Why and How to Reach Your Neighborhood: Chris & Elizabeth McKinney
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Imagine a neighborhood where everyone's connected, solving problems together, and showing kindness breaks down walls. Chris and Elizabeth McKinney think the beatitudes are the key to making neighborhoods thrive. Learn how to be good neighbors, build relationships, and connect with your community in unmissable ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes people come to neighboring with this guilt-based mentality. |
| 0:05.0 | They're like, man, I should stop making excuses and get to know my neighbors. |
| 0:10.0 | It's okay to make excuses. |
| 0:11.5 | Actually, that's exactly what we need. |
| 0:13.4 | We need an excuse. |
| 0:14.8 | And holidays, a lot of times are that excuse. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:33.1 | You can find us at family life today.com. |
| 0:35.9 | This is family life today. So I was going to sing a song right now, but I have no voice because I have a cold. |
| 0:49.0 | But the song is very familiar. |
| 0:52.0 | Okay. And you finish it. |
| 0:54.1 | Oh, I don't know if, do I know it? |
| 0:55.4 | Like a good neighbor. |
| 0:57.2 | State Farm is there. |
| 0:59.7 | See you can sing, I'll play it, you sing it. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, of course, everybody knows that jingle and in our neighborhood we lived on a cul-de-sac our neighbor was a state farm rep |
| 1:09.3 | Nick Powell and his wife Pam and Nick is with the Lord now but we're going to talk about neighbors today. |
| 1:15.0 | That's my intro. |
| 1:17.0 | What do you think? |
| 1:18.0 | Here's a bad intro. |
| 1:20.0 | State Farm is there. |
| 1:21.0 | Well, I mean, when I thought of this book neighborhoods reimagined. Yeah. |
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