The Graduation Speech You Won't Hear This Year (Kevin DeYoung)

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In today's episode, Kevin DeYoung shares how the advice we so often get from our culture like 'be true to yourself' and 'march to the beat of your own drum' runs contrary to the gospel. Kevin DeYoung is the senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, and associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte. He has written books for children, adults, and academics, including 'Do Not Be True to Yourself: Countercultural Advice for the Rest of Your Life'. Read the full transcript of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Complete this survey for a free audiobook by Kevin DeYoung!

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0:00.0	Well, it's graduation season, and I'm sure we've all heard various graduation speeches
0:08.0	that all seem to circle around the same message. Just be true to yourself. We're all familiar
0:14.3	with this sentiment, one that's seemingly ingrained in every Disney movie we watch, every pop song
0:20.0	we listen to, and every best-selling book that we read.
0:23.6	But does this message align with what Christ calls us to when he bids us to come and die that we
0:29.5	might live for him? My guest today is Kevin DeYoung, and he argues that the last thing that God
0:35.5	wants us to do is be true to ourselves,
0:38.5	at least when it comes to our natural selves.
0:41.2	We discuss how common phrases like You Do You and Follow Your Heart
0:45.7	threaten to distort our calling as Christians and feed into several other lies that our culture is constantly proclaiming.
0:53.1	Kevin DeYoung is the senior pastor of Christ's Covenant Church
0:56.1	in Matthews, North Carolina,
0:58.2	an associate professor of systematic theology
1:00.5	at Reformed Theological Seminary.
1:03.2	He's also the author of,
1:04.7	Do Not Be True to Yourself,
1:06.4	Countercultural Advice for the rest of your life from Crossway.
1:10.1	Let's get started.
1:16.2	Well, Kevin, thank you so much for joining me again on the Crossway podcast. Great to be with you.
1:21.5	So when it comes to the issue of personal identity, how would you summarize the world's message
1:27.2	about that today?
1:29.3	Oh, there are so many unhelpful messages that the world gives us. And one of the most
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