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The Alisa Childers Podcast

#82 Controversial questions: Should we call out false teachers? Decolonize our theology?

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Our current cultural moment has given us some phrases, or "slogans" and Neil Shenvi refers to them, one of which is the idea that our theology and biblical interpretations need to be decolonized. We discuss what "decolonize our theology" means and whether or not Christians should do it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is it divisive to call out false teachers?

0:20.9

When we point out teachings that are coming into the church that contradict the gospel,

0:25.8

is that going against Jesus' prayer for unity that he prayed in John 17?

0:30.7

We're going to tackle that question with Christa Bontrager and Monique Dusanne.

0:34.9

Then we're going to talk with Neil Shenvie about certain slogans we're seeing on Twitter

0:39.3

and Facebook.

0:40.3

Things like, we should decolonize our theology.

0:43.9

We're going to talk about the redefinition of words, words like whiteness and racism.

0:49.3

We're going to talk about the intersection of progressive Christianity and critical race

0:53.9

theory.

0:54.9

I want to jump right in with that in just a moment.

0:56.7

I want to let you know that my new book, Another Gospel, a lifelong Christian seeks truth

1:02.4

in response to progressive Christianity is out now.

1:06.7

It is so exciting.

1:08.4

We have waited so long for this book to come out.

1:10.9

It's been a very long journey living the story and then writing the story and putting

1:16.9

it in your hands.

1:17.9

So I've been so encouraged by so many of you who have sent comments saying that this book

1:24.2

has helped give language to the red flags that you've experienced when you've listened

1:29.1

to sermons even at your own churches or even in the books that you're reading others

1:33.5

have expressed that it's been a tool that they can give to someone else that has been

1:38.6

challenging some of the assumptions they've been making.

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