Should Believers Withdraw or Engage? (with Jeremy Vuolo)
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Owen Strachan is joined by Jeremy Vuolo, a Shepherd at Grace Community Church, explores the topic of cultural engagement and the balance between enjoying life and addressing the brokenness of the world. Owen and Jeremy delve into the idea of Christian maturity and discernment in engaging with various aspects of the world. The discussion also touches on the concept of common grace and the importance of not allowing the darkness of the world to overshadow the joy and happiness in life.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2024. There's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world. Are you supposed to boycott every company that puts out something negative? Can you have a Netflix account? Can you go to Disney World? We are really into it already in |
| 0:23.2 | the opening minute of Grace and Truth. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Owen Strand and I will be |
| 0:28.3 | your host. I am joined today by my dear friend Jeremy Wolo. He is involved in college ministry at |
| 0:34.4 | Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, California. He works for the MacArthur |
| 0:38.0 | Center for Expository Preaching at the Master Seminary, and he's an all-around Ninja. Welcome to the |
| 0:44.1 | podcast, Jeremy. Thanks for having me. I'm glad to be back. I don't know where Ninja came from. Have you |
| 0:50.5 | ever done any martial arts training, be honest be honest no but i played ninja with my brother |
| 0:54.8 | and sister as a kid and my sister kicked me in the head and gave me a concussion and told me not to |
| 0:58.4 | run inside so that's a pretty core memory i don't know how to respond to that wow yeah yeah she |
| 1:04.8 | i was like bleeding from a nose she's like don't tell mom and dad i'm like i think i'm gonna tell |
| 1:08.0 | mom and dad in the scale of don't tell mom and dad, that's pretty up there. Yeah. So I think something's wrong. I'm going to go tell my parents. I could be medically, our parents. Our parents. I could be medically in a bad place in about five minutes here. Yeah. We're all thankful you went in and told mom and dad just so you know. Yeah. Gosh. |
| 1:28.4 | Good job. |
| 1:29.3 | Thanks. |
| 1:29.8 | Okay. |
| 1:30.6 | Okay. |
| 1:37.0 | That aside, that moment aside, what I want to engage with you on this episode is quite simply engagement because here's the deal, Jeremy. |
| 1:40.5 | 20 years ago, 10 years ago, when I was kind of a young guy in evangelicalism and the reform |
| 1:47.1 | movement and all those kind of worlds, conservative evangelicalism. |
| 1:51.3 | The cool thing was to engage the culture. |
| 1:55.0 | There was a ton of discussion about this. |
| 1:56.6 | There were a lot of books about this. |
| 1:58.9 | The idea was to enter the world and be salt and light in it. |
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