E243 | Faith vs. Culture: What’s Okay and What’s Not?

The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown

Sandals Church

Deconstruction, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Culture, Faith, Christianity

5 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode of The Debrief Podcast, Matthew Stephen Brown and Donna Martin discuss how restriction can be a blessing, and if you can sin by gambling or getting tattoos. This episode contains some adult themes and may not be suitable for younger audiences.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown.
0:06.7	This episode contains content about marriage and sex that might not be suitable for some younger listeners.
0:12.2	Parental discretion is advised.
0:18.7	Welcome back to the debrief podcast with Pastor Matthew Stephen Brown.
0:22.3	How you doing?
0:22.9	It is so good to be with you guys.
0:24.1	Hey, we are so glad to be here.
0:26.2	And thank you for sending in questions.
0:28.3	We love reading them.
0:29.2	We love hearing what Pastor Matt has to say about all these amazing topics.
0:32.9	We get stuff about everything.
0:34.1	Family, live, career, theology.
0:36.9	I mean, whatever is on your heart, we want to
0:39.3	hear it and we'd love to hear your perspective on it. All right, this is Carolina from Montclair,
0:44.1	California. How does fasting work? What are the guidelines and its purpose? Yeah, so let's start
0:50.0	with its purpose and then we'll go to its guidelines. So the purpose of fasting is to deny oneself
0:57.2	from good things. So as Christians, right, we are always fasting from bad things. So fasting from
1:05.5	sin, cutting things off, you know, from, from, you know, sexual sin, you know, maybe if we have an eating problem,
1:12.6	maybe if anger, whatever, like we're, we're identifying it, we're cutting off, we're killing
1:17.0	it. So fasting is not the elimination of sin. Fasting is really the acceptance of, okay, I'm going
1:25.0	to be disciplined in this area, and I'm going to say no to good
1:28.2	things for the purpose of growing closer to God. So sometimes you fast from sweet. So that's the
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