Navigating Cultural Shifts: Faith, Truth, and Engagement
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"Christianity started out as a powerful minority voice in culture but at times in history and today in America, evangelicalism is a major cultural voice and possibly a deciding factor in the 2020 presidential election. So how do we respond as the tide turns and we hear criticisms coming our way that American Christianity is a bully using its political and social sway for ends that the world says are mean, immoral, and even hateful?" [00:58:11]
"I don't presume to have the last word on these complex matters but I realize also that I don't have the luxury of saying nothing or thinking nothing because I live in this very embattled world as a Christian whose citizenship is in heaven in allegiance to King Jesus first and foremost and whose authoritative Life Charter is the Bible not the US Constitution." [02:28:31]
"For the people of God to be regarded as immoral and dangerous is not new. We get the impression that it's new because for about three hundred years we've lived in a peculiar aberration in the history of the world called America. Far more biblically normal is what we read in the New Testament." [04:50:12]
"The biblical position on controversial social and cultural issues is not immoral, it's not harmful, it's not unloving to say out loud that there is no such thing as so-called gay marriage because God has created and defined marriage as a coveted life together of a man and a woman." [07:02:19]
"It's not harmful or unloving or immoral to stand up and say the commands of our Creator are good for us, not harmful, and the path of repentance and faith in Christ and obedience to his word is the path of life and joy. That's not immoral, doesn't matter what the world says." [08:09:59]
"The political voice of Christians, especially pastors, I would say, should be so permeated by the announcement of the horrors of divine wrath over the human race because of God-belittling sin and so permeated by the beauty of the gospel of divine rescue." [08:48:10]
"Our voice should be so permeated with these things that it is evident to the world that political concerns for true Christians fade into mists compared to these vastly greater realities. And I think one of the great failures of much of American Christianity, especially in recent days, I would say, is that we have fit into the world." [09:27:26]
"Whatever we say about politics, I'm not saying we shouldn't say anything, but whatever we say about politics, it should have this flavor: we Christians have died with Christ and our life is hidden with Christ in God. Our citizenship is in heaven, not on the earth." [10:26:23]
"America is not the New Jerusalem and politics is not salvation. We may succeed in putting every fiscal policy, every wise social policy, every international policy in place and America still be a wicked people. All Co belligerents that muffle the call to repent is unchristian and unloving." [11:18:56]
"Under this radical orientation on Christ and his kingdom, we vote, we vote and we expect very little of eternal consequence from our vote. One day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day, the Apostle says in the presence of God." [12:01:09]
"Our politics should be permeated about what is real, not what is so utterly ephemeral. Amen. That's a really good word on the urgency of eternal things and the discord we feel in this world with its priorities and the eternal world which roots our own priorities." [12:28:59]
"Thank you for all your support over the years, and on Monday we return to feel the question about the cross. Wasn't the cross overkill for sin? Interesting question I know a lot of listeners actually wrestled with in some form. We're gonna voice it and we're gonna answer it on Monday." [12:51:39]
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"I don't presume to have the last word on these complex matters but I realize also that I don't have the luxury of saying nothing or thinking nothing because I live in this very embattled world as a Christian whose citizenship is in heaven in allegiance to King Jesus first and foremost and whose authoritative Life Charter is the Bible not the US Constitution." [02:28:31]
"For the people of God to be regarded as immoral and dangerous is not new. We get the impression that it's new because for about three hundred years we've lived in a peculiar aberration in the history of the world called America. Far more biblically normal is what we read in the New Testament." [04:50:12]
"The biblical position on controversial social and cultural issues is not immoral, it's not harmful, it's not unloving to say out loud that there is no such thing as so-called gay marriage because God has created and defined marriage as a coveted life together of a man and a woman." [07:02:19]
"It's not harmful or unloving or immoral to stand up and say the commands of our Creator are good for us, not harmful, and the path of repentance and faith in Christ and obedience to his word is the path of life and joy. That's not immoral, doesn't matter what the world says." [08:09:59]
"The political voice of Christians, especially pastors, I would say, should be so permeated by the announcement of the horrors of divine wrath over the human race because of God-belittling sin and so permeated by the beauty of the gospel of divine rescue." [08:48:10]
"Our voice should be so permeated with these things that it is evident to the world that political concerns for true Christians fade into mists compared to these vastly greater realities. And I think one of the great failures of much of American Christianity, especially in recent days, I would say, is that we have fit into the world." [09:27:26]
"Whatever we say about politics, I'm not saying we shouldn't say anything, but whatever we say about politics, it should have this flavor: we Christians have died with Christ and our life is hidden with Christ in God. Our citizenship is in heaven, not on the earth." [10:26:23]
"America is not the New Jerusalem and politics is not salvation. We may succeed in putting every fiscal policy, every wise social policy, every international policy in place and America still be a wicked people. All Co belligerents that muffle the call to repent is unchristian and unloving." [11:18:56]
"Under this radical orientation on Christ and his kingdom, we vote, we vote and we expect very little of eternal consequence from our vote. One day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day, the Apostle says in the presence of God." [12:01:09]
"Our politics should be permeated about what is real, not what is so utterly ephemeral. Amen. That's a really good word on the urgency of eternal things and the discord we feel in this world with its priorities and the eternal world which roots our own priorities." [12:28:59]
"Thank you for all your support over the years, and on Monday we return to feel the question about the cross. Wasn't the cross overkill for sin? Interesting question I know a lot of listeners actually wrestled with in some form. We're gonna voice it and we're gonna answer it on Monday." [12:51:39]
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