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Unshaken Faith

#11 Don’t Put God in a Box: And Other Conversation Stoppers

Unshaken Faith

Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Theological conversations can be stopped in their tracks if someone simply pulls out the old, “Don’t put God in a box!” The most common way this phrase is used is by those who don’t want to be confined by the moral teachings of the Bible. Today, Natasha and Alisa discuss the implications and logical inconsistencies of this conversation stopper.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

0:05.0

Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

0:11.0

boldly in a chaotic culture. There's a popular meme on social media that depicts a man trying to shove a giant Jesus type figure into a small cardboard box.

0:36.8

On the box is the word theology.

0:39.4

And it's meant to convey the idea that if Christians hold firm to theological positions that we are somehow

0:45.8

trying to make Jesus conform to our small-minded conceptions of God and theological

0:52.2

conversations can be stopped in their tracks if someone simply

0:55.1

pulls out the old, ah, don't put God in a box.

0:58.6

There are other statements that have a similar effect and that's what we're going to talk about today. But first,

1:03.6

Natasha has some quick reminders and her tip of the week.

1:07.3

Well, our Unshaken Conference is coming up in Southern California in just a few weeks

1:12.2

now. So if you're in the area be sure to join me

1:14.8

Elisa and Frank Turrick on May 6 at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills where we will

1:19.9

equip and encourage you to stand firm on truth in today's culture.

1:23.5

The tickets are now on sale at unshaken conference.com and will be in Tucson, Arizona on

1:28.8

September 23rd and Nashville on November 4th.

1:31.8

Those tickets will be on sale next month. Also we want to

1:35.0

thank everyone who's been raiding and reviewing this podcast on Apple and other

1:38.0

platforms where you're listening. We have over 860 ratings of our first 10 episodes.

1:44.0

That's amazing and we appreciate that so much.

1:46.5

So if you've been enjoying the podcast and haven't left a rating or review,

1:49.7

please do that because it makes a huge difference

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