My Son is Living With His Girlfriend. How Can I Correctly Encourage and Pray? - BreakPoint Q&A
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field questions ranging from how an adult can love her family that is challenging her decision not to vaccinate. The adult's brothers and sisters are saying she doesn't love her parents well because of her decision. John and Shane discuss the ongoing false dichotomies our culture creates.
John then responds to concern from parents regarding their adult son who is currently living with his girlfriend. The girlfriend isn't a follower of Jesus and said she wants to "test drive" living together before entering marriage. John and Shane provide encouragement for the parents as they navigate challenging waters.
To close Shane asks John for some grade school Sunday school resources on behalf of a budding worldview teacher. John gives a pathway for the teacher to provide a good base of worldview training for the students.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint. I'm joined as always by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of breakpoint. And we're here to answer your questions. And all of these, of course, were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, |
| 0:21.4 | and the Colson Fellows program. If you'd like to send us a question to talk about here on the show, |
| 0:26.6 | drop us an email at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, we're coming off one of the |
| 0:32.9 | coolest Wilberforce weekends that I can remember having. And I really got to say the stories from people who listen to this podcast and to |
| 0:42.3 | upstream and to strong women. |
| 0:44.3 | And the way that they talk about enjoying these things and being blessed by them just really |
| 0:50.3 | blew me away and humbled me. |
| 0:52.3 | It's very easy, I think, during a pandemic, to think that your words are just disappearing into the ether, you know, when you record day after day. |
| 1:00.0 | But they're not. People really take this stuff seriously. And I feel the weight of that responsibility. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, people are making decisions in part based on what we're saying on this podcast. And it reminds me also that |
| 1:12.2 | our job here, my job, your job, is not to really give people prepackaged answers, but to |
| 1:18.4 | catalyze good Christian thinking, you know, to help people to think as Christians about all |
| 1:24.1 | of life. And that's, it's a huge responsibility, but it's also a huge honor. |
| 1:28.2 | So I want to say, I appreciate that tangible demonstration and so many conversations I had |
| 1:33.4 | with people this past weekend. |
| 1:34.6 | It was. |
| 1:35.6 | It was a great weekend. |
| 1:37.1 | And our biggest ever, I can't remember an event that the Colson Center hosted that was |
| 1:41.8 | that size, but at the same the, at the same time, |
| 1:44.6 | it wasn't just the size. It was just the level of engagement, you know, 400 and, I want to say, |
| 1:52.7 | over 450 Colson Fellows commissioned 300 of whom were with us walking across the stage. |
| 2:00.4 | The experience Saturday night of honoring Bob |
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