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Nomad Podcast

Dave Andrews - How Not to be a Great Man of God (N81)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dave Andrews has committed his life to serving the poorest and most marginalised people through small, local Christian communities. He's clearly a man who knows Jesus intimately, and has gained tremendous experience and wisdom. So why doesn't he consider himself, or even strive to be, a 'great man of God'?

“I have deliberately chosen to locate myself in my local community and see myself not as a great man of God, but as a little brother of Jesus – trying to do little things with lots of love, which is a lot healthier for the people round about me because my approach is less imperial. And it’s a lot healthier for me, because I think it’s much more spiritual.” - Dave Andrews

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.

0:16.2

Welcome back to Nomad podcast.

0:19.1

Where are we this month, Dave?

0:20.7

We're in Birmingham.

0:22.0

To interview an Australian.

0:23.6

Yeah.

0:24.2

We're generally interviewed people from the UK and the US, don't we?

0:29.7

Yeah.

0:30.5

So it's nice to interview someone from a bit further afield.

0:33.5

Yeah, and it's nice that it's not a Skype.

0:36.0

We're going to meet him face to face.

0:37.5

Yeah.

0:38.4

Dave Andrews.

0:39.3

Dave Andrews, who we saw at Greenbelt last summer, didn't we?

0:43.9

We did.

0:44.4

Very interesting chat.

0:45.3

Yeah, I read his book Christy Anarchy, probably about at least 10 years ago, I think.

0:50.7

Yeah.

0:51.4

And it was one of those books that kind of stirred me up a bit.

0:55.8

He's got a great beard.

0:57.3

Yeah, yeah.

0:57.7

That's what I like about him.

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