CNLP 645 | Jon Tyson on Secularism, Responding To The Cultural Obsession with Identity, Generational Differences in the Church, Aging Well in Leadership, Tech, AI, and Discipleship
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Jon Tyson talks about secularism and how to respond to the new obsession with identity. He discusses generational differences in the church, getting older in leadership, and what he learned from Eugene Peterson.
Plus, Jon dives into AI, technology, discipleship, and providing an alternative to the culture.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network |
| 0:02.8 | Someone had just said, I can't wait for your church |
| 0:05.7 | to rethink your sexual ethics. |
| 0:07.7 | And I was like, hey, with all due respect, |
| 0:11.2 | you think I haven't thought this through? |
| 0:13.0 | You think I'm sitting here twill on my thumbs? |
| 0:15.0 | You think when you drop something that you saw on a YouTube video |
| 0:19.0 | about the word homosexual not being in the Bible. |
| 0:23.4 | Like, I've never, oh my gosh, I've never heard that. |
| 0:27.2 | I've never heard that. |
| 0:28.2 | So again, I think there's an assumption of your ignorance. |
| 0:31.9 | They're not saying that because they're ignorant, they're saying it because they've just learned it. of your about people who are not thoughtful are holding on to positions that are harmful for others. |
| 0:47.2 | So you know it's, in secularism, there is no higher good than human flourishing. |
| 0:56.8 | And so I think a lot of the way secularism shows up |
| 1:00.3 | in Gen Z is that the ultimate goodest human flourishing. |
| 1:04.0 | And so somebody say like you're harming someone with that idea. |
| 1:08.0 | That's like the ultimate Trump card. |
| 1:10.0 | Your position does harm. |
| 1:12.0 | And so yeah, I mean this is, you know, |
| 1:16.0 | eudimony, this is like human flourishing is the highest good of life |
| 1:21.0 | and self actualization is the point of existence and that's a lot |
| 1:26.0 | better than heathenism man and it's just not the kingdom of Jesus there's something |
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