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Welcome to questions and ethics with Russell Moore, where we apply the Gospel of the

kingdom to cultural issues and your questions about the Christian life. Today's question is, how should a pastor address cultural issues from the pulpit?

One of the things that I hope to see us change is there are some people for instance who will address abortion when it's sanctity of human life day

They'll address some of these issues, but they'll address them only topically and all together.

Now I think that a Christian citizenship on 4th of July, something like that.

That's fine and appropriate to have those special emphasis days and I think it's good to step back and say

okay today we're going to talk about racial reconciliation because it's

racial reconciliation Sunday or something like that but that can't be all that we do.

We have to be as we're preaching through the text, we have to

apply the text, which means we're coming through and we're saying, where are my

people not seeing this, what does, how does this apply to? So for instance, one of the things I'm convicted about is that

when it comes to the issue of abortion, that the devil is working in one of two ways, deception and accusation.

So what he wants to do is to say to that young woman

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