Does Censorship Strangle Christian Witness? - Ask BreakPoint
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane are asked how Christians can remain faithful with culture pressuring for compliance. A doctor and a parent have similar questions related to recognizing gender transitions. John provides a structure to think and live in challenging times.
Another listener writes in to ask how Christians should respond with censorship challenging opportunities to live life with a Christian perspective. Shane provides some hard truths that provide an understanding on how Christians can move forward in the face of opposition.
To close John engages the recent developments with online trading and financial markets. He pulls back from the issue to identify the root causes of sin and how we're seeing brokenness on display in the tumult of the financial markets.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. All of these were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've recently aired, short courses we've held, and articles and columns we've published. And if you want to submit a question of your own, you can email us at |
| 0:21.1 | Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, I have a question for you before we start |
| 0:27.1 | out today from me. To what extent do you think being a dad and having kids? Now, no, I'm just |
| 0:34.4 | going to spring this on you here because I want to know the answer. I'm my oldest is eight and I'm just moving into the territory that you're in kind of as a dad. |
| 0:41.2 | And so I want to know, to what extent has your experience as a dad prepared you for answering Q&A questions on a podcast? |
| 0:50.6 | And then follow up. |
| 0:51.9 | What's the craziest question your kids have ever asked you? |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, man, you have to give me some time to think through that. Hunter asked me a different |
| 0:58.5 | question every day. It might be that, you know, he's, you know, we went from having kind of, |
| 1:04.5 | you know, preteens to, you know, a toddler. And so, and from girls to a boy, so it just changes everything. Look, I get asked |
| 1:13.0 | parenting questions all the time and I'm always like, I'm not old enough to ask this. I have so |
| 1:17.5 | much grace for parents. I feel like we're just making stuff up half the time and you want to have |
| 1:22.0 | some really good advice, but I always say if you want advice like that, go ask some old people. |
| 1:26.6 | But I have been asked some pretty crazy questions across the board. |
| 1:31.4 | We're at that point, though. |
| 1:32.3 | I tell you, that's a lot of fun, is we have a lot of great theological and cultural discussions around the table. |
| 1:38.5 | Yeah, it's fun. |
| 1:39.5 | And what the funny part is, is like it can get really profound, like, either about the election or about, you know, some of the issues of culture. And then Hunter will just weigh in with his |
| 1:48.9 | opinion and usually has something to do with superheroes and Avengers and nothing to do with |
| 1:54.9 | anything else. Yeah, my son this week asked me a really profound theological question. |
| 2:01.3 | He was watching this nature documentary about the Polynesian islands, I think. |
| 2:07.0 | And he sees this lava, you know, all that viscous lava just coming down the hillside. |
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