The Geography of God, with Sarah Bessey

The Evolving Faith Podcast

Sarah Bessey

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This episode of The Evolving Faith Podcast features:

Very natural chitchat between Jeff and Sarah. So natural.
Jeff torturing Sarah by reading her bio out loud to her.
Sarah’s talk from the Evolving Faith 2019 conference where she takes us to the passage in Matthew 11 where Jesus says if we are weary, worn out, or burned out on religion, he can show us rest and how to walk in the unforced rhythms of grace.
She encourages listeners that Jesus doesn’t judge our weariness and he is inviting us to walk with him to see how he moves in the world.
Sarah reminds us that the subversive nature of Jesus compels us to care about the oppressed and that there’s still good work to do in the world.
After Sarah’s talk, Jeff and Sarah discuss the ways that they experience God acknowledging their weariness and burdens.
Sarah and Jeff discuss their own evolving faith around their understanding and reading of the Bible as well as how they experience the love of God in their own lives.

Episode Notes
Evolving Faith Conference

Podcast After Party (Community Discussion)

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0:35.0	Because it turns out that what I had been taught was the wilderness, the thing to be afraid of
0:46.1	was actually God's grace and goodness.
0:49.1	That what I thought was the desert was where I found intimacy with God.
0:54.1	And what I thought was just a plain pile of stones
0:56.3	was an altar where fire would descend.
0:58.0	What I thought was exile became home
1:00.8	and you bunch of misfits became my people.
1:06.2	What I thought was a dead religion that had nothing more to offer me but more pain
1:10.7	and more burdens became a practice of faith that connected me not only to God but to my neighbors.
1:17.0	That those of us who were wounded became the healers and those of us who were hungry were suddenly the ones offering bread to each other.
1:24.8	And those of us who have been thirsty now were bearing up water from these ancient wells
1:29.7	in new wineskins.
1:31.5	And those of us who were lonely found home home this is a redrawing of the
1:34.5	geography of God to say the margins are our center now. Hi friends I'm Sarah Bessie.
1:53.0	And I'm Jeff Shoo.
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