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 Soul
• Book: Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

• Christian vs Post-Christian Culture
• Four Key Questions of Scripture
• Beauty is a Glimpse of God

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.

• Dr. Mark Glanville at Regent College

00:38 - Introducing Dr. Mark Glanville

03:19 - Mark's background and his approach to doing church

03:30 - 4-note chord: pastoring, scholarship, teaching, jazz music

04:13 - Exited seminary to a government housing area in western Sydney, Australia

04:33 - High crime, high poverty, high community

05:12 - Then to Vancouver, very post-Christian city

06:31 - Impoverished cities

06:50 - Impoverished, underprivileged areas are higher in community

07:31 - See Christ in the faces of those who are marginalized

07:45 - Deuteronomy 24 - God hears the prayers of the marginalized people

09:12 - Definition of a Christian culture

09:52 - Definition of post-Christian culture

10:30 - 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 love

11:37 - Book: Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul

12:15 - Be aware of the things we do as a church that are culturally Christian and discerning what is the Spirit forming us to do

12:57 - How can we be a church that is genuinely local?

13:31 - Beauty is a part of witnessing Christ

14:29 - Phrase: Incarnational communities

14:55 - Church: a people that is receiving and extending the healing of Jesus

15:23 - 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 musicians

18:17 - Unpacking four key questions of Scripture...

18:55 - ...Biblical story

19:14 - ...gospel

19:53 - ...witness

20:21 - ...Biblical ethics

20:57 - The need for churches to truly belong to their neighborhoods

21:14 - Scripture is related to place

22:02 - Reconceive "witness" as loving a place in the name of Jesus

22:50 - ...photos of loved places in the neighborhood

24:49 - ...prayer for revival

30:11 - Churches should give their attention to beauty, aesthetics, and the