Service 03: How Do I Serve? - Part 02 (Edwin Colon)
Rule of Life
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
How can we cultivate an intentional and interruptible life of service in our everyday rhythms and routines? Join Tyler Staton and Shelbi Shutt as they explore this “Good Samaritan” way of being in the world, featuring conversations with everyday people in the West, testimonials from real-life practitioners, and an interview with Pastor Edwin Colon.
In this episode’s luminary interview, Tyler and Edwin Colon discuss seeing our schedules through what Edwin calls “Jesus’ time” and how that creates space for encounters of love and service. Edwin is the senior pastor of the Next Step Community Church Brooklyn. Edwin, along with his wife Liz, started Next Step as a Bible study in their kitchen, where they reached out to people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction in their area. You can connect with Edwin and his team’s work at nextstepcc.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, me being from Venezuela, it's very common to help people, but I've noticed here, like, they're not, like, very used to, like, that human, like, interaction. |
| 0:10.0 | Me living here for six years has changed me to be that way, and then now I, like, overlook, like, every time I want to help someone, I, like, you're not just as much as, as open as you used to be. I feel like everyone has a routine that they're like used to. |
| 0:25.6 | And if something comes up that's out of routine, then it can just feel like jarring. |
| 0:28.6 | Sometimes it's like I wish I could help you, but I'm also not in the right state to help you or reach out to you. |
| 0:36.6 | I feel like everyone is probably just too caught up |
| 0:39.6 | in their own lives nowadays. |
| 0:41.8 | People don't really like stop anymore. |
| 0:43.5 | So I feel like those opportunities pass by. |
| 0:46.2 | I think people sometimes don't look for the opportunities |
| 0:48.1 | because it can get overwhelming. |
| 0:49.6 | I mean, there's nothing worse than, you know, |
| 0:51.5 | seeing something that you know that you're capable of, but you |
| 0:54.3 | don't do anyway. If something comes up and I have to change plans or help someone that needs |
| 0:59.8 | help, I think it's important. Just having a little more bandwidth for those inconveniences is going |
| 1:06.0 | to expand your community little by little. |
| 1:15.4 | You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast from practicing the way. |
| 1:20.4 | In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era. |
| 1:24.0 | This is Season 8, Service. |
| 1:58.0 | Thank you. This is Season 8, Service. Well, welcome to episode three in our service series here on the Rule of Life podcast. Episode one, we talked all about the motivation and foundation of the |
| 2:04.0 | practice, which is love. Last week, we got into the how of how do we begin to live this out. |
| 2:10.5 | We talked about hiddenness, which is essential in kind of getting at the motivational structures |
| 2:15.2 | of our heart as we move in the practice. And in today's |
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