Caring Enough to Confront - What Ever Happened to Right and Wrong?, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Whatever happened to right and wrong? What is behind the blatant abandonment of ethics throughout the world, in businesses, homes, and even the Church? In this program, Chip addresses these critical questions, as he pulls back the curtain on the history of moral relativism. Learn why absolute truth is an essential building block of any society.
Main Points Introduction: We’ve got a problem!- The symptom: Moral issues
- The issues: Ethics and values
- The dilemma: Who determines what’s right or wrong?
- The question: What is truth?
- Among Intellectuals - Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
- In Education - The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
- In Law & Science - Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education by Phillip E. Johnson
- In Culture - Escape from Reason by Francis A. Schaeffer AND The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer
- Public Rhetoric = Truth is Relative - "All are right," Pluralism, Tolerance
- Private Rhetoric = Truth is Absolute - "My rights," Justice, Fairness
- Painful Reults = Sowing and Reaping
- Jesus’ outrageous claims …about Himself -John 14:6 | …about His Word -John 17:17
- Jesus’ outrageous concern …about you -John 4:23 | …about your freedom -John 8:32
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Whatever happened to right and wrong? What is behind the violence, greed, cheating, and |
| 0:07.0 | moral erosion that we see in business, sports, and even the church? Why are good people making so many bad decisions? That's today. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:22.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally |
| 0:24.6 | disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chippinggram. Thanks for joining us as we begin |
| 0:29.6 | winding down our series caring enough to confront, bringing light, not hate to the most critical |
| 0:35.8 | issues of our day. |
| 0:37.2 | And we've covered a lot of really pressing topics that Christians need to be educated |
| 0:41.1 | about, including sexuality, abortion, and politics to name of you. |
| 0:46.2 | But for these last two broadcasts, we're going to revisit a classic message from Chip on a subject |
| 0:51.2 | of absolute truth, and why, a society we've tumbled so far down |
| 0:56.0 | the moral ladder to where we are today. |
| 0:58.9 | Well, Chip's got a lot of insight to share, so here's his message, whatever happened to right and wrong. We've got a big problem. |
| 1:06.6 | We get a big problem inside the church and a big problem outside the church. Now the |
| 1:11.8 | symptoms flow out of morality. And morality is just the ats and |
| 1:16.2 | shoulds. Every culture from the code of Hammurabi to the Ten Commandments to the Persians |
| 1:21.8 | or ancient Chinese. |
| 1:23.2 | Everyone has had a code of morality. |
| 1:25.5 | This is what is right, and this is what is wrong. |
| 1:29.3 | We're going to talk about a journey that's happened |
| 1:31.2 | in about the last 60 to 80 years, beginning with the philosophers |
| 1:34.8 | all the way down to modern culture about how truth has changed. |
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