Should Christians use preferred pronouns or not?

What is at stake with this issue relationally and for the church in our cultural moment?

I'm here to have a conversation with a friend of mine, a Biola colleague, communications

professor, and also co-author of mine and a book called End of the stalemate.

Now this conversation came up because that book is written to talk about how to

communicate across worldview differences in the last chapter we found some

differences we had kind of flushed them out and I thought all right we see this issue differently in some

fashion let's model for people how to disagree well and ultimately just

bring some clarity on this issue that frankly there's not a lot of clarity and Grace often

taken place in how to communicate. So before we jump in, tell us what you hope to

get out of this conversation. I think, Sean, honestly, there are certain issues

that are really dividing Christians.

And I think this has become one of those.

I'm the co-director of the Winsome Conviction Project here at Biola. I can honestly say race, politics, this issue is dividing churches.

So what I hope to get is I honestly respect your opinion. I read what you wrote in our book and

the stalemate I see the wisdom and what you're arguing mhm but I think I would

treat it differently in how to have the conversation. I think you and I are going to agree on a ton, but how do you actually construct the conversation is where I think you and I will disagree a little bit.

So I honestly want what I want to hear you say is what you believe and let's have a great

conversation and ask each other questions and flesh this out.

Let's do it. I think we have some direction we want to take it, but who knows where it's gonna go?

Maybe we could just start with areas that you and I agree on and I'll give some that I think we agree on and then you can add some.

We have to agree that the Bible was the inherent word of God.

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