{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Baptist Arlington Sermons","title":" It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood! - October 12, 2025","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2231,"description":"Dennis R. Wiles  First Baptist Arlington October 12, 2025 Flourishing Together First Baptist Arlington 2025 – 2030  2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 (Gospel Guide: Matthew)  FALL 2025: It is Not Good . . . to be Alone September 7 – November 1, 2025  The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.” Genesis 2:18  It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood! Matthew 5:13-16  God has created all of us with an innate desire for significant and meaningful relationships. We find fulfillment and meaning as we live in relationship with God, with our families, with our friends, and with our church family.  As believers, we are also called to be disciples and to make disciples. We are to live purposefully in relationships so that we can help others to: Know God, Experience God, and Serve God.  Each person in our various relational webs needs . . . to be saved, shepherded, shaped, and sent!  This is for all the lonely people!  SALT AND LIGHT: Jesus challenges us to live influential, inspirational, and informational lives in the various relational contexts of our lives as disciples.  BIG PICTURE Where and to the extent we are able, faithful presence commits us to do what we can to create conditions in the structures of social life we inhabit that are conducive to the flourishing of all. -James Davison Hunter, To Change the World  INDIVIDUAL/EVERYDAY LIFE Through our relational webs (neighborhoods, civic groups, athletic organizations, schools, etc.) we have numerous opportunities to practice faithful presence and Christian hospitality.  INCLUSIVE AND INVITATIONAL We are to learn how to include people into our circles of relationships and invite them to a life with Jesus!  In a world where our neighbors do not understand our language, friendship—not argument—will become the place of evangelism . . . In the West, secularism is not an argument, it is a mood. The functional atheism we experience is not something that most of us have ever...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UAbjbO_BQA3R5XEsQj1SCg2lWzYdffFGQbPeYIvJPQ8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM0Mjg4LzE2NjM1/OTk5NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}