{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Elm City Vineyard Church Talks","title":"Chosen by God, Living as Exiles: Learning to Live as Third-Culture People","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2590,"description":"Followers of Jesus live in a world that is often at odds with the life Jesus calls us to, and our own place and time is no exception. To be faithful to Jesus means that we will often feel out of place and called to ways of living and being that clash with the ways and rhythms of those around us. We are, in the words of the Apostle Peter, exiles, strangers, sojourners, foreigners, temporary residents in a land not our own, and it is in this situation that we must learn to embrace our core identity as the people of God and learn to live our lives in right relationship to God, to our fellow pilgrims in the church, and to all those around us.- Series Description - In this series we will explore 1 and 2 Peter, the Apostle Peter’s two letters to the scattered first-century church in Asia Minor, who, though distant in time and place from ourselves, nonetheless share many of the very challenges that we do. We will consider what it means to be “third-culture people” who are chosen by God and called for his sake to live both fruitfully and prophetically in a land not our own","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4puOgR7n7vQGeYirBVrhNwjdAF0WfX7aG98mntrcfik/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzgzMTIvMTU4MzUy/MzA0OS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}