Plodcast Ep. 89 - Woke Evangelicalism, Nation of Rebels, Antidiatithemai

Plodcast

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week Pastor Wilson talks about woke evangelicalism. Then he plods on to review Andrew Potter and Joseph Heath’s book, “Nation of Rebels”. Then Pastor Wilson wraps things up by taking a look at the Greek word Antidiatithemai. Happy Plods! Show Notes: Woke Evangelicalism: By abandoning discussion of Christ and His cross we are abandoning any hope for a reconciliation A reparation movement is going to make race relations far worse Wilson is not opposed to the universal harmony that the woke are pursuing. Rather, he is opposed to misguided proposals that will make things worse Nation of Rebels: Written by Andrew Potter and Joseph Heath This book shows that the idea of counterculture in America is an illusion It shows that the counterculture is the mainstream culture There is no genuine counterculture in America today The church should become a true counterculture Antidiatithemai: Rendered as those who set themselves up in opposition Found in 2 Tim. 2:25 This native opposition is hard to overcome Paul says that it is sometimes overcome by means of meek and patient instruction

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. God don't never change.
0:17.0	Welcome to Plodcast episode 89.
0:20.0	Plodcast episode 89. If you've not noticed that's just one shy of 90. I mean, so the next time it's going to be 90.
0:29.0	I want to talk a little bit about woke evangelicals.
0:34.0	Woke evangelicals.
0:35.6	That phrase woke is come into common currency
0:42.4	in recent years,
0:43.8	describing people who have had the lights come on,
0:48.6	who have come to the realization
0:50.8	that all was not as it had appeared to them growing up.
0:55.0	Woke evangelicals are people who are all of a sudden,
0:58.0	who have all of a sudden been sensitized
1:02.0	to the plight of blacks in America or sensitized to the plight of
1:08.6	sexual minorities in America, LGBT-Q-plus types.
1:16.1	Being woke means being sensitized
1:20.4	to all the grief that women have to put up with etc.
1:25.0	So woke evangelical and it's it's very easy for woke evangelicals to say well this is just golden rule stuff or this is just
1:35.5	this is basic Bible stuff you know we need to be nice we and we need to be nicer and we need to be nice having come to our senses, having seen or becoming woke to the consequences of slavery in America or the consequences of all the years of Jim Crow and so on.
1:59.0	Now, on one level, every Christian who's got a sense of decency at all has to applaud the idea,
2:11.6	at least the idea in the abstract, of reconciling groups that are hostile
2:16.3	to each other or removing tensions between groups that are in tension or solving problems that are experienced as problems by people on both sides
2:29.8	of a divide.
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