From Gatekeeping to Empowerment: Embracing 'Power With' in Christian Community (To Be Human Series)

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Explore how moving beyond gatekeeping and adopting a 'power with' approach can transform your understanding of authority, community, and what it means to be human in God's image. Mike Erre and Tim Stafford dive deep into the concepts of power over versus power with, drawing from Genesis and the nature of God's power, and discuss how rethinking power dynamics can lead to more authentic and inclusive Christian communities.

Key Takeaways:

Understanding 'Power Over' vs. 'Power With' – How shifting from coercive power to invitational and empowering relationships can reshape church and community life.
Reflecting God's Image Through Stewardship – Insights on how the Genesis account informs our role in environmental stewardship as a way of bearing God's image.
Overcoming Gatekeeping in the Church – Strategies to hold convictions with humility and avoid building new barriers that exclude others from the community.

Resources Mentioned:

"Reckoning with Power" by David Fitch
Concepts of 'Power Under' by Greg Boyd
Genesis 1 – Exploration of the creation account and God's use of power

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Music in this episode by Timothy John Stafford

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Voxology podcast. If you're a new Voxology
0:20.6	Vox is, it means voice in Latin,
0:24.5	because it's awesome. And ology is the study of something, so the study of voices. And we kind of
0:31.1	zero in on the voice of Jesus. We're kind of fans. And it sounds cool. And it makes for good merch so boxology podcast Mike and Tim we started we're
0:41.9	going on year nine of this here getting all this year high quality podcast get yes started when
0:48.2	we were 10 which is amazing um and and today's a big day guys we're recording on Friday April 19th we record on Friday's release episodes on Mondays it's a big day, guys. We're recording on Friday, April 19th. We record on Friday's release episodes on Mondays. It's a tight ship. But today, today is the music equivalent of the movie cultural event of Barbenheimer, where Barbie and Oppenheimer were released on the same day last summer.
1:12.7	Today, Taylor Swift and the venerable rockers Pearl Jam have both released albums.
1:20.1	Taylor's was unexpected, it's a double album, some sort of anthology of torturedness,
1:25.3	Pearl Jam.
1:26.5	Same.
1:28.6	Yeah, exactly. of torturedness, Pearl Jam. Same. Yeah.
1:28.9	Yeah.
1:31.1	Exactly.
1:32.2	Yes.
1:32.8	So choose your flavor.
1:34.8	Which one of those is Barbie and which one of those is Oppenheimer?
1:37.2	You'd be the, you'd be the, the decider.
1:40.7	That's kind of funny, actually, if you think about it, because the Pearl Jam album is called
1:43.4	Dark Matter and is dealing with all this kind of like fission, fusion, like.
1:47.5	Yes.
1:47.8	It is kind of like the barbinehybro works pretty well, actually.
1:51.6	Anthologies of torture.
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