Well, good afternoon and happy new year. It is the last day of 2024 and it is a beautiful day here in upstate New York.

It is unseasonly warm. You both yesterday and today, it's probably 46 degrees or so, which for me means I can come outside in shorts. That's how acclimated I am. But I wanted to make

this video because I wanted to share with you a thought. I have an addendum to the discussion of

biblical separation that I made yesterday on the podcast. And that addendum is this. I was thinking about

the new Christian right, if you want to call them that. I guess I would be part of that. And some of the things that we're navigating, some of the challenges and the associations that are forming because of meeting those challenges. And I've seen people say that the new Christian right or Christian nationalist or whatever

name they want to use are the young restless and reformed, you know, coming again. It's like

the second coming of them. Or Shepherds for Sale 2.0, right? It's like a second big Eva.

It's whatever smears they want to use.

And I think what's going on in part and maybe primarily is a mentality that has been cultivated

over the last few decades in reformed evangelical circles specifically that has seen

the big threat posed to Christians as stemming from bad soteriology, bad ecclesiology,

and conferences have been fashioned around those things uh preaching that's not

expository right so typically what you'll see at like shepherd's conference or even g3 or

liganeer any of these big conferences even t4g i i think, was, it'd be pastors primarily. It would be pastors

who would come and they'd expose it. Even if it wasn't expository preaching, they at least

tried to pass it off as expository preaching, right? And what's happening now is there is a

huge set of cultural challenges that and political challenges that younger Christians,

millennials and Gen Z Christians are looking at and they're saying that and they're reformed

primarily. A lot of these guys I think are from reformed in their satirology, but they're saying

I haven't heard answers to my questions

i haven't heard these things addressed at in those venues uh you know some guy like alistair bag

who's platformed in many of these places who's this great expositor of the word of god can't even

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