First15 Conversations: Jon Tyson
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
2020 has been one of the most challenging years we’ve experienced as a nation, and it seems that no other city has had to bear as much as New York City. So today, we are grateful to spend some time with Jon Tyson, lead Pastor of Church of the City, New York, located right in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen. Over the last few months he has gained an up close and personal perspective on the challenges we face as a country and as the body of Christ.
In our conversation we cover topics like...
- Jon’s personal battle with COVID-19
- How we can respond to the division in our country
- How to hold onto the lessons we’ve learned in this season
Jon has a passion for seeing God renew the church in New York and beyond, and I know you’ll be challenged and encouraged by his heart and story.
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| 0:00.0 | Today in the First of Team Podcast, we're excited to spend some time with John Tyson. |
| 0:10.0 | John is the lead pastor of Church of the City New York, |
| 0:12.9 | located right in the heart of Hell's Kitchen. |
| 0:15.7 | He's also the author of The Burnin Is Light, |
| 0:18.4 | a creative minority, and a new book |
| 0:20.8 | called Beautiful Resistance. |
| 0:23.0 | John has a powerful perspective |
| 0:25.0 | around the challenges we're facing right now in our world. |
| 0:29.0 | I hope that you're encouraged and challenged today |
| 0:32.0 | as you join in on our conversation. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the First of so much going on. Thanks so much for making some space to talk to Josh and I today. |
| 0:50.0 | No worries, mate. Thank you for having me on and it is a real joy to be with you today. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, first of all, just to kick it off, I'd love to hear your experience over the last few months. |
| 1:00.0 | I know you're New York City, one of the hardest hit areas with the pandemic. |
| 1:03.9 | And then without what feels like one moment of recovery, |
| 1:06.7 | you've been navigating this reawakening |
| 1:09.3 | around the systematic racism and violence |
| 1:11.8 | that exists inside of our world and our nation and it seems |
| 1:15.4 | like New York has been bearing significantly more weight than a lot of other |
| 1:18.8 | places around the world with these issues and so what's that been like for you and your family and even |
| 1:24.3 | your church? Well mate do you want the happy answer do you want the real answer? The |
| 1:28.0 | real answer. It's been very very hard. My whole family got COVID right at the start of the pandemic. So I was very sick |
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