Overcoming the Fear of the Other

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Psalm 27:1 says, “The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?” In this episode, the WHI hosts explore what happens when this verse is not a reality for us. Trapped in a blame game that goes back to the garden, we fear each other—not the Lord. We confuse the kingdom of Christ with Caesar’s Rome and begin to use, exploit, and oppose the “other,” rather than seeing people made in God’s image. But when we live in the fear of the Lord, we in turn love our neighbors, worshipping together in anticipation of the feast around the Lord’s table with the diverse community for whom Christ died—people from every tribe, tongue, and nation.

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0:00.0	That seems to be the way we deal with the other in our culture.
0:06.6	We're afraid of them, what they're going to do to us,
0:08.8	what they're going to influence on us,
0:10.3	how they're going to change us,
0:12.2	and so we justify ourselves by attacking them
0:16.5	and then separating ourselves from them.
0:18.2	If I can prove how evil and bad they are,
0:21.7	not their views, not their perspective, not how they vote, but how they are the bad
0:25.8	guy because of this, then I'm totally justified in not serving them and not loving them and
0:31.0	separating myself from them and then attacking them from a distance.
0:35.0	Because I'm righteous.
0:36.0	Exactly.
0:37.0	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:50.0	From one such meeting place a small Cambridge inn called the White Horse the
0:55.0	reformation came to the English-speaking world.
0:58.0	Carrying on the tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn.
1:09.0	Of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 271.
1:11.0	Full verse says,
1:12.0	The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?
1:16.2	The Lord is the stronghold of my life.
1:19.6	Of whom shall I be afraid? Past few episodes in this August series on Fear, we've been talking
1:27.2	about fearing the Lord, but also the joy of we have nothing to fear because the Lord is with us and for us. In this
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