174: From Renewed Minds to Transformed Cultures (with Brian Delamont)

Brian Delamont, TeachBeyond Vice President, returns to the podcast to share from 2 Corinthians 5 about what it looks like for our personal, internal transformation to impact culture – “getting out of our heads and into our neighborhoods.” 

• Romans 12:1-2
• “Every culture, every sub-culture, has patterns of thinking, patterns of behavior.”
• Corporate Cultures by Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy
• “For everyone everywhere, there’s a ‘way that we do things around here.’ So what people think moves then from internal to external because it’s the values that drive the action. What you value in your thinking is going to exhibit itself in what you do.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
• “Transformed thinking leads to transformed practices.”
• “Trying to make people behave in the ways that Christians behave without the transformation of Christ is impossible. You can’t make an old creation behave like a new creation.”
• “Because you have been made new in Christ, the life that you live should look different.”
• Christ and Culture by Richard Niebuhr
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
• Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch
• Galatians 2:20
• “A life shapes culture because it lives out the transforming values of what it believes.”
• “Our lives matter more than we know because God, in His sovereignty, is working through the symphony of lives that is the single tone of each Jesus-follower combining with His global Church to reveal His glory to the world.”

February Reflection: Where is the Holy Spirit prompting me to bring more of the culture of His Kingdom coming? What step will I take to be the influence that Jesus is giving me the opportunity to be?

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: YouTube video about loading the dishwasher 
• Heather: Networking with new and old connections (and check out the Head of School search here!)
• Brian: Preparing legos from his sons’ childhood to play with grandchildren

Weekly Spotlight: International Christian School of Togo

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