Hey, everyone. This is Tony where you can pop a confetti popper because on Saturday, this

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today's episode, which starts right now. We have a culture question from a pastor who asks this

pastor, John. Hello. In a recent TGC podcast, Sam Albury said the following thing about

campus outreach ministry. He said this quote, people have often thought Christianity was a bit

quaint. You know, they're there. You've got your little faith kind of thing. But increasingly,

what we're seeing in a more secular context as people saying to us is actually your faith is a

danger to society. And that's new space for us. And we're not used to being looked down on and

slightly patronized. I don't think we're used to feeling like we are the enemy. People

used to say I don't like Christianity because it's too moral. Now they're saying I don't like

Christianity because it's too immoral. And whether it's people saying Christianity is responsible for

gay teenagers committing suicide or for fostering intolerance, those arguments carry far more

emotional force than some of the previous objections I would have dealt with 10 or 15 years ago.

In quote. So here's my question, Pastor John. Christianity started out as a powerful minority

voice in culture. But at times in history and today in America, evangelicalism is a major cultural

voice and possibly a deciding factor in the 2020 presidential election. So how do we respond

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