This podcast is a conversation between friends around a variety of topics, with a few guided questions. It is not, nor is it intended to be, a polished or a rehearsed presentation, so you will see us sounding awkward at times, searching for words and become more relaxed as time goes on.
However, we hope to introduce different topics to our audience and encourage people to continue the conversation further that the podcast is not end point but the starting point for the topic of conversation. You may continue this with friends or family. It maybe with a home group from your church. It may randomly pop up in conversations that you don’t expect. Or you may just choose to reflect on the topic further as part of your prayer time or as part of your day as you do what needs to be done.
Whichever way you choose, we hope that you will choose to engage with the conversations further in your way as God continues to move and draw you closer into God’s presence.
Being in community is holding each other and allowing each other to make these statements so that we can have the space to hear ourselves and the opportunity to move us to where God wants us to be, no matter how hard it may be for us at times to sit within this space.
After all we are all on the same journey in God revealing God to us. We are all different expressions of God revealing God’s self within our journeys and we are all at different stages of that journey too.
We hope that God will continue to encourage you through these conversations and continue to draw you deeper into God’s presence and give you peace as God reveals God’s self to you each day of your journey.
Last episode we explored the diversity of God’s creation in the world around us, and in this special two-part episode, we will unpack still further God’s creativity in the unity in diversity through our relationships with ourselves, with others and with God.
In this episode, having explored the diversity of God’s creation, we talk more about how we can explore unity within that diversity. We talk about unity in so many ways and how God’s people are united. Yet there are so many denominations and expressions of church, and within all these churches there are so many different opinions, thoughts and ideas running around, not just between denominations and expressions of church, but we even witness this within our own local church community. And sometimes, to be honest, God’s church and God’s people really do not seem that united. Yet, we still hear statements from our communities about unity in diversity and still at times we wonder how we can be united within our own communities’ diversity. We will look at how Unity in diversity fits within the church’s history and how Churches of Christ have sought to deal with that position.
These are difficult topics that we are discussing. But it is important to be able to make statements so we can hear ourselves and others. It is through hearing ourselves that God can move us. Without making these statements, we can find it extremely hard to move on to a different way of seeing and thinking about God, Us and others. Or God’s love for and care for the diverse creativity in which God creates and how God appears within that creativity.
A part of being in community is holding others and allowing them to make these statements, so they can have a place to hear themselves and to allow God the opportunity to move them on. No matter how hard it may be for us at times.
If you would like to contact us, please email: ConversationsWithRandS@gmail.com
Music in the background from https://www.FesliyanStudios.com.
Music used in this podcast was Go Beyond, by David Fesliyan, Out and About, by David Renda, and Happy Tree, by Stephen Bennett.
