Part 6: A Community of Peacemakers in a Culture of Political Polarization

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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From the series "Future Church." Jesus had an uncanny ability to turn enemies into guests and guests into family. He did this through "radically ordinary hospitality," just eating meals around a table. Few practices are more important for the healing of our divided nation than hospitality.

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0:00.0	Please turn your Bibles to Mark chapter 2 as we continue our teaching series Future Church.
0:19.4	We left off last week with a community of peace and a culture of outrage and fear.
0:25.7	Today the plan is to continue kind of on a very similar theme with a community of peace
0:31.5	makers and a culture of political polarization.
0:39.0	Who did you lose last year?
0:44.4	I don't mean to COVID-19.
0:46.8	I don't mean to death or to disease.
0:49.3	I mean who did you lose to politics?
0:53.5	Whether it was over masking or anti-masking or the November election or conspiracy theories
1:00.5	or BLM or whatever, who did you lose?
1:05.2	A friend, a college roommate, a family member, an aunt and uncle, a parent, a sibling, a neighbor,
1:15.7	a coworker that you are no longer in relationship with or your crosswise with now and there is
1:22.6	a palpable cut it with a knife tension whenever you are together.
1:28.1	I'm still grieving people that we lost as a church over the last year 100% due to politics.
1:36.0	Because we as a community were too far to the right or too far to the left or not far enough
1:39.7	to the right or not far enough to the left or too loud or too quiet on this or that or
1:44.5	the other we lost a lot of people from our community.
1:47.7	I don't have a number but I think a fair bit and that is very sad.
1:54.2	Sociologists tell us that this phenomenon is not unique to Bridgetown that our nation
1:59.3	is more divided than it's been since the Civil War.
2:03.0	They now have that as a statistical fact.
2:05.9	Our nation was built on the idea of E. Pluribus Unum or out of many one but lately as somebody
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