BPQ&A Special: Why Do People Blame the Church, Why Sexual Morality, and What is Sphere Sovereignty?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane respond to feedback and a question on why culture blames the church for a myriad of social, cultural, environmental, and many other ills.
They then explain a few resources to help listeners think well on the topic of sexual immorality after fielding a question in response to a recent commentary.
To close, John explains the idea of Sphere sovereignty.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. And I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint. Today we are answering your questions. These were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, shortes, and the Colson Fellows program. |
| 0:21.3 | If you've got a question you'd like to ask us, all you've got to do is email us at |
| 0:25.5 | Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:29.2 | John, the questions this week include a few that are responses to previous Q&A podcast, which |
| 0:34.8 | is super encouraging to me because it reminds me that, you know, people are |
| 0:37.9 | actually listening and are interacting on a continuing basis with some of the answers we give here, |
| 0:43.5 | which is encouraging on the one hand and a little scary on the other because a lot of these answers |
| 0:48.8 | get put into practice in churches and schools and homes and homeschools. And so it's an honor and a heavy burden. |
| 0:57.0 | I take it very seriously. |
| 0:58.0 | You know, it's like that one day in college where I went and, you know, |
| 1:01.0 | finished my meal and took it up to that conveyor belt and put my dirty dishes on that conveyor belt |
| 1:08.0 | and then realize there are real people back there like real |
| 1:11.2 | people taking these dishes now it's sometimes radio can feel like a podcasting can feel like a message in a |
| 1:16.4 | bottle but we hear i've got on my desk right now three letters from folks i'm going to share with the |
| 1:21.8 | the larger team here in a little bit just really amazing and encouraging and even the ones that push |
| 1:27.4 | back which are a lot of fun |
| 1:28.9 | as well. It's pretty cool. Well, the first question is actually one of those interactions with a |
| 1:34.8 | previous Q&A podcast. I think the last one, actually, this person writes in, in a recent Q&A |
| 1:39.7 | podcast, John said he'd love to hear more from folks why blame is put at the feet of Christians. You were |
| 1:46.4 | talking about climate change, but I wanted to stretch that a little bit because I've got a broader |
| 1:50.2 | question. I have a hard time understanding why some blame the church instead of Christians on |
| 1:55.2 | issues, specifically things like moral failings. This may expand to include slavery, sexual abuse, preaching against |
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