#4 Is Jesus Woke?
Unshaken Faith
Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain
4.9 • 1.4K 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?
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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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