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The Heidi St. John Podcast

Mailbox…Wednesday! Lawful, but Not Helpful

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s Mailbox Monday on a Wednesday! Should my children sleep under a dream catcher? Can we play cards? The discussions about Halloween, circumcision, and these new questions bring up good opportunities to talk about 1 Corinthians 10:23. Listen in. I think you’ll be encouraged! Show Notes: http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts/lawful-but-not-helpful



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0:00.0

Every year, at this time, I get lots and lots of questions about the behavior of Christians in the culture.

0:07.5

What is okay for a Christian to do? What is not okay for a Christian to do?

0:11.0

The Bible is very explicit on certain behaviors, and we know what it will be honoring to God because he declares what those things are in his word.

0:20.0

But there are other things that are not specifically mentioned in the Bible. In fact, lots of things that are not mentioned in the Bible.

0:25.0

And so we want to go back to 1 Corinthians 10, 23. All things are lawful, Paul wrote, but not all things are helpful.

0:32.0

All things are lawful, but not all things build up. We're going to talk about this today. You have found the Heidi St. John podcast Stick Around.

0:39.0

I think you're going to be encouraged.

0:41.0

Thank you guys for tuning into the show. I'm really enjoying reading your comments over at Spotify.

0:57.0

And so for those of you who are participating in the polls that are there, thank you for doing that.

1:01.0

It's a lot of fun for us to even when you disagree. It's a lot of fun for us to see you interacting.

1:06.0

And we're publishing those comments for other people to read. And so if you'd like to participate in the polls, head on over to Spotify.

1:14.0

You can leave comments there. Also, we really love for you to leave reviews for the show over at iTunes and let other people know what you think about it.

1:22.0

And whether or not this has been a good thing for your family. And we'd love to see those reviews published as well.

1:28.0

Well, I am going to be answering listener questions today. Normally I do that on mailbox Monday.

1:34.0

But this week, my friend Dr. Mark Sherwood joined me, which by the way, as promised, we are getting lots of fiery responses from people regarding Dr. Mark's opinion on circumcision.

1:46.0

I think it's really interesting to note. And it's important. These are important conversations to be had.

1:52.0

But we need to be respectful. We need to listen to one another. And I told him, I said, you're going to, you know, you're going to jump into some pretty deep water here because the anti-circumcision crowd is pretty fired up all the time.

2:09.0

That's what I've noticed. And so I was actually thankful that he was willing to answer that question. And thankful for the listener who wrote into ask the question.

2:17.0

We want to be able to have respectful dialogue and talk about things that may or may not be, you know, really easy to discuss, or we might have differing opinions.

2:29.0

And so I'm thankful for those of you who are continuing to write in. If you would like to weigh in on this discussion, or you have a different question for me, you can find me at hideysaintjohn.com forward slash mail box Monday.

2:43.0

I'm going to start off with a question that came from Carissa in Kansas. So, Carissa, thank you so much for writing into me. I want to read her question. She's asking about whether or not I think that dream catchers are evil. She said recently you talked about yoga.

2:58.0

And I'm curious if you have any information on dream catchers are adopted children's grandparents have one hanging in the bedroom that they sleep in whenever they're over there. And I'm scared now to let them sleep over.

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