Is My Desire to Adopt Trying to Fill a "Child-Shaped Hole" in My Heart? - BreakPoint Q&A
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field a question from a woman who is questioning her motivation to adopt as a single woman. She asks the two if her desire to adopt is to fill a "child-shaped hole" in her heart, or if she is really concerned with the betterment of their life. Additionally, she cites statistics related to children growing up without a father. She asks if it is best for her to pursue an adoption.
John and Shane also field a question from a mother regarding best practices in addressing cancel culture. She references the move to take down monuments of flawed men. Her question is how to best equip her daughters to participate lovingly in the conversation.
John and Shane begin the question and answer time working through a critique on their posture with young people leaving the church. A similar question asked for resources to equip young people to remain connected to the church.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. |
| 0:08.0 | All of these were sparked by breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've recently aired, |
| 0:13.0 | short courses we've held, and articles and columns that we've published. |
| 0:16.0 | If you want to submit a question of your own for us to tackle here on the program, |
| 0:20.0 | you can do that by emailing us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:26.0 | John, our first question this week comes from someone who's, I don't know if this question |
| 0:30.4 | has to do with a recent viral video from TikTok, from the adult son of a very popular pastor. |
| 0:53.9 | But in my mind, it's sort of associated with that because the theme of the question is, you know, why young people leave the church and then what we can do about it and where the blame really lies and how we can understand this very frustrating phenomenon as parents, as pastors, just as fellow Christians. |
| 0:55.4 | So I'll go ahead and read it. And then there's a related question that's very short, and we can really tackle them both together. So this |
| 0:59.4 | person writes in, I was just curious about your reasons young adults leave the church. What |
| 1:04.1 | research did you use, or is it just observational? This is referring back to a breakpoint, I believe. |
| 1:08.7 | It seems that the tone of your article is biased against the young church members while dismissing how the church structure may have failed the community. |
| 1:15.5 | Do you look at the reasons why how the church has failed this generation, like hypocrisy, nepotism, abuse, and misogyny, to name a few? |
| 1:22.9 | Just like with divorce, it's rarely one person's fault. |
| 1:25.4 | It takes two to form a relationship and two to |
| 1:27.5 | break it. In your course, do you cover the greater sociological factors? And then someone else writes |
| 1:32.5 | in, as a youth group leader, I'd like to know the necessary material needed to equip youth to stay |
| 1:37.4 | in faith or the church. We see the problem. We don't know how to tackle it. Please help me. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah, these are really two very different questions. I mean, the first one really is coming from |
| 1:47.4 | a pretty cynical place in terms of a breakpoint. I'm not sure I know which article he's talking to |
| 1:53.7 | because we have covered this issue on a variety of angles, which has to do both with how the church |
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