#134 [Your Friendship Can Save the World] with Carrie Stephens
How do you interact with people who are different than you? If someone has different beliefs or political associations, do you automatically dismiss them?
What if your actions of friendship could save the world?
Author and speaker Carrie Stephens is on the show talking about the power of a diverse community, how we can move toward people who are different than us, and how we show up in the world as followers of Jesus first.
You’ll hear us talk about…
The Book of Ruth
Why we need diverse friendships
Forgiveness and redemption
Law, love, and politics
Carrie Stephens is the author of Holy Guacamole: A Glorious Discovery of your Undeniable Worth (Shiloh, February 2020), Jesus, Love, & Tacos: A Spicy Take on Lordship, Community, and Mission (Leafwood, October 2022), and co-author of Friendship Can Save the World: The Book of Ruth and the Power of Diverse Community (Leafwood, September 2023).
Carrie and her husband, Morgan, live in Austin, Texas, and have four incredible kids. After serving as campus ministers for ten years at the University of Texas, Carrie and Morgan have led Mosaic Church, a richly diverse community of faith in Austin, since 2009. They are passionate about reaching lives and transforming cities through church planting, campus ministry, and missional work.
Mentioned in this Episode
Friendship Can Save the World: The Book of Ruth and the Power of Diverse Community
Hesed – covenant faithfulness
Ruth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”
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