Exvangelicals vs. Atheist Admirers
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
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Staying focused on Christ in the upside-down world of social media proclamations.
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| 0:00.0 | With the point |
| 0:04.3 | recently on culture from a Christian worldview. I'm John Stone Street with the point. Recently on X Dan Darling tweeted an interesting observation about an oddity of our |
| 0:08.7 | time, quote, it's fascinating to see ex-Angelicals decry a Christian ethic at the same time many atheists are seeing |
| 0:15.2 | its necessity. |
| 0:16.2 | It's like two ships passing in the night. |
| 0:17.9 | And you know he's right. |
| 0:18.8 | There are two contradictory phenomena happening right now, at least on social media. |
| 0:22.5 | On one hand, a collection of former evangelical pastors and influencers denouncing basic |
| 0:27.4 | Christian teaching and morality as being harmful. |
| 0:29.7 | On the other hand, a group of non-believers, think Tom Holland, Ian Hershey, |
| 0:33.8 | Lee, Jordan Peters and even Richard Dawkins recently, rediscovering and |
| 0:37.5 | proclaiming the importance of Christian teaching and morality even if they don't |
| 0:41.0 | personally believe it and the key takeaway for Christians is that we need to take our cues from Christ, |
| 0:46.0 | not the constantly changing popular opinions of a culture that is adrift. |
| 0:50.0 | Of course, many will consider what we believe in how we live somewhere between odd and evil. |
| 0:55.0 | But staying weird, as Holland put it, may be our very best bet. |
| 1:00.0 | For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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