Building a Theology of Getting Fired - Ask BreakPoint
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field important conversations downstream from worldview. A scientist asks how to frame gender identity. Another listener asks how to engage fundamental worldview questions in the classroom.
John references the need for building a theology of getting fired. He notes that we must continually ask fundamental questions in building a worldview.
John and Shane help listeners consider some survival tactics of consciousness of self-interest. The encourage listeners to hold self-preservation in engaging worldview battles hand-in-hand with truth. John rests his thought on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's work on Live Not By Lies.
Shane closes with a question about Bible translations. The two wrestle the question while also driving listeners to simply read the Bible. They provide recommendations on strong translations. They also build confidence that the Bible is reliable.
Resources:
Solzhenitzyns Live not by lies
Colson Center - Worldviews and cultural fluency
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm the late great Shane Morris here with John Stone Street answering your questions. |
| 0:11.1 | Yeah, the late was a little bit of a slip, although I see that you're wearing a sweatshirt in Florida today. |
| 0:16.8 | So I'm trying to figure out what's going on with that whole thing. |
| 0:20.1 | Well, it's down in the 70s today. |
| 0:21.8 | And it's ritual for us to pretend like this is cold weather. |
| 0:26.1 | So we dress up like this in winter clothing as soon as it drops below the 80s. |
| 0:31.2 | The iguanas are not even falling out of the trees yet. |
| 0:33.6 | The iguanas are not even falling, right? |
| 0:35.4 | Well, I did notice that. |
| 0:36.8 | I felt bad about saying late. |
| 0:38.3 | I wanted to say great, but it just kind of came out in a row. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, I was kind of worried. |
| 0:42.3 | It's like, should I be anticipating something here? |
| 0:44.3 | No, no worry. |
| 0:45.3 | I skipped that class on prophecy and seminary, so you don't have to worry about me, you know, having any sort of authority on that. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, I am back here. For those of those of you who don't know what we're talking about here, last week on |
| 0:57.3 | Breakpoint this week, Maria Bear joined John filling in for me while I was taking a day |
| 1:03.1 | off. |
| 1:03.5 | And they talked constantly about my homeschooling background, about my apparent age, about all the usual things. |
| 1:11.6 | We didn't want to miss the opportunity. |
| 1:12.6 | It would have been bad stewardship. |
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