Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We have a special topic today. Actually, it's some of you may have read this before, but it's a piece I wrote earlier in the year and I felt like right now it would be appropriate to read

it again to you because the Lottie Moon offering, this is, again this is for Southern

Baptist, I know some of you PCA guys and people in other

denominations say, why don't you focus on my denomination? And I do have some plans actually to do some

PCA type stuff. But I already had this and it just this morning I woke up I'll tell you why I

thought of this in a minute but I something happened that sparked in my mind you know I

have that peace and we're right at the time where that Lottie Moon offering

in the Southern Baptist churches is going to be taken up, the Lottie Moon Christmas offering

for missions.

And so I wanted you to hear this piece that I have and it should really I'll link it as well.

If you want to share the text version with friends, you can share that but it's it's just

interesting to me the long and short of it is cancel culture eats into just

about everything but why not the lot of moon Christmas offering why is

that not something that Southern Baptist want to cancel and the reason is I

think because it brings in a lot of money and it has for many years and there are many if you start

thinking about it I think you'll probably come up with other examples even in the

national civil discourse etc things that aren't canceled and you're like, why are those things not

canceled? They're canceled when it becomes convenient for those who are in power, it seems.

And in California, you know, I was just reading this morning a culmination of things happened this morning, but I was reading there is a school out I think it was in the San Francisco area. I don't think it was in San Francisco but outside somewhere.

It was an Abraham Lincoln High School. It was named after Lincoln and got to change the name of that

high school. Now for me I'm living in Virginia right now this is

happening all over Virginia I mean in ways that are just renaming lakes I mean

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