Is the Constitution Actually Functioning? - BreakPoint Q&A
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🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane address a main question about whether or not the constitution is actually functioning? They identify how the Constitution reflects the design by God. John highlights that a consistent theme from the founding fathers and founding documents is that it is made for a type of person.
John and Shane then spend time fielding a listener question on the design of men and women. The two spend time explaining what men and women are designed to do and then highlight how they are equipped to live according to their design. They address the brokenness of the world, noting that humanity was created before it was fallen, but fallen is the state we're living in and our cultural realities illuminate that reality. They end in hope in Christ, reflecting on other times in history that times were bleak and cultures wholly broken, but God made His name known, evident, and provides salvation for humanity.
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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 to answer your questions. These questions are |
| 0:10.3 | based on breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've aired recently, short courses that we've held |
| 0:15.6 | in articles and columns we've posted. And if you want to submit a question of your own, you can do that by emailing us at ask the Colson Center at colson center.org. |
| 0:26.4 | John, this headline came from the Babylon B a while back. I forget when it was, maybe during the election, but it's just so applicable to the attitude that many of us are so tempted to adopt now that a new administration is coming in. |
| 0:39.8 | It went like this, new Bible feature removes Romans 13 for when you don't like the president. |
| 0:46.2 | And isn't that true? |
| 0:47.2 | I mean, the punchline of it all, though, is that Paul wrote Romans 13 under a government that was, you know, pretty far cry from what we'd call |
| 0:56.1 | the ideal of liberty and protecting individual rights and so forth. And yet it's still |
| 1:02.4 | applied in some very significant way. And I guess our job is as good readers of the Bible is to |
| 1:08.3 | figure out exactly how that applies and where the lines are and |
| 1:11.5 | stuff. But, you know, obviously on the heels of what happened last Wednesday, we're getting |
| 1:16.4 | a lot of questions from people who want to know how to approach this, you know, not just from the |
| 1:22.0 | standpoint of, you know, how do I vote and how do I submit to the government, as Romans 13 says, |
| 1:27.2 | but not just from the standpoint of, you know, how do I submit to the government as Romans 13 says, but not just from the |
| 1:28.2 | standpoint of, you know, how do I submit to the ruling authorities as Romans 13 says, but what should |
| 1:33.2 | be my attitude in the midst of it? You know, what kinds of policy should I be pushing for? Should I even |
| 1:38.3 | have the idea that this government is legitimate, that I should be, you know, submitting. And when does |
| 1:45.1 | constitutional order break down? There was one question in particular that we got here. And I think |
| 1:50.2 | you had a thought here real quickly, John. Well, yeah, I just want people to understand. I understand |
| 1:54.4 | the difficulty, right? Because it's even different, I think, from the first readers of Paul's |
| 1:59.6 | exhortation in Romans 13, because, you know, |
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