Eden Teachings Podcast
As a brand new church community in Charlotte, we are seeking to simply practice the way of Jesus, together, for the renewal of our city.
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12 Service: Kinship (opens the original)
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We would have to ignore large portions of Scripture to avoid God’s concern for the poor and his desire for his people to care for them. In the first century, the poor or “the needy” would have included widows, orphans, or those in prison.Today, this could be children in the foster care system, a single parent, the sick, the elderly on a fixed income, or refugees. While our societal order often overlooks these individuals and keeps them on the margins, Jesus’ order — or the Kingdom of Heaven — mo
11 Service: Availability (opens the original)
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Jesus lived a remarkably interruptible life. More than 30 stories in the Gospel of Mark alone hinge on Jesus’ ability to see an interruption as an invitation. And these are just the stories that were recorded from his life. We can never know just how many people received Jesus’ loving attention and service in these unplanned moments.This way of being in the world is about more than our personality — whether we consider ourselves more planned or spontaneous. It’s about practicing radical availabi
10 Service: Hiddenness (opens the original)
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Where does your imagination go when you consider where you can serve?Perhaps it leads you to your local church, the care home nearby, or the low- income neighborhood in your city. For some of us, these very well could be the places Jesus is leading us to give more of ourselves — more on that in the sessions to come. But if we consider Jesus’ life, and specifically the environments where he chose to serve, we see a recurring theme: Jesus often served in very ordinary spaces — in homes and marketp
09 Service: Love (opens the original)
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Service has always been a defining characteristic of those who apprentice under Jesus.In the first century, this obscure group, who called themselves “followers of the Way,” took their Rabbi Jesus’ teachings and example seriously. They called the marginalized “brother” and “sister,” cared for the sick at the cost of their own health and reputation, and willingly lived with less so that the needs of others could be met.In a time when humble service was seen not as a virtue but rather as a duty of
08 Share the Good News (opens the original)
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Among the words the New Testament writers used to describe followers of Jesus, perhaps none hit quite so close to home as the Apostle Peter’s description: “foreigners and exiles.”Walk the streets of most cities in the post-Christian West as a follower of Jesus, and you’re likely to feel the force of those words — this sense that you don’t quite “belong” in the surrounding culture; you’re a kind of spiritual refugee. For many of us, that feeling can turn our faith into, at best, an awkward conver
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