Posts from the ‘Jer Swigart’ Category
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May 12th, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, God & Christianity, Jer Swigart, Justice & Ethics
“Where the rubber meets the road for us, as everyday peacemakers, are in the spaces of interpersonal relationships,” explains Jer Swigart, Directional Leader of The Open Door Community and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project. Our training for The Global Immersion Project is designed for home, neighborhood, city, nation and world. In dealing with […]
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May 12th, 2015 | Christian Living, God & Christianity, Jer Swigart, Spiritual Growth & Discipleship
“We were mining, what is the way of Jesus?” answers Jer Swigart, Directional Leader of The Open Door Community and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project. A new way of being human involves being rooted in Christ, woven together in community, living self-sacrificially and teach by doing. “The way of Jesus, the new way […]
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May 12th, 2015 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, Jer Swigart, Justice & Ethics
“We’re identifying these mustard seeds of hope and leveraging stories,” says Jer Swigart, Directional Leader of The Open Door Community and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project. There is also something formative about taking time to lament with each other, which is something that the American Church is historically not good at. “Telling stories […]
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May 12th, 2015 | Christian Living, Jer Swigart, Justice & Ethics
“I don’t come in in the posture of a hero, I come in in the posture of a learner,” explains Jer Swigart, Directional Leader of The Open Door Community and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project. White Americans are used to leveraging our resources to enter in to other cultures as the hero. Rather […]
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May 12th, 2015 | Christian Living, Church & Community, Jer Swigart
“A shortcoming in North American Christianity is that we’ve trained our people to tribalize and find people who are just like us,” answers Jer Swigart, Directional Leader of The Open Door Community and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project. While there are advantages to having like-minded relationships, we also need people who are different […]
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May 12th, 2015 | Church & Community, Current Affairs, Politics & Contemporary Issues, HP :: Featured, Jer Swigart
“Jesus seemed to do it couched in relationship,” explains Jer Swigart, Directional Leader of The Open Door Community and Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project. Jesus often showed up in broken spaces with humility and compassion while also calling people to uncomfortable boldness. “One of the features of Jesus I most admire is the […]
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