Good day and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Thursday, October 5th,

2023. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum, co-founder and CEO,

Dr. Jim Denison. The Forbes 400 is out, listing the wealthiest Americans in 2023, and unless you're worth $2.9 billion, you're not on it.

Here's another reason to feel excluded. According to a recent Barna survey, only a third of young adults are more likely to support a nonprofit-profit organization with Christian values.

Nearly the same percentage said having Christian values would make them less interested in supporting a

nonprofit. This, after a Texas LGBTQ advocacy group claimed a federal judge cannot be

fair and impartial because of his Christian beliefs. And 47% of adults in an

Associated Press survey said liberals have a lot of freedom to express their views on college

campuses, while just 20% said the same of conservatives. Yesterday, we discussed the urgency of

declaring and defending biblical sexual morality,

not just because it's biblical, but because our creator's principles are best for every person he creates.

The more our culture rejects biblical beliefs, the more urgently we need to share them.

The sicker the patient, the more urgent the treatment.

Here's the problem.

It is human nature when facing opposition and rejection to oppose and reject those we face.

The fight or flight response is our automatic physiological reaction to events that are perceived as stressful or frightening.

Psychologists say this response increases our chances of survival

in threatening situations, but it is precisely the wrong way for Christians to respond to our

cultural opponents. And it is precisely the way our spiritual enemy wants us to react to them.

When Jesus drew near to Jerusalem, knowing that its

people would reject him and the city would be destroyed as a consequence, we read in Luke 19,

verse 41, he wept over it. When Paul addressed the Ephesian elders, he told them in Acts 20,

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