Bob Ekblad - Social Action or Spirit Anointing? (N73)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Bob Ekblad serves immigrants, inmates, homeless people and people struggling with addiction in the US. What's even more interesting about Bob though is how he seamlessly combines social justice with a miraculous healing ministry!
“What’s happening that’s most exciting to me in the larger body of Christ is the cross-pollenization and the coming together of people from different camps to learn from each other for the benefit of the world, for the benefit of the unreached and the marginalized.” - Bob Ekblad
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.2 | So, Simbo, who are we interviewing today? |
| 0:19.5 | It's an interesting one actually, because usually I know a fair amount about them and you know nothing. |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.0 | But we're in a similar situation today where neither us know much about us. |
| 0:30.3 | But my brother actually recommended this book. |
| 0:31.8 | You still know a bit more about them. |
| 0:33.2 | I read his book, yeah, that was a while ago. |
| 0:34.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah, it's a theological hero of my brothers, Bob Ekblad. |
| 0:42.2 | Unusual name, that. It is an unusual name, we should ask him what the meaning of that name is. He was unusual, isn't it? |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.4 | Echblad. So we're in Telford. He's come over from America to do some teaching in Telford and so we thought it'd take that opportunity |
| 0:54.9 | to catch up find out who he is. Yeah so we're going to be a student for the afternoon, |
| 0:58.7 | aren't we? Yeah, we are, yeah. It's going to feel very weird. It's going to feel really weird, |
| 1:02.4 | yeah. I haven't been in a lecture hall for a long time. Yeah, I've got a feeling you're going to |
| 1:06.2 | love it though. I probably will, yeah. I probably will love it. That's some students just walking past, then. |
| 1:11.4 | It does feel a bit weird, actually. |
| 1:12.8 | It gives the kind of people know that we are on a campus. |
| 1:16.2 | I felt like a bit of a schoolboy this morning, actually. |
| 1:18.1 | I often get this when we travel to somewhere. |
| 1:21.4 | I used to get this. |
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