FLOURISH Series #7: Fearless Connections: Embracing the Courage of True Friendship - Guest Dr. Mark Glanville

Fearless Connections: Embracing the Courage of True Friendship - Guest Dr. Mark Glanville John 15:12-17 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  You are my friends if you do what I command you.  I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.  You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.  I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. Mark Glanville is the Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, and an Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) scholar. Prior to coming to Regent, Mark pastored for 14 years in both Vancouver, Canada and Australia. Mark has been bi-vocational, combining reflective missional pastoring with biblical scholarship. His recent publications include Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics (co-written with Luke J. Glanville) and Freed to be God’s Family: The Book of Exodus. Mark is also a trained jazz pianist and is married to Erin with two children.