What In the World? EPISODE 3: The Word of God
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Bible is one of God’s most important gifts to his people. Through it we discover who he is and become equipped to follow him in the world. But rather than a source of unity, for many Christians the Bible is a point of conflict and division—especially when we fail to recognize the difference between the Bible and our cultural interpretation of the Bible. My guest today, Lanre Williams-Ayedun, says one of best ways to overcome this danger is by engaging our sisters and brothers from other parts of the global church. When we listen to how they read the Scriptures, it can both illuminate things we’ve never seen before and make us more humble about our own grasp of God’s word
“Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church” by Eric Costanzo, Daniel Yang, and Matthew Soerens - https://amzn.to/3RyObjc
Interview with Lanre Williams-Ayedun
0:00 - Intro
2:32 - Engaging Scripture globally
11:47 - Learning from the global church
18:50 - Celebrity pastors outside U.S.
22:31 - Engaging outside your context
26:58 - Scripture and cultural lenses
30:57 - Scripture and justice
Sponsor
35:09 - Sponsor - World Relief
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Debrief with Matthew Soerens
37:06 - Diverse voices speaking into Scripture
45:17 - Healthy skepticism of cultural lenses
48:33 - Other resources
53:21 - Credits
Resources mentioned:
“Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity” by Robert Chao Romero - https://amzn.to/3x4D0WR
“Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope” by Esau McCaulley - https://amzn.to/3QsZVSC
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What in the world can help the Church wear in the world to be start to search? |
| 0:06.0 | Why in the world are we prone to learn? |
| 0:08.0 | Back and forth from urge to purge? |
| 0:10.0 | What in the world can give us hope to widen our vision and run in our soul? |
| 0:14.0 | When we're at the end of our rope and suddenly to wallow and wither and both? |
| 0:18.0 | What in the world? |
| 0:20.0 | Who in the world? |
| 0:22.0 | What in the world can help the Church? |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to What in the World. |
| 0:28.0 | This is episode three of the series based on the book Inalienable, |
| 0:32.0 | How marginalized kingdom voices can help save the American Church. |
| 0:36.0 | This time we're looking at the role of God's word. |
| 0:39.0 | Without question, the Bible is one of the most important gifts God has given to his people. |
| 0:43.0 | Through it we discover who he is and we become equipped to follow him in the world. |
| 0:48.0 | But rather than a source of unity, for many Christians the Bible is a point of conflict and division. |
| 0:54.0 | Especially when we fail to recognize the difference between the Bible and our cultural interpretations of the Bible. |
| 1:01.0 | My guest today, Landray Williams Iodun, says one of the best ways to overcome the danger is by engaging our sisters and brothers from other parts of the global church. |
| 1:10.0 | When we listen to how they read the scriptures, it can both illuminate things that we've never seen before |
| 1:16.0 | and make us more humble about our own grasp of God's word. |
| 1:20.0 | Landray was born in Nigeria and now lives in the U.S. |
| 1:23.0 | She is the senior vice president for international programs at world relief. |
| 1:28.0 | That means she leads a team that provides relief and development programs in nine countries with over a thousand employees. |
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