engages in actively transforming into a more multiethnic church. I detect a tension in myself that I don't fully understand - perhaps it means I'm racist, or maybe I'm a contrarian, or maybe both (and more), but there is something in me that says, "I'm fine with our church being multiethnic if that's who ends up showing up and becoming a part of the church and finding meaning and life here - it's great if that happens. But to intentionally say, 'We don't look multi-ethnic enough, and the multiethnic church is Biblical and right, and we are lacking, so we need to intentionally do things to change that,' feels off to me in some way. I think I have a concern that making multiethicity A focus of the church could shift into becoming THE focus of the church. And the potential prospect of making it the top of the hierarchy troubles me. All that said, my actual question is, in your view what was/is the Christian impetus for intentionally making your local church a multiethnic one like the one your dad started and you grew up in, and is there anything non-Christian about a church that isn't intentionally pushing itself to be more ethnically diverse? 16:30 Kinnism, THe CRC, Critical Race Theory 23:09 Spartan Theology, talking with an atheist. Jesus and Paul's connection to Essenes. 36:21 Calvinism: Predictability 41:00 I wonder what PVK thinks of "natural evangelism?" Or any of the various methods of evangelism being widely encouraged today? Methods he thinks are done well and others he's concerned to see within the church. 56:00 . So, I've been listening to Jonathan Pageau about, angels, demons and principalities and I have difficult time understanding what they are and able to articulate to others about it. So, what are angels, demons and principalities, and is there a different explanation from Orthodox Christian and the Protestant?? Thank you for your time 1:09:00 Job. Pre-covid Anything done for my church. 1:18:00 The internet tends to create monopolies, particularly for information-based products. Do you worry about the future of moving sermons online, and the fact that this would create a competitive winner-take-all environment that would mostly replace local churches and pastors for mega-churches that don't have physical constraints, and would optimize for entertainment/platform value instead? 1:23:00 What is your view of salvation when considering what role our human effort may play in it or not? Specifically in regard to Ephesians 2:8 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God”? Though we recognize we can do nothing except by grace, do you believe that the “through faith” part involves some sort of human cooperation with God in the sense that “faithfulness” might be bound up with what “faith” is? Or is salvation not dependent on our cooperation in any way? Or perhaps there is even another way you understand faith than this? Is there perhaps a paradox that can’t be fully understood here? 1:35:00 I have always had a problem with the overwhelming support of the death penalty by the Christian community. Am I mistaken that John 8 covers the way god views this after the new covenant? As well in many more red letter verses. 1:42:00 Training your faith muscles. 1:46:00 How does that "do in secret" jive with the spreading of the gospel?
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