Living the Dream

In this episode, we are going to look at how Jesus Christ was a Foreigner, an Immigrant and a Refugee according to the Bible.

In this episode, we are going to look at how the Bible actually calls every person that aligns themselves with the Lord Jesus Christ to live as foreigners.

In this episode, we discuss how internationals live sent and why internationals are foreigners and it is a principle that every one of us needs to understand and appreciate.

In this episode, we talk about how internationals live sent and why our churches need internationals who are being radically saved and becoming ambassadors for the gospel in order to fulfill the great commission.

Our God is a sending God. One of the celebrations of this podcast is that foreign born internationals will absolutely be used by God to be ambassadors for the gospel in reaching people far from God. In this episode, we dive deep into how our sending God orchestrates very sovereign plans to fulfill the great commission.

In this episode, we're going to talk about reaching the community, changing the world, and including all the foreign born internationals living in our community. We will talk about how we can have an impact right here in our own backyard by simply building a friendship for the purposes of the gospel with the foreign born internationals living in our community.

I remember as a child when New York City and Los Angeles were referred to as the melting pot of the world. Well, that pot has gotten a lot larger. That pot is called the United States and it's happening globally as a result of the opportunity, the gift, and the blessing of being able to get on a plane, travel, and acquire passports and visas. And so today, In 2020, we find that the face of the community in which we lived has changed.

In our previous episode, we talked to Chuk and heard about his radical transformation story. In this episode, we talk to Chuk’s father, Anjanibabu, and hear about his journey of faith.

You’re going to be blessed as you hear how God has used Chuk to have an influence over his entire household. He shares his story of radical transformation and how he really solidified his own relationship with God here in the USA.

James has been pursuing God for many years, but he is now focused on the mission of reaching internationals for Christ. He shares his story on how he and his wife met various roadblocks, which required them to come back from South Asia over to the USA. And yet he still will not allow that to deter him from the mission. And he is now ingrained in ministry right here in North Carolina.

This episode presents Part 2 of the conversation between Bishop T.D. Jakes and Pastor Carl Lentz where they continue to discuss how tragedy fatigue can be a real thing and the importance of having a stronger commitment to God over any other allegiance.

In response to recent protests after the death of George Floyd, Bishop T.D. Jakes has taken to YouTube to deliver wise and helpful messages, interviews and prayers for all of us. Amidst the troubling times that we are facing in America, Bishop T.D. Jakes and singer, faith leader, social engineer, and entrepreneur, Charles Jenkins, discuss how we can navigate the racial tension that has plagued America for hundreds of years. This episode is Part 1 of the discussion between Bishop T.D. Jakes and Pastor Carl Lentz. Watch out for Part 2 on next week’s episode.

This episode presents Part 2 of the conversation between Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church and Pastor John Gray of Relentless Church. This is a conversation of solidarity as a result of the brutal and unjust murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, at the hands of four white police officers. You need to listen to this humble and grace-filled conversation where they committed together to be a voice to the voiceless.

In this episode, we share Part 1 of the conversation between Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church and Pastor John Gray of Relentless Church. They share some of the same themes that we have been discussing on this show; including the need for diversity among blacks and whites, and among all people including all the foreign-born individuals living in our community.

Pastor David Baker of Green Level Baptist Church and the leader of their outreach program, Angela share about the logistics and lessons learned in becoming a truly diverse congregation whose demographic matches the demographic of their community.