Cultural Counterfeits (with Jen Oshman)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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What does the Bible have to say to a culture obsessed with body image, hookup sex, abortion and alternative sexualities? Jen Oshman identifies the empty promises the culture has made to us, especially women, and gives us a way forward that is faithful to the gospel. Join Scott and Sean for this interview, in which Jen also suggests that even marriage and motherhood can become idols making empty promises. Jen Oshman is a former missionary to Japan and the Czech Republic and now is ...

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0:00.0	What are some of the biggest cultural counterfeits today?
0:05.0	What are some of the top empty promises of our age
0:08.0	that Christians need to understand, identify, and avoid?
0:12.0	These are some of the questions we are going to explore today with our guest, Jen Aushman,
0:16.8	author of Cultural Counterfeits.
0:19.3	I'm Sean McDowell.
0:20.5	I'm Scott Ray.
0:21.8	And this is Think Biblically from tablet school theology
0:24.5	Biola University Jen we want to jump right into your excellent book and I'm
0:29.2	curious the title why why you call it cultural counterfeits and why you bother to call out certain
0:37.8	counterfeits, aren't you afraid that you might offend some people?
0:41.8	Wow, yes, that's a great first question.
0:44.5	And I asked myself that question very many times
0:47.8	as I was writing the book.
0:48.8	Why bother doing this?
0:50.0	Because it was sort of a taxing project stressful project for sure.
0:55.0	But having been in women's ministry now for over 20 years as well as being the mother of four
1:01.1	daughters and just really invested in women's ministry in the lives of women.
1:05.2	I have seen so much harm and shrapnel at the hands of cultural counterfeits.
1:09.6	Or you might call them idols, you might call them empty promises of our age.
1:13.0	They're the things that our culture says,
1:15.0	you've got to have this, you know, do this to enjoy life,
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