441 - For the Good of the Field

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

For the Good of the Field.

Two listener questions. Two in depth responses. Alter calls and platforming younger people before they're ready. Today, Mike and Tim discuss the concept of platforming people too early and the potential dangers it poses. They also explore the role of altar calls in evangelism and the early church's view of patience. The conversation highlights the importance of discernment and the need for a balanced approach to these topics. They also explore the concept of patience as a counter-cultural virtue and its application in the teachings of Jesus. The parable of the wheat and weeds is examined as an example of patient ferment, where the Kingdom of God exists alongside evil in the world. The importance of creating a culture of humanization and embodying the goodness of living under the lordship of Jesus is emphasized. The traditional practice of altar calls is questioned, and a broader understanding of evangelism is proposed. The chapter concludes with a call to be patient, resist factionalism, and love those with whom we disagree.

00:00 - Introduction and Background

08:08 - Question 1: Platforming People Too Early

27:59 - Question 2: Altar Calls and Evangelism

44:46 - The Parable of the Wheat and Weeds

01:07:18 - The Purpose of Altar Calls

01:16:36 - Being Patient and Loving Others

Full Episode on the parable here: 289 - The Wheat & The Weeds

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies, a gentleman, welcome to the Voxology Podcast. We're so delighted to be a part of your day today.
0:21.0	Welcome, Tim, what episode is this? Do you have any idea? We're
0:25.5	441 maybe? Oh man okay we're almost halfway to 900.
0:32.6	Yeah, that was always the goal.
0:35.2	Yeah, seriously.
0:36.8	Yeah, we've, yeah, just so I can't believe, I can't believe we've been around this much and that people have still
0:44.0	listen and that there are those select few who have listened to every single episode of this
0:48.9	podcast. Every now we get that email or it's like I just found your podcast and I've
0:52.1	binged the entire thing.
0:55.2	Seriously it's absolutely nuts but we're so honored and we're so grateful and if and if you're
1:00.3	relatively new Vox we were initially called the Vox Podcast, the Vox is Latin for voice.
1:06.5	And we love the idea of just talking about how beautiful Jesus is, and that Jesus is God's voice to the world.
1:13.7	You know, when God talks, it sounds like Jesus.
1:17.0	And because there's a Vox Media Corp, we change that to Voxology, the study of Voices,
1:23.4	and just left the two voices on here previously
1:26.6	that had been here, Damely, Mike and Tim.
1:29.2	So anyway, that's a bit about, and we started this thing in 2015, which is CrayCray, as my kids would say.
1:40.0	And man, suffice to say the world's changed a little bit in that time.
1:45.0	And podcasting has changed a little bit.
1:48.3	I remember, like we were in the top 50 of all podcasts or of all religion and spirituality podcasts and now it's like
1:54.7	there are ten hundred thousand if that's a number ten hundred thousand that would be
2:00.7	what a lot a hundred thousand a million not sure but anyway there's a lot
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