Episode 58 :: Pastor Nick Person :: Stories of Pursuing Christ, Unity, and Reconciliation

I have this video linked in the show notes below, but I wanted to be sure and include it separately. This video explain systemic racism SO clearly to me, when I couldn’t understand it or see it before. Its 4 minutes long, and its worth every minute.

Systemic racism affects every area of life in the US. From incarceration rates to predatory loans, and trying to solve these problems requires changes in maj...

Today on the podcast you get to hear from the hilarious and incredibly profound Pastor Nick Person. Nick is a Father, a husband, and a teaching pastor at New Vision Baptist Church in our local community. He is a man who loves the Lord and the Word of God, and in this episode, there is so much meat, that I would definitely call it a note taker of equal amounts of challenge and encouragement.

Nick shares an incredible word about the ministry of being a husband and a Father, and then he also unpacks what that role looks like as the head of a bi-racial family during a time of racial unrest. We also talk about the painful, but somewhat necessary refinement that 2020 has brought, and the Gospel-centered call for reconciliation and pursuing unity as the body of Christ no matter what we look like, how we vote, or anything that makes us different because we are all made by the Father, saved by the Son and filled with the Holy Spirit.

This is one power packed conversation, y’all, and listen if you don’t have time to hear it all, fast forward if you have to and get to the last 10 or 15 minutes where Nick talks about what is true about God, and true about you and I no matter what happens on Election Day. Then, Nick leaves us all with a blessing and a prayerful petition for the hearts of those chasing after God’s Kingdom.

Nick says,“you don’t have to think like me, and vote like me to sit at the table of the King with me.” And I want to sit at the table with you, friend. This conversation is an incredibly profound Gospel-centered perspective about how to walk in these coming days leading to the election, but even more so in the after, and I’m honored and humbled to share it with you.

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References:

-PCA

-New Vision Baptist Church (I LOVE this church. It feels like a second home to us, as we have tons of friends that attend there, but their preschool program has marked our children forever, and we love them so much!)

-Video about systemic racism

-Civil Rights Movement

-Ahmad Arbury

-George Floyd

-MLK’s Letters from Birmingham Jail :: -”I long for the days when the Church would be a thermostat that would set the temperature of society, instead of being a thermometer that records what society is.”

-Be the Bridge- Latasha Morrison

-Breonna Taylor

-injustice anywhere, messes with justice everywhere (MLK)

-Phil Herndon’s episode

- “check your heart” (not bc I support Crist, for the record, but because this is funny annnnd true)

-Jesus Storybook Bible --God’s great rescue plan

-Our Advent series with my Daddy reading the Christmas story

-”Reckless Love”

Scripture References:

Psalm 33:18-22-obedience to the Spirit

Hebrews 12:1-2-fix your eyes on Jesus

Ephesians 2:14-18-reconciled one to another