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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