Disability, Suffering, and Struggle: The Church's Witness in a Culture of Convenience
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Suffering in Christ is different.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wonder how we arrived at a cultural moment when morality and identity are defined not by objective truth, but by individual feelings and desires. |
| 0:11.0 | For a limited time, we're bringing back two of our most popular resources that address this |
| 0:16.4 | very question. |
| 0:18.0 | Carl Truman's Strange New World and Michael Wards After Humanity, both of which come with exclusive digital content to help guide your reading. |
| 0:27.0 | Truman looks at how our culture became hyper-focused on individualism and offers hope for how the church can respond. |
| 0:34.3 | In After Humanity, CS Lewis scholar Michael Ward guides readers through one of Lewis's most |
| 0:39.8 | important but challenging works, the abolition of man, whether morality is objective or not. |
| 0:46.2 | As a thank you for supporting the Ministry of the Colson Center this month, we'll send |
| 0:50.4 | you the book of your choice, with bonus digital content to expand your learning experience. |
| 0:56.0 | Give today at CoulsonCenter.org slash September. Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of |
| 1:07.7 | unchanging truth. |
| 1:08.7 | For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
| 1:12.9 | Where there may be no category of life more alien to the secular progressive mind than the idea |
| 1:18.7 | of suffering well. |
| 1:20.5 | From our policies to our movies to the various and sundry ways we invest in our own comforts, |
| 1:25.6 | the dominant assumption in our world is that suffering is irredeemable, it's worthless, |
| 1:30.9 | it's to be avoided at all cost, even at the cost of life itself. |
| 1:35.0 | That's the thinking behind, for example, doctor-assisted suicide. |
| 1:39.0 | But a test of a worldview is whether or not it's big enough to handle such things as sickness, disability, |
| 1:45.7 | and the scorn of a culture. |
| 1:47.3 | It's also, by the way, the test of a church. |
| 1:49.5 | Several years ago in the Washington Post, sociologist Andrew Whitehead described the struggle |
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