Thanks for listening to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center.

My name is Wayne Stender product manager here at Breakpoint, and today we have a special treat for you where John Stone Street and Os Guinness answer a host of questions from our recent Wilberforce weekend event in May.

John and Oz are on stage answering questions from Michael

Craven and the Colson Fellows regarding what we should do, how Christians should live in this

current cultural moment. Here's John Stone Street leading the Q&A segment with Os Guinness.

You know, we're talking a lot about redemption. We're talking a lot about a fast-changing culture. We're trying to

connect these two things. And it just seems like at the heart of so much of this is something

that has plagued the church for a really long time. And that's just this kind of radical

privatization of faith. Faith is about me and Jesus. It's not really about life outside of it.

And just hearing Dr. Sunshine, just that image of Jesus is,

when Jesus, the kingdom is like 11, it just goes, you know.

And a lot of that, we don't have any control over.

But that's also not an excuse for us to kind of think about

faith as just being kind of us

and Jesus.

But is that still as big of a problem as it used to be?

It's as big as ever.

In other words, it goes back to the Enlightenment and what scholars call secularization.

So when faith is made less meaningful and more marginal, it has one place

that it's safe, the private, and the spiritual. And so, I'm talking tonight, you've asked me to talk

about redemption. That's being made spiritual and private. Whereas it should be something public in as far

as people do wrongs publicly and together and so on. But that's 200 years, that movement, that trend.

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