Carl Lentz, Chuck Colson, and the Social Pull to Celebrity - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Faithfulness, not success. That was a phrase that circled around Chuck Colson. However, as John Stonestreet points out to Shane Morris, that was something Chuck learned through real life consequences.
John and Shane think through the power of celebrity, drawing listeners to recognize the power of social media to build an idol of success. They make the statement that social media is the most powerful force to engage and reveal a worldview since the printing press.
John and Shane also explore the worldview of former Vice-President Joe Biden as he begins making placements for his cabinet.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. You can find links to all of the stories that we're |
| 0:24.9 | talking about here by visiting breakpoint.org. We'll also find commentaries and resources every day |
| 0:31.1 | to help you live and think like a Christian in today's culture. John, have you seen that meme where |
| 0:36.8 | the guy is looking at the clock |
| 0:39.1 | and it says 1159 PM December 31st, 2020? |
| 0:43.2 | And he's smiling, he's like, it's almost over. |
| 0:45.7 | And then it changes over to 1160 PM, December 32nd, 2020. |
| 0:51.8 | I think that really encapsulates an attitude a lot of us have implicitly that, you know, |
| 0:57.8 | maybe once this year's over, all of this stuff will end and it'll be better. The problem is, |
| 1:03.6 | you know, pandemics and economic turmoil and whatnot don't really care about what the calendar |
| 1:09.0 | says. Yeah, they don't really watch the Dick Clark Rocking Eve, |
| 1:12.9 | New Year's Rocking Eve show. Like, you know, pandemics are waiting for that, you know, |
| 1:17.4 | to show up and who's the guy now that does that for him? Absolutely no idea. Really? I can't |
| 1:23.1 | even remember who it is. We're going to get tons of emails saying, you can't believe you know. Anyway, but yeah, you're right. They're not waiting for John Lennon to sing Imagine in New York |
| 1:31.1 | City so that the world can get better again. And you know, there's a serious point there, too. I |
| 1:36.0 | watched the video that our team put together. It's like a Colson Center year-end video. If you go to breakpoint.org, it pops up there in front of you. And you've opened up with the point about God putting us in a particular time and making us people of a particular time in place. And I just thought that was interesting to think about how regardless of what happens in the coming year, we are placed right here in 2020, fixing to be 2021, to be faithful, regardless of what the |
| 2:02.9 | circumstances are. And I think that's really at the core of what it means, you know, to be a |
| 2:07.0 | Christian faithfully and then also to talk about all these stories from a Christian perspective |
| 2:11.7 | faithfully. Chuck had always had a quote on his desk, which said faithfulness, not success. |
| 2:17.2 | And that's what he |
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