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Unshaken Faith

#4 Is Jesus Woke?

Unshaken Faith

Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Did Jesus promote a woke, liberal, leftist movement? Today we discuss a recent article from popular progressive author John Pavlovitz which makes that claim. But is this a conclusion supported by the Bible?

Transcript

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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. Today we're talking about the frequently heard claim in progressive Christian circles that Jesus was woke.

0:34.0

Though you'll hear that from a lot of different people,

0:36.0

we're going to look at a recent article from popular progressive author

0:40.0

John Pavlovitz as just one specific example to see how some people come to that

0:44.8

conclusion that Jesus was woke and we're going to discuss whether that's a conclusion

0:48.9

that makes biblical sense but first announcements in our unshaken tips of the week.

0:54.6

Well, we just had a wonderful conference in Dayton, Ohio. I were so thankful to all of

0:59.8

you who made it out for that. If you couldn't make it out for that one, we're going to be in

1:03.4

Southern California on May 6th and in Nashville on November 4th this next fall.

1:10.0

So go to UnshakenConference.com for more information and we're also going to be releasing the location of the fourth date here pretty soon.

1:17.5

So Unshaken Conference.com for more info on all of that.

1:21.5

And my tip of the week has to do with defining phrases and words.

1:26.8

So when you're interacting with someone who might be talking about, let's just take this

1:30.9

phrase social justice.

1:32.7

I think every Christian wants to be just.

1:35.7

We want to practice justice, right?

1:37.9

And we want that to extend into a social scenario, right?

1:41.8

We want to be just with each other and in a social way. But what we have to

1:46.0

understand is that when people use phrases like social justice, these phrases have very technical

1:51.3

definitions in academia that have trickled down and gone

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