456 - To Be Human - Part Eight: The Two Powers

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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To Be Human - Part Eight: The Two Powers. After a couple of weeks of hijinks, we're back to your regular scheduled programming. Today we further explore the misuse of power and the difference between power over and power with or under. What about the idea of entitlement and the need to relinquish rights and privileges for the sake of others? What is the concept of power and its role in the church? What is the difference between power over and power with, and how can the church to embrace power with and forsake power over? The examples of Jesus and Paul are highlighted as models of power with, where weakness, cooperation, and relationship are valued over coercion and control. We also look at the question of whether Christians can ever use power over, with different perspectives presented.

First, Tim asks Mike to clarify the meaning of cruciformity, which is living in a self-expenditure and other-oriented way, following the example of Jesus. How can we understand it as more than a rhetorical idea and not as a call to martyrdom, but a way of living?

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Voxology Podcast, Mike Erie, Tim Stafford.
0:20.0	We've got a whole bunch of things to catch up on.
0:22.0	First of all, I have food in my teeth, so I've got to take
0:28.9	care of that. Secondly, Seth Erie today, I was just telling Tim, Seth Erie today, I was just telling Tim,
0:34.2	Seth Erie today, we had Special Olympics, yes, two days ago.
0:39.2	Seth Erie rocking the softball throw
0:41.3	and the 100 meter dash.
0:43.2	And by rocking, I mean finishing.
0:45.7	So, and then today he has, it's called the Grove Games.
0:56.0	He goes to a little school named Popular Grove. And so the Grove Games is where they honor,
0:58.0	the whole school honors the Special Olympic Athletes.
1:02.0	And at the end of that,
1:05.1	honoring, Seth Erie is going to perform Josh Grobins. You lift me up.
1:10.3	Yeah, which is going to have to end up on our Instagram just.
1:14.3	Oh my goodness.
1:15.9	I mean, he was so he's been he's been preparing for this forever and and
1:21.8	if you know our little dude if you're new to the podcast, my 15 year old son, his name Seth, he has Down syndrome and he is, he's the closest thing we have to a rock star on the Voxology Podcast and he will have the entire school up and waving their arms and it will be magnificent.
1:42.0	So that's coming.
1:42.7	So I've got a firm hour for our podcast today.
1:47.2	You, we have, we got to talk about the non-france
1:50.8	a little bit, but you went to see Pearl Jam in Sacramento.
1:55.4	And yep, there it is. Red mosquito, dude, well done. So, and we even talked.
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