There's a price to pay when you confront the culture.

It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of Ministry.

Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth.

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Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey friends, this is Michael Brown.

Welcome to the Line of Fire broadcast.

Great to be with you.

I'm not taking any calls today. We're going to be getting into a bunch of Fire broadcast. Great to be with you. I'm not taking any calls today.

We're going to be getting into a bunch of really interesting video clips and talking about what happens when we, as followers of Jesus, confront the culture around us. I don't mean hate,

hate speech, anger, intimidation. God forbid, I don't mean violence. hate speech, anger, intimidation.

God forbid, I don't mean violence.

But when we speak up, when we speak out, when we shine as lights in dark places, there's

a price to pay for confronting the culture.

It's a reason that many pastors and leaders avoid it.

Now, one reason they avoided is they think, well,

I just need to teach the scripture and encourage my flock and protect them from error and

reach out to those in our community that are hurting and in need. Of course, that's a great job of

a shepherd and a great function of the church. But we live in this world, a confused, messed up

world. Our kids are dealing with all kinds

of confusing signals from schools and social media and media. We're confronted with all kinds

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