Happy Hour #375 - Ross Lester

The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

My guest for The Happy Hour #375 is Ross Lester. Ross is the Pastor of Preaching at The Austin Stone Community Church. He is originally from South Africa, and has now been in the states for three years with his wife, Sue and children. I’m so thankful for Ross’ voice and his perspective on the world as a Christ follower who grew up overseas. In today’s episode, we talk about the American Church vs. American Culture, and his experience of learning what it looks like to be a pastor in the states through an international lens. Ross also dives into the problem of Christian nationalism, and lays out 10 signs of it at play. It’s not an easy or comfortable thing to talk about, but it’s so important to address as followers of Christ and be aware of what we put our faith into. Ross says, “The problem with Christian nationalism is that it is framed as a culture war, rather than a call to follow Jesus.” Oof. What I respect most about Ross is that he knows the potential cost of speaking on these topics, but knows his calling to obey and honor Christ is so much greater. Connect with Jamie Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // YouTube GET ALL THE LINKS FROM THE SHOW HERE

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0:00.0	Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy podcast.
0:03.8	I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.
0:06.4	Each week on this show, I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life,
0:10.6	the little things in life and everything in between.
0:23.2	Hey there friends, welcome to another episode of the happy hour.
0:27.4	I'm so excited for today's show for a handful of reasons, but one of them is because this person that's on the show today is actually a friend of ours.
0:35.0	He's a pastor at my church, someone that I respect and look up to and listen to and is full of wisdom and grace and so pastoral.
0:44.2	And so you're in for a treat today because my friend and pastor Ross Lester is sitting down with me today to have a conversation that it's an important conversation.
0:54.2	And I want to encourage you to stick it out because you may think I don't want to listen to this because this makes me uncomfortable.
0:59.2	But Ross is the perfect person for this conversation.
1:02.9	Do you mean to tell you why?
1:03.9	Because Ross has only lived in America for three years you guys.
1:07.9	He is South African.
1:09.3	So he is looking at what we see in America through a different lens than most of us.
1:14.0	And it's why his wisdom and his encouragement is so timely for us today.
1:19.2	Before I tell you more about our conversation, I want to ask you guys this.
1:22.6	How many of you you can raise your hand while you're walking or driving or doing dishes or doing laundry?
1:26.8	I don't know how many of you have gotten a copy of our newest book compliment.
1:30.8	It is a book that my husband Aaron Ivy and I wrote together.
1:33.7	It released just this month and it's about marriage and we are such fans of marriage.
1:38.7	We believe that if God has marriage in your future, he wants it to not only be an example of the gospel and it is.
1:45.4	We get to use our marriages to show the world God's covenantal, unbreakable, unstoppable, unending love.
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