S9 Ep935: Semiotics, Anti-Leadership, and Doing Church from the Table: Dr. Leonard Sweet
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🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Len is a true Renaissance man. Author of more than seventy books and 1500+ published sermons, Leonard Sweet’s recent publications include groundbreaking textbooks on preaching (Giving Blood), evangelism (Nudge), ecclesiology (So Beautiful) and discipleship (I Am A Follower). The second volume in his Christmas trilogy with Lisa Samson is just out (St.As). Len and co-author Lisa Samson are working on volume four (for Dementia and Alzheimers patients) of their “Songs of Light” series. Len often appears on the “50 Most Influential Christians in America” listings, and in 2010 was selected by the top non-English Christian website as one of the “Top 10 Influential World Christians of 2010”. His “Napkin Scribbles” podcasts can be accessed on leonardsweet.com or Spotify.
In this episode, Len unpacks what semiotics is, how we can better read the Bible by paying attention to story and symbolism, why CEO-style church leadership does not resonate with what Jesus said about leadership, and why the table should be the center of our ecclesiological rhythms.
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| 0:17.2 | origin of all the info is in the show notes. My guess today is the one and only |
| 0:23.0 | doctor Leonard sweet. Dr. sweet is an American Theologian that semi-oitish |
| 0:29.1 | Church's story and pastor author currently serves as the East Stanley Jones |
| 0:32.1 | professor emeritus at Drew Theologian of School at Drew University. |
| 0:35.9 | And also he supervises doctoral students at several other |
| 0:40.0 | institutions. He's the author of over 70 books. It's not a typo or a |
| 0:44.4 | speaker. It is actually 70 books more than and over |
| 0:50.4 | I mean thousands of articles. Public He's published sermons. He kind of |
| 0:54.0 | he does a lot. This dude is a wealth of wisdom and knowledge and I'm super excited |
| 0:58.3 | for you to get to know him. Please welcome to the show for the first time. |
| 1:01.0 | Do you want an only doctor Leonard sweet? |
| 1:19.7 | All right I'm here with Len sweet who should need no introduction but if you |
| 1:24.0 | need a little blurb on who Len is you can see the show notes but Len why |
| 1:28.1 | why don't I hear from let's hear from you like to talk this about your your journey I mean I feel |
| 1:32.3 | like you've lived like four or five lives already with all the stuff you've done so I'm |
| 1:38.0 | sure there'll be a lot of a lot of different directions we can go but how did |
| 1:41.2 | how did you get into ministry in academia theology. Well I come out of a |
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