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#127. Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: The Theology Behind True Transformation
Church Leadership Episode 12720th May 2025 • Our Urban Voices • Dr. Alfonse Javed
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Pastor Drew Hyun explains how the Christian faith provides a lens through which we can understand the beautiful and disappointing world we live in, while offering the kind of promising hope we long for.

Book:  Beautiful, Disappointing, Hopeful

Hope Church NYC Website

Drew Hyun Website

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

  • Three Types of Books About Christianity
  • Tension that Many Believers Experience
  • Three Deep Practices

ABOUT THE GUEST: 

Drew Hyun is the Founder and Lead Pastor of Hope Church NYC, a diverse church with three locations in New York City. Drew is also the Executive Director of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, an organization that aims to transform church culture through the multiplication of deeply changed pastors and leaders. He regularly speaks at churches, conferences and college campuses throughout the United States and abroad. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div), and Fuller Theological Seminary (DMin). Drew loves cities, ESPN, and naps, and finds it a restful Sabbath when all three come together. He resides in New York City with his wife Christina and their son David and daughter Avery. Drew is the author of Beautiful, Disappointing, Hopeful: How Gratitude, Grief, and Grace Reflect the Christian Story, available at  Amazon, Churchsource, or Barnes and Noble.

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TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:

00:38 - Introducing Drew Hyun

03:10 - Drew's Journey to Urban Ministry in NYC

04:43 - Calling to NYC and Church Planting

05:38 - Motivation for Writing Book: Beautiful, Disappointing, Hopeful

06:03 - ...Three Types of Books About Christianity

07:16 - ...Explain the Christian Faith in Three Simple Memorable Words

08:12 - ...The Christian faith gives a compelling picture of why both beauty, disappointment, and hope exist

08:33 - ...Practices of gratitude, grief, and grace so Christians can live a resilient, flourishing life

08:53 - ...Written for various audiences

12:34 - Influence of Drew's Father's Call to Ministry

12:59 - ...Drew is a Christian despite growing up in church

13:30 - ...Finding Jesus to be true and compelling

14:05 - ...Reconciliation with his father

14:37 - Two kinds of grief

18:07 - Tension that Many Believers Experience

19:54 - ...the story of the Christian faith starts with a good God creating a beautiful world

22:24 - ...posture to take from a beautiful world is gratitude

22:36 - ...but we struggle with gratitude and being alert the goodness of God

23:25 - ...but the world is also incredibly disappointing

25:49 - Creation - Fall - Redemption - Restoration

26:48 - Three Deep Practices: Gratitude, Grief, Grace

27:19 - ...invitation to live into gratitude

29:09 - ...grief - two kinds of pain

31:13 - ...grace is God's posture towards us

32:01 - Meshing the Book's Concepts with Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

32:56 - Hope for the Readers of the Book

34:37 - Contact Drew Hyun at www.drewhyun.com

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