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The Living Waters Podcast

Who Are You Listening To? Learning Discernment in a World Full of Voices – Highlight Episode 373

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Prolife, Witnessing, Faith, Gospel, Evangelism, Jesus, Salvation, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Theology, Christianity, Apologetics, Spirituality

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Discernment is becoming harder to practice in a world saturated with constant noise and endless opinions. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar examine how digital overload, social media, and frictionless interactions have created a discipleship problem where believers are shaped more by algorithms than by Scripture. The guys explain that discernment is not just knowing right from wrong, but recognizing truth from almost truth, and that deception often works by dulling awe and distracting hearts from Go...

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0:00.0

Infinite voices. It feels like that. Doesn't it Oscar? Like in a day and age where I call it just noise,

0:05.3

incessant, constant noise, whether it's from social media or its texts or its emails or its

0:12.5

constant input, media, news, things always come in our ways. And we need discernment.

0:19.2

Truly, it's more now than ever perhaps because, and I think really this is ultimately

0:23.6

a discipleship issue with the local church.

0:26.5

We need to figure out how to subvert what's happening because you mentioned infinite voices.

0:32.7

There's never been a time in history in which you are so plugged into other people's opinions and views of the

0:39.7

world through podcast and YouTube and I mean we are you add up the hours of the amount of content

0:47.3

that we consume on a regular basis that are being driven by an algorithm that's shoving us into some sort of pipeline

0:57.9

of echo chamberism and you you come to realize like it's really discipleship issue because now more

1:04.9

than ever other people are speaking into your lives and if you're not not careful, here's what happens, is that you

1:12.4

think you're a good Christian because you show up to church for an hour and a half on a Sunday.

1:17.2

And then you spend the next 60 hours of consumption time in your week on your drives at the gym,

1:25.4

cleaning the house, downloading and listening to podcasts, YouTube videos, etc., etc.

1:30.3

Ultimately, here's the takeaway.

1:32.8

You are being catechized by whatever it is you consume.

1:37.1

That's true, man.

1:38.2

You're always being disciples.

1:39.9

Right.

1:40.6

You're always being disciple.

1:42.3

Choose your discipler well.

1:45.0

Choose the person who's disciplining you well.

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