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Breakpoint

Is the Church Really A Representative of God Right Now?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

John and Shane walk through a challenging question related to perceived impressions that the church is slipping into moral deism. A Colson Fellow asked about John's Bene-Kuyper option, blending the Benedict Option and Kuyper's view of culture engagement. 

Another Colson Fellow asked John and Shane to explain how to engage a pastor and encourage a church that doesn't see the need to participate in conversations in the culture. The Fellow mentioned there is a growing fear the church could "lose our witness to the lost".

To close, John is asked how believers should respond in the wake of the Ravi Zacharias report. When pastors, priests, and teachers fall morally, how should bewildered Christians move forward? 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center.

0:06.0

I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street answering your worldview questions.

0:10.0

All of these are questions that were sparked by breakpoint commentaries, short courses, articles, or columns that we've posted recently.

0:18.0

If you'd like to send in a question of your own, you can do that by emailing us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, we get so many great questions

0:27.1

here. I've just been amazed at how this podcast has taken off and the way we've, our audience has,

0:33.1

you know, gotten us to talk about and think about so many great issues here on the program.

0:39.4

Yeah, we get it from a lot of different sources.

0:41.4

A lot of the questions today, for example, come from a Colson Fellows session that I spoke

0:48.6

at on Saturday for one of our regional cohorts.

0:51.7

And the questions were unbelievable, and they poured in.

0:54.2

And we didn't have nearly enough time to get to all of them.

0:56.5

So we're going to pick up a couple of those today.

1:00.0

But that kind of responsiveness.

1:02.1

And by the way, we love the questions that even question us, like, right, that say,

1:06.2

you got this wrong.

1:07.6

So I've already been seeing a couple on our take on Michelle Foucault from earlier in the

1:12.1

week. And so maybe we can come back to some of those a little bit later for all the postmodernism

1:16.7

nerds in the audience. But the responsiveness has been incredible on another commentary. And I wanted

1:23.7

to just take a minute at the beginning here and thank people for supporting Jack Phillips.

1:30.1

We talked about Jack in a breakpoint commentary and talked about how many people know his name from the Masterpiece Cake Shop Supreme Court decision.

1:38.5

We spent a lot of time talking about that case.

1:40.8

What many people don't know is that the day the court decided to take that

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