Dr. Mark Glanville discusses how churches can adapt to and impact their own neighborhoods in a post-Christian world.Book: Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and SoulBook: Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global PoliticsWHAT YOU'LL LEARN:Christian vs Post-Christian CultureFour Key Questions of ScriptureBeauty is a Glimpse of GodABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Mark Glanville trains pastors at Regent College, Vancouver, and is an Old Testament scholar.Prior to coming to Regent, Mark pastored for 14 years in both Vancouver and Australia in urban, justice seeking churches. Mark has been bi-vocational-- combining reflective pastoring with biblical scholarship and is a trained jazz pianist, active on the Vancouver jazz scene.RELATED LINKS:Dr. Mark Glanville at Regent CollegeTIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:00:38 - Introducing Dr. Mark Glanville03:19 - Mark's background and his approach to doing church03:30 - 4-note chord: pastoring, scholarship, teaching, jazz music04:13 - Exited seminary to a government housing area in western Sydney, Australia04:33 - High crime, high poverty, high community05:12 - Then to Vancouver, very post-Christian city06:31 - Impoverished cities06:50 - Impoverished, underprivileged areas are higher in community07:31 - See Christ in the faces of those who are marginalized07:45 - Deuteronomy 24 - God hears the prayers of the marginalized people09:12 - Definition of a Christian culture09:52 - Definition of post-Christian culture10:30 - Should the church fight post-Christian culture or go deep into our identity as Christians and mirror Christ?11:02 - We are authorized to embody Christ's tenderness and love11:37 - Book: Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul12:15 - Be aware of the things we do as a church that are culturally Christian and discerning what is the Spirit forming us to do12:57 - How can we be a church that is genuinely local?13:31 - Beauty is a part of witnessing Christ14:29 - Phrase: Incarnational communities14:55 - Church: a people that is receiving and extending the healing of Jesus15:23 - Incarnational Communities as a Sentence: An incarnational community is full of the Spirit, shaped by Scripture, and seeking to embody the love of Jesus and receive and display it in a particular neighborhood.15:47 - Incarnational Communities as an Image: Incarnational church seen as blues musicians18:17 - Unpacking four key questions of Scripture...18:55 - ...Biblical story19:14 - ...gospel19:53 - ...witness20:21 - ...Biblical ethics20:57 - The need for churches to truly belong to their neighborhoods21:14 - Scripture is related to place22:02 - Reconceive "witness" as loving a place in the name of Jesus22:50 - ...photos of loved places in the neighborhood24:49 - ...prayer for revival30:11 - Churches should give their attention to beauty, aesthetics, and the ar