Cancel Culture–and Constructive Conversations: Philip Yancey
FamilyLife Today®
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Ever felt the pull of cancel culture? It's that moment when someone slips up, whether it's a tweet from a decade back or a recent slip of the tongue, and suddenly the online world comes together to unfollow, call out, and attack them. Author Philip Yancey promotes the idea of grace in this chaotic environment and explains the effects of cancel culture.
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| 0:35.0 | Jesus was so clear. |
| 0:40.2 | He said, whatever you do to the least of these, not the best of these, whatever you do to the least of these not the best of these whatever you do |
| 0:44.4 | to the least of these you do it to me and when you do that this whole ranking |
| 0:49.8 | thing that we're so good yeah I'm more wholly than you than you, and more strict, I'm more right, I'm more |
| 0:54.0 | theological, whatever. That's just so irrelevant. The question is, are you more loving? |
| 0:59.7 | John in his gospel describing Jesus that he came full of grace and truth. |
| 1:05.0 | Truth, we've done a good job, we've worked out. I just wish we had a little bit of that |
| 1:11.2 | same energy and passion toward being more grace-filled, |
| 1:14.4 | grace dispensing than anybody else. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 1:32.0 | You can find us at family life today.com. This is family life today. So recently I sort of got attacked online. |
| 1:47.0 | By some people that I've been in relationship and ministry with over decades. |
| 1:57.0 | And it wasn't to you personally, but it was on Facebook. |
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