Do We Throw Out the Teaching of Leaders in Scandals - BreakPoint Q&A
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane revisit a topic from the New Years Eve podcast to address moral failure in Christian leaders. They help expand our thinking to address the challenging world of sin and its impact on Christian leaders.
Specifically, John and Shane address the revelations from the independent investigation into allegations of Ravi Zacharrias participating in sexual misconduct.
Later, John and Shane address a critique to their response to invetro fertilization and embryo adoption. The two dig into the details of the science, ethical, and culture reasoning around the Christian worldview response they are positing.
Lastly, Shane presents a question related to second marriages. The question comes in light of the presentation of marriage as a procreative endeavor. They address a Christian view of marriage that is expansive, including marriages that are infertile. They include various Christian thinking on marriage, explaining nuances in Biblical interpretations without falling into a secular view of marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. These questions are based on Breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've aired on short courses that we've held and articles and columns we've posted. If you want to submit a question of your own, you can email us at ask the Colson |
| 0:21.4 | Center at colsoncenter.org. And I want to wish all of our listeners a happy new year. We're |
| 0:27.2 | opening up a really new vista here. And John, we just got out of a meeting that was super |
| 0:32.0 | encouraging for me. You talked about what a big deal this podcast has been to many of our listeners, |
| 0:37.2 | the way we've gotten positive |
| 0:38.8 | feedback about the Q&A podcast, about the way we're engaging in questions here. |
| 0:43.6 | And it just made me want to say thank you to our listeners as we begin a new year for |
| 0:47.0 | engaging with us, sending these questions in, thinking deeply about these issues. |
| 0:51.4 | And I can say 100% honesty. |
| 0:53.2 | It has forced me to get more specific |
| 0:56.0 | and thoughtful with the way I talk about and write about all of these issues. It's created |
| 1:00.9 | a dialogue at the Colson Center rather than a monologue. And I wasn't expecting necessarily |
| 1:06.0 | that big of a change in tone and culture just in my day-to-day work. And I appreciate it. So I'm excited |
| 1:14.5 | about this. I mean, overwhelmed by how many questions we get and not many questions, but just |
| 1:20.4 | feedback. And I also want to offer a big thank you to those who not only ask us questions and |
| 1:26.9 | engage, but who pray. So many gave at the end |
| 1:30.0 | of the year, overwhelmed by the support for the Colson Center and the things that they point out. |
| 1:36.1 | And yeah, it's very encouraging. And this is a lot of fun. I mean, I used to do so much of this |
| 1:41.1 | speaking at youth camps or, you know, at our friends at Summit Ministries, sit |
| 1:45.6 | on the front porch and let's have at it, you know. |
| 1:47.8 | When you're constrained, as I often am, by three and a half minutes on breakpoint, on |
| 1:54.0 | a commentary, or even worse, 54 seconds, like on the point, which is about 100 people often ask. It's about 170 words, |
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