BreakPoint Podcast: What Kind of People Will We Be? The Church and the Culture at a Crossroads
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Os Guinness shared an important message at a recent Colson Center event in Phoenix, Arizona. He spoke to the situation of the church in this cultural moment, where institutions are failing and people are losing trust. Os offered a way forward, for Christians to ground themselves in truth, repentance, and forgiveness.
Out of this event, the Colson Center is launching a short course on the loss of trust and our crisis of authority. Society needs a Christian response to the breakdown we are witnessing in nearly every societal institution. The church has an answer and to help encourage Christians with clarity, confidence, and courage in this moment, we are offering a special short course in February. For more information visit www.colsoncenter.org/events
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Breakpoint podcast. My name's Wayne Stender, the product manager here at Breakpoint. |
| 0:05.6 | And today I want to share with you a special presentation by Os Guinness at a Colson Center event in Phoenix, Arizona. |
| 0:12.6 | Os Guinness talked about the topic of what kind of people will we be, the church and the culture at a crossroads. |
| 0:18.4 | In his presentation, he revisits some of the history behind this current |
| 0:22.6 | cultural moment. He talks about how society has essentially lost trust in institutions and also |
| 0:29.0 | in our history and where we're going. Us outlines ways forward. He talks about the need for |
| 0:35.0 | truth, repentance, and forgiveness. |
| 0:47.1 | He explains how reconciliation, atonement, and reformation are essential as we move forward to rebuild institutions that can be trusted. |
| 0:55.2 | Stick around at the end of this podcast, and I will share with you another special opportunity from the Colson Center on a short course where we will be discussing how Christians can move forward specifically in this time and place to rebuild |
| 1:01.8 | institutions that not only represent Christ, but that are also trustworthy to the broader culture. |
| 1:08.2 | Thanks for listening to Breakpoint, and here is Oskineas. |
| 1:11.3 | I will never forget the moment in January 1949, when my dad said to me, son, we're in trouble. |
| 1:22.1 | Jankai Shek has just abandoned the city, and we're at the mercy of the Red Army. |
| 1:28.3 | We were living in then the capital of China. |
| 1:32.3 | I had been born there. |
| 1:35.3 | Before my birth, the Japanese invaded and killed 17 million. |
| 1:41.3 | And where we lived, the only way to stop them, the Chinese decided to destroy the dikes of the |
| 1:48.8 | great Yellow River. |
| 1:50.9 | They didn't tell the people they were doing it. |
| 1:54.1 | And when they did it, 900,000 were killed the next day. |
| 1:59.1 | We lived in an area, my mother was a surgeon, |
| 2:02.9 | where there was a terrible famine |
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