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A Rebel’s Manifesto: Sean McDowell

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sean McDowell, author of A Rebel's Manifesto: Choosing Truth, Real Justice, and Love amid the Noise of Today's World, knows Christians get angry and defensive about faith. He also knows people resist faith because of deep pain and issues of morality. He aims to encourage and inspire a generation of rebels who will dare to stand up to the madness in a just and loving manner. Sean offers clear guidance to navigate the many moral issues plaguing this generation. Listen in on his thoughts on conversations that hear a person's true concerns while remaining calmly, confidently grounded in biblical truth.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You learn typically that about 15, 20, sometimes 25 minutes, Christians get defensive.

0:06.6

They get angry.

0:08.1

Some get hostile.

0:09.9

And then I'll ask audiences, I'll say things like, why do you think you got so defensive?

0:14.4

And pretty quickly somebody says, when we don't know what we believe in why and somebody

0:19.7

presses us, it's human nature to get defensive.

0:30.0

Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter

0:37.3

most.

0:38.3

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

0:41.6

You can find us at familylifetoday.com or on the Family Life app.

0:46.1

This is Family Life Today.

1:01.0

What would you say?

1:02.0

Don't be looking at your nose.

1:04.0

I don't want you looking at your nose.

1:05.0

I want from your heart, what do you think the issues that are dividing the church today,

1:10.8

dividing the Christian community, the topics that we can't get unity on?

1:17.4

Racism, sexuality, any kind of gender issues.

1:22.4

Those are the ones that come to my mind right now.

1:24.4

Definition of marriage?

1:25.4

Yes.

1:26.4

First time in 4,000 years, we have a new definition of marriage.

1:29.3

Yeah, I don't know.

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