What is Healthy Tech. Use - Is Oppression Real - Is the N.T. Church Ideal? - BreakPoint Q&A
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane review healthy technology use. A listener asks for insight on what practices and habits a mindful parent has in their home as they lead their family in the digital age.
Another listener writes in to ask how Christians should respond to the presence of oppression. The listener asks for perspective on what a Christian should do when they don't feel oppression, but are told it is present.
John also helps a listener have a whole perspective of critiques of the modern church. The listener asks why church practices aren't reflected in the Bible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm joined by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we're answering your questions, this time about a healthy model for technology use in the home, |
| 0:19.0 | how we keep from seeing oppression where none |
| 0:22.4 | actually exists, and whether the modern church looks at all like the Church of the New |
| 0:27.3 | Testament. All of these questions were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, |
| 0:31.9 | articles, and the Colson Fellows program. If you'd like to send us a question to answer here |
| 0:35.9 | on the podcast, all you need to do is email us. The address is Ask the Colson Center at colson center.org. The first question, |
| 0:44.0 | John, today comes out of the Colson Fellows program, someone who has been through the program |
| 0:48.3 | and is looking for kind of next steps, who feels very convicted about the need to engage the |
| 0:53.7 | culture in a very intentional and |
| 0:55.4 | systematic way. But what do you do and how do you do that? The Colson Fellows Program obviously |
| 0:59.7 | goes a long way to answering that question. But I'd love to hear your perspective and answer to |
| 1:04.8 | a question like this. This person writes in, through the Fellows Program, I now have a greater |
| 1:09.6 | understanding that we must engage in some level of Christian activism to influence the institutions, local church, school, government, etc., that are obviously broken. |
| 1:19.7 | Is there any process or technique that can be used as a guide to begin this engagement, any group or organization besides Colson Center that does this well. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah, there's tons of groups that do it well, far more than we give credit for. |
| 1:33.3 | Several years ago, when Shaw McDowell and I wrote the book on same-sex marriage, |
| 1:37.3 | it was kind of a depressing write because it was, we could see the handwriting on the wall, |
| 1:41.3 | we could see, you know, where this thing was going. |
| 1:43.3 | This was before Obergefell. I was challenged to write by another friend, Warren Smith, who used to work with us at the |
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