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Breakpoint

Is It Cheating?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Fidelity is not a line crossed; it's a direction taken.  

Transcript

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0:00.0

For the one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:04.6

As if we needed another troubling social media trend, some are now experimenting with what's called

0:08.9

microcheating and one popular microcheating game partners create hypothetical romantic and sexual situations

0:15.6

and then ask each other of certain actions like wearing another guy's sweater or paying for a female

0:20.3

co-worker's meal should be considered cheating.

0:23.6

Defenders of the game claim that it helps partners communicate more clearly

0:26.8

about expectations and boundaries and relationships.

0:29.5

But in practice, well, you might guess what can happen.

0:31.9

Not to mention, the game reduces infidelity to actions

0:35.0

instead of intentions.

0:36.4

Arguing about where the line is,

0:38.0

between cheating and not cheating

0:39.8

ignores the possibility that the line itself is the problem.

0:43.6

Just another version of the wrong question asked by millions of Christian teenagers throughout

0:48.0

the years.

0:49.0

How far is too far?

0:50.8

It's the wrong question because fidelity's not a line. It's a direction. Actions matter of course,

0:55.6

but as Jesus introduced to the world, so do our motives, our attitudes, and our intentions.

1:00.4

For the Golson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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