S2 Ep1024: #1024 - Living As an Exile in Babylon: Jon Tyson
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jon Tyson is a Pastor and Church Planter in New York City. Originally from Adelaide, Australia, Jon moved to the United States twenty years ago with a passion to seek and cultivate renewal in the Western Church. He is the author of Sacred Roots, A Creative Minority, and The Burden is Light. Jon lives in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan with his wife and two children. He serves as the Lead Pastor of Church of the City New York.
This podcast episode is a recording of a talk Jon gave at last year’s “Exiles in Babylon” conference, followed by our conversation together and audience Q & A.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rob. My guest today is John Tyson. |
| 0:05.1 | John is a pastor, a writer, a speaker, and a friend of mine who I just have so much respect for. |
| 0:12.0 | What you're going to hear is a recording of his talk that he gave at last year's Exiles |
| 0:16.5 | in Babylon conference. He talks about what it is to live as an exile, what it means for our |
| 0:23.2 | discipleship as a Christian to view our discipleship through the identity of being an exile in |
| 0:29.6 | Babylon, and it was a fantastic talk. It's followed up by a couch conversation that I had with him |
| 0:35.1 | in some Q&A after that. If you would like to attend next year's Exiles in Babylon conference, |
| 0:40.9 | you can go to theologinraw.com find all the info there. So please welcome back to the show, |
| 0:45.6 | the one and only John Tyson. |
| 0:47.1 | I've been asked to talk about what it means to live and be a disciple and exile, |
| 1:02.5 | and I want to share with some things with you. You may have heard me speak on before if you've |
| 1:07.0 | heard me at all, but the things I carry as deep, deep themes in my heart, the things that no |
| 1:14.4 | matter what I teach on haunt me and are always present, the things that I think, and you've |
| 1:20.8 | got to have your own version of these, but I think they're the things that enable you when you feel |
| 1:25.4 | like what is the point of any of this to speak to your own heart to keep you going and to keep you |
| 1:30.8 | in the game. So there are four things. The first one is a pastor, the second one is a church, |
| 1:37.8 | the third one is a university and the fourth one is a revival. These four things I carry with me |
| 1:44.8 | as reference points of ministry everywhere I go. They have haunted me. I take up space in my mind, |
| 1:51.3 | and I want to share these with you or bring these back to the forefront of your attention as ways to |
| 1:56.8 | think about how to follow Jesus well in a time of exile. The first one, the pastor, this is Dietrich |
| 2:02.9 | Bonhoeffer. 1935, the German church is an appeared of downward theological and ethical spiral. |
| 2:12.9 | Hitler's coming to the scene and he has a kind of satanic momentum that if you would have |
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