A Practical Guide to Culture with John Stonestreet
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: Chuck Colson as a mentor to both (1:30); the false dichotomy of sacred and secular and the pandemic of churches conforming to the culture (9:00); the importance of authority in the church in accordance with Scripture and the ties to church history (17:00); the distinction between cultural waves and undercurrents outlined in Stonestreet’s book A Practical Guide to Culture (23:30); the problem of perpetual adolescence and a culture that craves staying young forever (30:00); how information has replaced knowledge in our age, the shifting importance of right from wrong to whether we’re nice or mean, and discernment as an antidote (37:00); the transactional nature some churches have taken on as opposed to being transformational (43:30); the influence of materialists like Richard Dawkins on culture and the loss of what it means to be humans made in the Imago Dei (51:30); gender fluidity in contrast to biological reality (56:30); influencing the culture rather than the culture changing us (1:01:00).
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to another edition of Hank Unplug, the podcast that brings you some of the most |
| 0:27.7 | interesting people on the planet. |
| 0:30.6 | The conversation today is no exception, as John Stone Street joins me on Hank Unplugged. |
| 0:37.7 | John is the president of the Colson Center for Christian World View and co-host of |
| 0:43.4 | Breakpoint, the Daily Cultural Commentary founded by the late Chuck Colson. |
| 0:50.8 | And John has done a lot of work in a lot of different areas, including writing a book, along with |
| 0:56.6 | his co-author, Brent Cundle, a practical guide to culture, which we're going to be offering |
| 1:03.3 | throughout the year through the Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. John's good to have you |
| 1:08.1 | with us. Well, thanks, and thanks for calling me one of the most interesting people in the world. |
| 1:12.1 | I mean, Hank, I've been called a lot of things. But, man, I'm going to put that on my bio sheet now. |
| 1:17.4 | Hank Hanegraff called me one of the most interesting people in the world. You can't take it back. |
| 1:21.6 | It's too late. Sorry, yep. You know what I called Rod Dreher, the most interesting man in the world? I got that from, I think I got it from a beer commercial. |
| 1:31.2 | That's right, the Delsake's man. |
| 1:32.9 | Yeah, I think if there is a figure out there that's kind of like the Christian Delsackay's man, it's got to be Rod. |
| 1:39.0 | I think you're right on that one. |
| 1:40.6 | Yeah, he's cool. |
| 1:41.4 | I enjoyed doing Hank unplugged with him, and I know I'm going to enjoy this |
| 1:46.2 | conversation with you as well. Let's talk about Chuck Holson. I love Chuck Olson. I think he was one of |
| 1:52.2 | the great Christian statesman of this or any other time. Well, listen, I obviously, I'm biased. I got to |
| 1:59.6 | know Chuck over the last several years of his life. I mean, back in about 2007, and, I obviously I'm biased. I got to know Chuck over the last several years of his life, |
| 2:02.0 | I mean, back in about 2007, and when I was working with Summit Ministries, and I ended up |
| 2:08.9 | teaching as part of a program he had started called the Centurions program, which was kind of a |
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