Dave Runyon has served the city of Denver as a high school teach, a pastor, and has spent the last 6 years of his life as bridge builder–building relationships between different leaders in his community then helping them work towards the common good. He is a husband and a father of 4. Dave is a coauthor of The Art of Neighboring.
Show Notes
- (3:10) We have found that if you are gonna go after a city the size of Denver you need to break it into small pieces.
- (4:05) When we talk about going after the city we are talking about trying to demonstrate the gospel
- (5:20) An example of demonstrating the gospel
- (7:30) A story that led to the writing of the book The Art of Neighboring.
- (9:10) ”Relationships always trump programs”
- (13:15) God is using this discipline of neighboring to put me into relationships with people who are in different seasons of life, who think about the world and think about God totally different than I do.
- (16:25) Neighboring can begin with simply learning and remembering a name
- (17:35) No matter the kind of neighborhood you live in there are people in need all around you.