A conversation with Andy Crouch - S10.E6
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Andy Crouch has thought deeply about the impact technology has had on relationships, community, and creativity. Technology can be a blessing, and it's often necessary for our daily lives. But it can also be incredibly destructive. In this conversation with host Warren Smith, Crouch explains how we live lives of sacrificial love and glorify God in this technological age.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with author, speaker, |
| 0:10.8 | musician, and evangelical thought leader Andy Crouch. |
| 0:15.4 | His new book is The Life We're Looking For, Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological |
| 0:22.1 | World. |
| 0:23.1 | It's a server you bickered this thing in Silicon Valley, they're like, we're going to give |
| 0:27.5 | you, you know, superpowers, and the superpower zone is this feeling of elation and efficacy, |
| 0:35.8 | effectiveness, efficiency that you feel when you are leveraging technology to get stuff |
| 0:40.4 | done. |
| 0:41.4 | But it's really dangerous because it's actually detached from the fullness of heart, |
| 0:46.0 | soul, mind, and strength, and often very much detached from love. |
| 0:51.3 | Andy Crouch has emerged as one of the wise men of the evangelical movement, with outstanding |
| 0:57.4 | books, such as culture-making, playing God and examination of power, and the tech-wise |
| 1:04.7 | family. |
| 1:06.2 | If there's a theme to Andy Crouch's work, it may be the simple, deeply biblical message |
| 1:12.8 | that God is a creator, and we are made in his image. |
| 1:16.5 | So we are creators ourselves. |
| 1:19.9 | And just as God is a triune God, one God, three persons, an intimate relationship, one |
| 1:26.3 | with the other, so are we designed to be an intimate relationship, both with God and |
| 1:32.7 | with each other. |
| 1:34.2 | Now one of the implications of these ideas is that all creative endeavors are best done |
| 1:40.8 | in relationship, in community. |
| 1:44.2 | As Andrew Peterson is fond of saying, art nurtures community and community nurtures |
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