Are Christians Called to Preserve Their Ethnicity?

Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dr. Owen Strachan discusses the role of ethnicity and identity in Christianity. He addresses the debate over preserving or demolishing cultural backgrounds, particularly in relation to white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) culture. Strachan presents 10 truths about ethnicity and identity, emphasizing that God providentially gave us our ethnicity and that there is no such thing as race. He highlights the unity of the human race and the importance of appreciating our background, heritage, and culture while recognizing that the gospel unites people from diverse backgrounds. Strachan concludes by stating that the gospel is the central identity of Christians.

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0:00.0	When it comes to culture, are we as Christians supposed to demolish it, or are we supposed to preserve it completely intact?
0:19.0	In recent days in evangelical circles, these matters have been hotly debated
0:24.5	on social media. There is a lot of energy, as listeners and viewers of this podcast will know,
0:31.0	among, in particular, younger Christians over whether we are called to preserve Anglo-Saxon culture, whether we as, if we qualify here,
0:41.2	white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are supposed to sort of find our courage and reassert our culture
0:48.7	and re-establish a true home in America. Stephen Wolfe, who I've engaged on this podcast before,
0:57.1	recently gave a message along those lines for a conference held by New Christendom Press
1:03.7	and made considerable waves with his charge to fellow Christians to reassert the importance of wasp culture and even, as I have said,
1:15.4	rebuild it in these days. What I want to do today is think with you biblically about just that kind of
1:24.9	idea. Are we trying to preserve white Anglo-Saxon Protestant wasp culture?
1:31.0	Are we trying to rebuild it? Do we have a calling from God to try to reestablish our base?
1:38.6	How do we sort these issues out? A lot on the table, as usual, over here at your humble neighborhood podcast, Grace and
1:47.0	Truth. Welcome to it. My name is Owen Strand. I'll be your host. Please subscribe to this podcast
1:52.3	on all relevant platforms. It's the summer season. We are in transit as a podcast. I'm recording
2:00.2	from the road, so to speak, and so that accounts for the new
2:04.6	background that you see here, but I'm thrilled to be back recording with you and tackling
2:09.7	hot button issues, hopefully with the grace and truth of Jesus Christ, John 117, as we seek to do
2:16.3	here. What I want to do in this particular episode of
2:19.6	grace and truth is give you 10 truths. You're getting your money's worth here. You're not paying a
2:25.3	sense. So keep that in mind. Ten truths about ethnicity and identity. Now, here's what's
2:31.3	really important for me to state before I rip through these 10 truths about biblical identity and ethnicity.
2:38.2	I did a serious version of what I'm going to cover here several years ago on this podcast and in one conference and lecture and message after another when I was trying to engage what we now call the woke left.
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