{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclf-conversations.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-homeless-_iv_EBst","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Homeless","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5904dc7d-2cad-4d83-99d5-2c1ab85677cc/a25df1c3-c3f6-4430-9907-39e42b0f57ef/s2e23.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/bdbdbfa2-b985-4add-aaf6-eba5863a3f3a\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The Homeless\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"In this episode of CLF Conversations, Perry and Pastor Dave discuss how followers of Jesus should think about homelessness through the lens of Mark 1:40–45, where Jesus compassionately heals a man with leprosy.\nRather than beginning with politics, public policy, or personal opinions, they begin with Christ.\nJesus consistently moved toward the people everyone else avoided.\nHis example challenges believers to see every homeless man and woman first as an image bearer—not merely a social problem to solve or ignore.\nTogether they discuss biblical compassion, practical wisdom, generosity, truth, mercy, and the church's responsibility to faithfully represent Christ to those living on the margins.\n"}