Making a Mark in Your Neighborhood: Chris & Elizabeth McKinney
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We cross paths with our neighbors all the time, but how often do we really connect? Chris and Elizabeth explore the power of genuine neighborly love, showing how it can make a big difference. Learn how to challenge the norm and inspire a passion for building meaningful relationships right in your own neighborhood.
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| 0:00.0 | There are some people in the neighborhood that wish, you know, why do we need to spend money on this and why do we need to do all these things? |
| 0:07.5 | But I think as we've sought the common good, it's built a lot of trust and it's built a lot of relationships. It's not we didn't do that to try to get those but it's just happened to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:34.1 | You can find us at family life today.com one of my favorite topics today. |
| 0:50.0 | What's this is your favorite topic? |
| 0:52.8 | It is definitely something, you know this, |
| 0:55.7 | I get passionate about, make a dent where you're sent. |
| 0:59.5 | It's true. |
| 1:00.0 | And you know, a preacher, it has to rhyme, so, you know. |
| 1:02.1 | And we're calling it neighboring yeah |
| 1:04.7 | and that's the thing when you make think about making a dent where you're selling I |
| 1:07.5 | think a lot of people think I need to go on a mission trip and that's often |
| 1:12.0 | what right away what goes their head and that could happen and |
| 1:15.6 | God could call you to do that and he does often but we often don't think make |
| 1:19.7 | it didn't wear a scent where am I sent because people ask me all the time, well we know where you're |
| 1:23.2 | sent, you're a pastor, you're a missionary, where am I sent? You're sent right where you are in |
| 1:28.2 | your neighborhood. So that's why we're talking about neighborhoods. Yeah, it's our mission field is many times our neighborhood and so I was |
| 1:36.0 | convicted as we talked about this the last time and I know our guests don't want us |
| 1:40.9 | to feel convicted they want to inspire us. So we have Chris and |
| 1:44.1 | Elizabeth McKinney back with us today. You guys are great and you're inspiring |
| 1:48.9 | because you are doing just what Dave said. You are impacting and loving your neighbors, the people |
| 1:55.2 | around you. It's not just they are a project to lead to Christ because that's as |
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