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What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your Phone

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Churches are using accountability apps to keep tabs on their members' behavior. But if your pastor wants to monitor your phone, can you truly consent? Guest: Dhruv Mehrotra Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For I am not ashamed of the gospel.

0:08.6

You only need to spend a few seconds on Grace Point Ministries YouTube channel to understand

0:13.6

that this is not a conventional church.

0:15.8

It's the power of God for salvation to all who there believe it.

0:19.3

So we share in suffering.

0:20.9

We fight like a good soldier of Jesus Christ, turning away from youthful passions,

0:25.3

and compassion, students in college, gathering together, losing our lives because we've got

0:30.6

all the game.

0:34.1

Grace Point is an evangelical Southern Baptist ministry with more than 800 outposts in college

0:38.9

towns around the U.S.

0:41.4

And that's how Grant, how Y. Lynn, found his way to Grace Point's church in Berkeley,

0:45.7

California.

0:46.7

So while Grant was at Berkeley, he started attending Grace Point Church and he became

0:53.6

a full-time congregant.

0:55.2

That's Drew Morocha, an investigative reporter at Wired.

0:59.2

And after about a year of being a member of the church, he felt comfortable enough to

1:04.3

come out to his church leader as being a being a gay man.

1:10.3

And when he did that, you know, the church leader was accepting of him, which was surprising

1:14.3

to Grant.

1:15.6

But there was a caveat, which was that Grant had to install this software, covenanted

1:19.7

eyes on his phone, which the church leader, according to Grant, the church leader told

1:24.0

him that the app would help him with, quote, all of his urges.

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