Not Beyond Reach - Understanding the Secular Culture, Part 2
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
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Summary
Are you struggling to keep up with all the trending worldviews and pop culture beliefs that are out there? Well, in this program, our guest teacher Aaron Pierce will give us some help as he picks up in his series, Not Beyond Reach. Learn the primary influences and philosophies of young people today and how seeing the world through their eyes helps us better connect with them.
Main PointsThree key realities to engage post-Christian culture:
- Secular people have become suspicious of religious institutions and are far less likely to walk into a church.
- Secular people today do not have the same assumptions as previous generations.
- Secular people are open to spirituality.
Four key influences on global youth culture:
- Entertainment Industry (Music, film, theater, sports)
- Internet Stars via social media platforms.
- Video Games (is bigger than Hollywood where the average 21 year old male has spent 10,000 hours playing video games).
- Pornography is a pervasive and unashamedly part of many daily routines. Sexuality is just a personal pursuit of happiness; harmless.
Philosophical pillars:
- Secularism – Faith is private and not meant to be pushed on others.
- Relativism – There is no absolute moral truth.
- Acceptance – Tolerance is not enough, you must affirm.
Four big worldview questions:
- Origin – Where did life come from? How did life begin?
- Morality – What is right and wrong and who decides?
- Purpose – What is the purpose of life?
- Destiny – What happens after we die?
Predominant worldview:
- Secular Humanism – the religion of self. The idea is that God has been replace, man is at the center, and there’s no outside authority that can tell me how to live my life. The key to happiness is found within.
- What should our response be?- Nehemiah 1:4; 1 Corinthians 4:20; 1 Thessalonians 2:8
- Nancy Pearcey - "Love Thy Body"
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you struggling to keep up with all the trending world views and pop culture |
| 0:06.0 | beliefs that are out there? Do you want to have a meaningful conversation with a |
| 0:09.4 | friend or a child or even a grandchild but you don't know where to begin? Well |
| 0:14.3 | today we're going to help you connect with your kids and grandkids by seeing the |
| 0:19.6 | world through their eyes and then knowing how to start the conversation. Stay with me. |
| 0:30.4 | Thanks for joining us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip and |
| 0:34.9 | Grim. Chip's our Bible teacher for this international discipleship ministry |
| 0:39.0 | focused on helping Christians live like Christians. Well in just a minute we'll |
| 0:43.4 | pick up in our new series Not Beyond Reach taught by our guest teacher Aaron |
| 0:47.5 | Pierce. Today he'll remind us of the main influences shaping the hearts and |
| 0:51.7 | minds of today's youth, how those ideas inform what young people believe. Well |
| 0:56.6 | there's a ton of good content to get to. So let's join Aaron now for the remainder |
| 1:00.6 | of his talk, Understanding the Secular Culture. Well there's basically four key |
| 1:06.2 | influences. First is entertainment industry. So music, film, theater, even sports |
| 1:13.1 | to some degree. And the idea here is that we're not just entertaining, we're |
| 1:18.3 | shaping a worldview. We're presenting a way of looking at the world, a moral |
| 1:23.5 | framework. And so you see that being pushed to the entertainment entertainment |
| 1:28.1 | industry. And then you've got internet stars, you know people that are on |
| 1:33.3 | platforms like TikTok and Instagram and YouTube that are producing content and |
| 1:38.0 | and connecting with audiences all over the world in a massive way, right? It's |
| 1:43.3 | incredible the kind of influence that these people are having and the I say |
| 1:47.6 | unfiltered because it is filtered. But there's no corporation, there's no |
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