What Babylon Teaches The Church About Discipleship | with Shanda Fulbright

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Who (or WHAT) is discipling you and your family? We often talk about discipleship in Christian circles, with most of us instinctively associating it with some form of ministry training. While this is certainly an aspect of discipleship, it doesn't quite encapsulate the concept as a whole. Is it safe to assume that the Church has been exclusive in its pursuit of producing disciples? Or has the culture managed to make a few disciples of its own?

In this midweek podcast, Phoenix Hayes sits down with former public school teacher, OCC instructor, and Biola certified Christian apologist, Shanda Fulbright, to talk about some practical ways to make faithful disciples. With help from Daniel and his Jewish friends, Shanda will explain what Christians can learn about discipleship from their experience in Babylon. During the episode, Phoenix and Shanda will answer questions like:

What are three key ingredients to effective discipleship?
Is Christian discipleship just another form of "indoctrination"?
Why were Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego targeted by Babylon?
How many professing Christians in the U.S. actually hold a biblical worldview?
What can parents (and the Church) do to curtail culture's influence on their kids?

As you'll hear during this episode, the unwavering faith of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego didn't happen by accident. What was it that gave them the courage and the confidence to stand against the culture of their day? Listen and learn!

Do you need help discipling your 6-8th grader? Then don't miss the opportunity to enroll your child in Shanda's upcoming PREMIUM COURSE, 'Let's Get Real: Examining the Evidence for God', which kicks off on January 8th! During this 12-week course, each student will participate in 11 LIVE Zoom discussions with Shanda, and the 12th week will feature a LIVE Q&A session with Frank! Class starts soon so don't delay, enroll your child HERE today!

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Connect with Shanda online: https://www.shandafulbright.com/

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Let's Get Real: Examining the Evidence for God - PREMIUM course for 6-8th graders starts on 1/8!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book true?
0:05.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.6	Is that true?
0:15.4	They don't think Christianity's true.
0:18.5	They're talked out of it.
0:20.2	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.2	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.0	Cross-examining skeptical and apiistic view.
0:28.0	Welcome to Cross-examine with Dr. Frank Turrick.
0:32.0	Jesus said, go make disciples of all nations.
0:38.0	Ladies and gentlemen, notice he didn't say make believers.
0:41.0	He said, make disciples, there's a difference. We're not just trying to get people fire insurance
0:48.4	We're trying to make them more and more like Jesus. That's our goal. To know God and to make him known, but to know
0:58.6	him in such a way that we're conformed to the image of his son.
1:03.6	That's what discipleship is all about.
1:06.0	And it's really difficult in America
1:07.9	to make disciples because we're so individualistic.
1:11.0	We're so busy.
1:11.9	We got so many other things going on.
1:13.7	What can we actually learn about discipleship from Babylon in the book of Daniel?
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