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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 273 - A Christian Perspective on Taylor Swift

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ray, E.Z., and Oscar jump into the controversial topic of Taylor Swift’s music. Secular music is not completely off the table for Christians, but caution and conviction are essential. There’s latitude within the faith that allows for engagement with secular music, yet it’s crucial to examine the foundations of these choices and be open to sharpening each other’s understanding. The devotion to Taylor Swift is a phenomenon. Humans are inherently worshipful, and for the secular world, concerts ...

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She's still singing songs that ultimately look inside of herself and finds herself as the antihero.

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And then tries to celebrate that, tries to demand the world accept her for who she is. And the beauty of the gospel,

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because here's the thing I think those young girls they listen to that and they

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sense all of their own insecurities, they sense all of their own

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depravity and there's this like

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Wow can I just be depraved and accepted can I demand the world accept me for who I am

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But there's something so much more beautiful

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about the gospel. The gospel is this is that God that you are known by God so much more than you could ever imagine and you are more

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fallen than you could ever imagine but also through the cross you are more loved and forgiven than you can ever possibly imagine.

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And one of the things that ultimately, like she actually sings you are what you love which is very

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a gustinian of her because a gustin pointed out

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Augustine there you go a gustin pointed out that ultimately we are primarily

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loving creatures and that the problem the reason why we sin is because we love the wrong

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things at the wrong times in the wrong way and what the gospel does when God

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changes our hearts is that he re-ordered our loves to love God first and then

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to love our neighbor as our self.

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Where expressive individualism would be love yourself first and then demand everybody loves you second.

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That's the gospel. That's the false gospel of expressive individualism. I think the gospel of

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I think the gospel we find in the scriptures is so much better, so much more freeing than

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letting your desires rule your life.

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Wow. My life. My own. Friends, Ray Comfort has taught me many things over the course of my life. He taught me how to hurt myself. He's taught me how to break things.

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He's taught me how to evangelize but most importantly friends Ray Comfort has taught me a fact of life and that is

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