What Now? Christian Living Post Election - Ask Breakpoint
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What narrative are Christians living by post election? John Stonestreet and Shane Morris answer a host of questions that essentially ask the same question. Many listeners are wondering how we should live after election results are tallied.
John points to church history as a testimony of God's soverignty. He highlights Jesus' prayer in John 17. There is unity for God's church because of unity in Christ. John notes our unity together rests in unity in Christ that hold strength in unity to God.
Shane directs the conversation to another question. A listener asked why there is a focus on the Great Commission and the Great Commandment, with a lesser emphasis on the Cultural Mandate.
John references Chuck Colson, who said that God never changed his mind on the cultural mandate. John points to the four adjectives of being saved. He says we're saved to, saved from, saved by, and saved for something purposeful.
In closing the pair consider a question somewhat related to the election season. The question referenced the expedited movement of same-sex marriage. John provides teaching on the need for imagination to engage movements.
John notes that leading generations are imaginitively desensitized. They didn't foresee issues that would arise from not addressing cultural issues.
The pair close with hope. They direct us to the design and purpose in God as we engage the world and make His name known.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. |
| 0:10.2 | These are questions based on breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've aired on short courses that we've held and articles and columns on our site. |
| 0:19.0 | We're recording this, John, on Election Day, and we have no idea |
| 0:22.9 | as of now what the outline will be. Oh, I do. I don't know that you don't, but I know completely |
| 0:27.4 | what's going to happen, of course. Oh, care to go on the record then? I just don't want to keep |
| 0:31.3 | it to myself. If I told you, I'd have to kill you. We have to throw in that kind of obligatory Mark Twain quote that predictions are, or was it Yogi Berra? |
| 0:39.8 | Predictions are dangerous, especially the ones about the future. |
| 0:43.0 | It's either one of those two are Abraham Lincoln, just attribute the unknown quote to one of those three. |
| 0:46.9 | No, it is. |
| 0:48.1 | I mean, it's what a day. |
| 0:50.3 | Many of us are trying to figure out good ways to teach our kids, the civics that can be learned through this, the pre-civic cultural realities that need to be talked about, like what makes a community strong. |
| 1:03.2 | What's the difference between a culture that's dominated by politics versus one in which politics doesn't take over too much territory. And that's a |
| 1:13.6 | dramatic shift, I think, even in my lifetime, you know, obviously politics has always been |
| 1:19.8 | important. I mean, you and I both live kind of downstream from Nixon, which is where, you know, |
| 1:25.3 | so much and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Although not that far |
| 1:30.0 | downstream, one of our mutual friends and former co-workers, Warren Cole Smith, just posted on |
| 1:35.1 | Facebook. I guess he was digging through his attic or something. And he found a Nixon campaign |
| 1:40.4 | sign or poster or something. And he just kind of laid it out there with historical |
| 1:44.7 | memorabilia. It's not that long ago in the grand scheme of things. No, I guess it's not. I mean, but it |
| 1:49.3 | seems like a long time. But even since then, it just seems like the escalation of politics, the |
| 1:54.6 | space that it takes over in our day-to-day lives. To the point now, it's just such a dominant |
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