“Our world is desperately seeking empathy,” says this week’s guest, Neil Matthews.

To meet that need, Neil and his team have created a podcast called, Other People’s Shoes. On the show, he has conversations with people to get a perspective of where they’ve come from, who they are, and where they hope to go.

It is his hope that by understanding, or empathizing with others, we can better love and accept the people in our world.

Neil’s is not the kind of story just everyone would be willing to share. But Neil knows that God can and, in his case has, used his mistakes to bring good into his and other people’s lives.

Listen and be inspired to see life from a different perspective so you, too, can begin to fill that basic need we all have inside of us.

Main Points From the Show:

• Balancing the need to share our Biblical Truth with loving those who don’t share our beliefs
• The need to understand people and see things from their perspective
• The fact that we aren’t perfect, yet God uses us for his purpose anyway
• We are called to use our talents, gifts, and abilities that God gives us to serve others
• Neil discusses his fall from his Pastoral position with the church
• Why it is important to simply take the next step that God asks us to take; making a difference one step at a time

Quotes from the show

Do it Better than you did yesterday.

To Give anything less than the best is to sacrifice the gift. (Steve Prefontaine)

We’re human; we can own up to the mistakes we’ve made and God can use that to bring people to him.

Our world is desperately seeking empathy.

Favorite Verse or Saying

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 NIV

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone.” Quote from Red on Shawshank Redemption

Resources

opspodcast.com

phone: 203-548-7463 (shoe)