S2:002 Genesis 2
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Emma Dotter is in the podcast studio today helping us build a clear, biblical foundation to stand on in a world that is constantly shifting sands beneath our feet. It is vital for believers to have an accurate and truthful biblical worldview, this helps us stand firm on the Word when facing worldly pressures and trends. We are discussing this importance of this concerning marriage and gender specifically today but this foundation serves us in all areas of our walk with a perfect God in an imperfect world.
Today's Challenge: Are you swayed by the ways/views of the worldly culture around you, or are you anchored firmly in the ways and word of God?
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast |
| 0:05.7 | with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. In today's chapter, Genesis 2, God |
| 0:13.0 | institutes marriage, marriage between a man and a woman. But in today's culture, how should |
| 0:19.9 | believers respond when our culture challenges, if not outright, |
| 0:23.6 | condemns God's design? |
| 0:26.6 | Back in 2019, the Pew Research Center conducted a study on attitudes surrounding same-sex |
| 0:32.6 | marriage. |
| 0:33.6 | And simply put, as anyone with access to the internet can very clearly see, support for same-sex marriage in our culture has only increased. |
| 0:43.2 | They found that in 2019, 61% of Americans supported same-sex marriage, and this number had been trending up into the right for 15 years prior. |
| 0:53.4 | Now, almost five years later, |
| 0:56.2 | I can only imagine what the approval rating is today. The Pew Research Center also did a study |
| 1:02.0 | on preferred pronouns in 2019, again, less than five years ago. And at this time, 39% of Americans |
| 1:09.3 | had never even heard of someone choosing their preferred pronouns, |
| 1:13.9 | and 42% of Americans never knew of anyone who'd request they'd use specific pronouns when referring to them, |
| 1:20.7 | which means back in 2019, less than five years ago, roughly 82% of Americans were incredibly unfamiliar with this concept. |
| 1:30.3 | Today, companies require employees to put their preferred pronouns in their email signatures. |
| 1:37.3 | Throughout the month of June, businesses carry the pride flag with confidence and believers are in the minority if they hold to a biblical worldview. |
| 1:45.8 | Our culture is consistently changing, and when it comes to God's institution of marriage back in |
| 1:51.9 | Genesis, it's going to be of increasing importance that we as believers not only deeply understand |
| 1:58.6 | what we believe, but also know how to lovingly and truthfully engage with a watching world that is whether they know it or not, desperate for Jesus. Today, I'm going to spend some time in Genesis 1 and 2 as we discuss God's design for men and women and why both the man and the women |
| 2:20.4 | are of equal value to God. To begin this discussion, I want to make sure we have a clear |
| 2:28.4 | theological foundation. When we think about people, in general, what do we need to make sure we know? Number one, what is our |
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