Humility, Christian Leadership, and Slavery in the New Testament: Dr. Dennis Edwards

Theology in the Raw

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Dennis Edwards (PhD in Biblical Studies from the Catholic University of America) serves as the Vice President for Church Relations and Dean of North Park Seminary in Chicago. He’s an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church and is the author of several books including his recently released Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character. Our conversation begins by talking about humility, church leadership, handling criticism as a pastor, those who have an eager desire for a platform or to be on stage, and then we discuss the book of Philemon, slavery in the Bible, and some issues surrounding the apostle Paul’s view of slavery. Get a FREE one year supply of vitamin D plus 5 travel packs! https://www.drinkag1.com/TITR Subscribe today to the Pour Over Today! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pour-over-today/id1583657464 Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:00.0	Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology in raw. My guest today is Dr.
0:04.3	Dennis Edwards who has an M. div from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and
0:09.0	MA and a PhD in biblical studies from Catholic University of America.
0:15.1	Currently serves as the Seminary Dean and VP of Church Relations at North Park
0:20.4	Theological Seminary in Chicago land and he was formerly associate professor of New Testament at North Park.
0:25.8	He's the author of several books including his recently released book, humility illuminated the biblical path to Christian character and that's where our conversation begins talking about humility and we do talk about Christian leadership and then we spill over into some other of his interests as a biblical scholar in particular with the book of Phile Lehman that leads to a conversation about the New Testament teaching on slavery, which is a really fascinating part of our conversation.
0:57.5	So I think you're going to love this conversation.
0:59.5	Dennis is an awesome dude and has a huge heart for the church for people and for God's
1:04.2	words so please welcome it to the show for the first time the one it only Dr.
1:07.8	Dennis Edwards, how are you doing this fine afternoon?
1:18.4	I'm doing pretty well.
1:23.2	Pressin, really good to be chatting with you.
1:25.1	Yeah, so you just got over, you said just graduation is done now or is it?
1:30.7	Yeah, yeah, we just recently had our graduation and it's always a beautiful time.
1:36.4	My faculty and staff, they're wonderful and every year we record a video of us doing something silly. We recorded a whole music video. We do it every year and you can find it at North Park's YouTube channel. And that was fun. We played it for the students right before they put their
1:54.4	robes on and marched for graduation and it went over really well. So that was funny.
1:59.2	Oh my word. We did what I taught at Cedarville University years ago.
2:04.3	They did a Bible faculty rendition of the office.
2:10.9	Oh my goodness.
2:12.3	Yes. Okay my goodness. Yeah.
2:13.0	Okay.
2:14.0	So a few people might make this connection.
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