How Do You Love A Neighbor Who Hates Your Faith?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet is joined by Dr. Bill Brown, Dean of the Colson Fellows program that equips attendees with Christian worldview and a ministry plan to reach their communities.
Dr. Brown brings questions from the Colson Fellows class of 2021, along with a few questions we've received at the Colson Center related to neighborliness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. Today is our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. These are questions that have been curated from our commentaries and programs and other places around the Colson Center. I'm John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center, joined today by Bill Brown, Dr. Bill Brown, a senior fellow of worldview and culture at the Colson Center and the Dean of our Colson Fellows program, |
| 0:22.6 | a longtime friend and mentor and hero in so many ways. |
| 0:27.6 | Bill, great to see you. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi, John. It's good to see you too. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, it's great to have you on. You're a source of wisdom for me and for many of our Colson Fellows. |
| 0:36.6 | In fact, a lot of these questions have |
| 0:38.0 | come from Colson Fellows webinars and other places, but also from our listeners. Questions |
| 0:43.7 | sparked by different breakpoint commentaries or short courses or articles or columns or anything |
| 0:48.3 | like that. And of course, we always welcome more questions. We're getting so many great |
| 0:53.9 | ones these days from so many different angles. And you can email us with your questions. We're getting so many great ones these days from so many different angles. |
| 0:56.5 | And you can email us with your question at Ask the Colson Center at |
| 1:00.8 | colson center.org. That's ask the Colson center at colson center.org. So Bill, what questions |
| 1:08.2 | are we going to wrestle with today? Yeah, I've got a few for you, John. And I'm so glad we do this because oftentimes people have questions they don't know where to ask, and they can just come right here to us. |
| 1:17.6 | And let me give you, oh, there's so many, but let me give you this one here. |
| 1:22.6 | It's a basic one, but it's a question that I have been asked a number of times. |
| 1:25.6 | Jesus commanded us to love God with all our heart and to love our neighbors. |
| 1:31.3 | Yet a lot of studies find that fewer than 15% of Americans even know their immediate neighbors' names. |
| 1:38.3 | And that's, I guess, I think the rubric is to define neighbors as the eight closest front doors to their house. |
| 1:46.5 | Now, these numbers are not any better among Christians when compared to non-Christians. |
| 1:51.0 | They don't know their neighbors as well. |
| 1:53.9 | And the questioner goes on to point out that there are health benefits to the neighboring |
| 1:57.9 | and community benefits and quality of life and so on. |
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