Love Your Neighbor The Faith Revolution Podcast

Episode Transcript 
Kirk: This is Kirk. 
Jenn: And this is Jenn. 
Kirk: And welcome to The Faith Revolution Podcast today. It's going to be an interesting day, because we're going to be talking about loving our neighbor. And when I talk about loving our neighbor, it's easy to say, "Oh, we all know how to do that. We've read the story in the Bible," and all those things, but today we're going to take a different look. And I think it's going to challenge . . . It challenged my perceptions when we looked at it, and I know, as we've talked about it, we've had new things continue to pop up. So I want to jump right in, and I wanto to talk to Jenn and ask her a little bit about loving our neighbor, and how this all began. Just go. 
Jenn: Okay. [chuckle] My first moment of thinking, "Oh goodness, we have something different. There's a new way to look at this," was, we were walking down the street in our current neighborhood, and you, Kirk Walden, looked at me and said, "You know, I think, when God says love your neighbor . . ." 
Kirk: Yeah. He meant it. 
Jenn: He meant it. [chuckle] 
Kirk: When Jesus said that, he meant it. And that was just kind of strange--I hadn't thought about that before. But he was not only talking in the big picture. We know the story of the good Samaritan, where he talks about loving your neighbor. But what about our neighbor on the street? And in our previous neighborhood, we didn't have bad relationships, but we just didn't have a lot of connection with our neighbors, did we? 
Jenn: No, and just to put it in context, you are an extrovert. You will talk to anyone. 
Kirk: I love it. If I go into a store, I'm going to say, "Hey, how you doing?" When I check into a hotel, I get to know people, and all those things. It's just my thing. 
Jenn: You're that person where, everybody knows your name. When you go into the post office, or a place where you are a frequent visitor, people know who you are. That is you, Kirk Walden. 
Kirk: And at the bank, do I go through the drive ­through? 
Jenn: Oh, heck no. 
Kirk: I have to go inside. So, we are, right now, podcasting in the middle of the COVID epidemic, and it's killing me, because I can't go inside the bank. It's all remote, and it's just tough. 
Jenn: So that's who you are. I, on the other hand, am an introvert. Some people really don't believe me when I say that, but it's very uncomfortable, for me especially, to converse with someone I don't know. If I know you, we're great, but if I don't know you, it makes me really stressed. So that has been our marriage, and that's been my growth in the last years of being married to you. 
Kirk: Well, you say you hide behind me, but when we go out and see people or whatever. But fact of the matter is, when people see you, they are drawn to you, and I think a lot of people, I'm glad you shared that. Because a lot of people, I don't think, realize that you are an introvert. So here we are, in our old neighborhood, rocking along, we end up needing to move. 
My mom moves in with us, she had had a stroke, and we need a new place where we can create a landing pad for her. She had been downstairs in a house where most everything is upstairs. She couldn't be going up and down stairs for years, so we needed a new home. Take us from there, Jenn. 
Jenn: So, you would think this wouldn't be hard, but we had a lot of needs. We had a lot going on with our home. You work out of our house. When you're not traveling, you're home...