Good of the Bluegrass Conference Audio

2019 Session 3 - Enlarging Our Hearts and Engaging God's Mission 16.02.2019 40:33 ↓

Reflection Questions: God is a God of enemy love. Who are your enemies? (Think: whose receiving of God’s mercy makes you bristle?) How can God’s grace help you to enlarge your heart toward them? Do you have the language of grace but lack the life of grace? (Think: do you tend to apply grace to yourself but Karma to others, wanting a God who shares your prejudice rather than shatters your prejudice...

2019 Session 2 - The Situation of the World and of the Church 16.02.2019 46:58 ↓

Reflection Questions: 1.) How has the false dichotomy of sacred vs. secular kept you from seeing your neighbor’s deep religiosity? Do you tend to view your neighbor in a separate category from yourself? How has this kept you from neighbor love? Be specific. 2.) Our “boats” are filled with deeply religious, fearful, and desperate neighbors. Are we asleep and detached or awake? What would being awak...

2019 Session 1 - Neighbor Love Betrayed and Displayed 15.02.2019 45:23 ↓

Reflection Questions: 1. How does your orthodoxy tend to be a replacement for neighbor love rather than an inducement to neighbor love? Give specific examples. 2. The ethic of our culture is tolerance ; the ethic of the gospel is love. Which one best describes the ethic of your heart? How does tolerance undermine the gospel? 3. Does your life have the optics of neighbor love but lack the substance...