Finding Rest in a Restless World (with Andy Crouch)

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Longtime friend Andy Crouch joins Curtis to talk about what it means to truly rest the way God intended us to do so. Why is rest so important to creativity? What is the difference between rest and leisure? Is binge watching Netflix actually restful? What are other key mistakes we make in approaching this vital topic? The conversation is Good Faith at its best, combining Biblical theology, cultural analysis, and practical living.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast with your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith Podcast
0:22.2	is a production of redeeming babble, and it's where we gather with friends who follow
0:27.3	Jesus, and together we're helping each other make sense of the world, and joining me today
0:33.2	is very good friend Andy Crouch, who's going to help us make sense of a very important topic
0:40.0	that often isn't neglected in this world, and it's the topic of rest. So Andy, thank you so
0:45.2	much for joining us. It is a pleasure to be back. And we actually, it's not only a pleasure,
0:51.1	but it's a rare opportunity because Andy is about to go offline for quite some time on an
0:59.6	extended sabbatical. So we thought we were going to miss Andy for at least until next year,
1:05.9	January. So this is a long sabbatical Andy is taking and shows his commitment to a very
1:12.0	serious practice of rest, which is this particular form is a sabbatical. Now we may not all
1:21.4	be able to take extended sabbatical certainly as long as this, and I'm sure Andy will talk about
1:26.2	that, but the underlying value that drives Andy, as I, and he'll talk about this, I think is
1:33.2	rest is the the call to rest. And so that's really the topic for today. How do we make sense of rest
1:40.8	in what feels often like a restless world? So Andy, get us started. How should we think about
1:49.2	rest? And then tell me us how you're making sense of it. Oh man. Well, I suppose we should start
1:56.8	at the very beginning because really among the extraordinary innovations of the Hebrew Bible's
2:04.0	account of creation is this idea that rest is built into the fabric of creation and of the
2:10.7	creators activity in creating, which is as far as I know, absolutely novel and unprecedented
2:19.3	among the creation literature of the world that Genesis was written in and written for and written
2:24.4	from. And you know, it's not just that we have this kind of extraordinary statement on day seven
2:29.6	that after six days of creating the Lord had finished all his work and now rested on the seventh
2:34.7	day. But it's also this pattern of day and night that at the end of every day, God finishes his
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