Thank you for joining us for the hashtag STR-Ask podcast with Greg Kokel.

And Amy.

And I'm Amy Hall.

I let Greg do all the hard things and then I swoop in and...

Well, they know that's not true.

But nevertheless, we'll let it go and move on.

Okay.

Here's the first question.

It comes from Matthew Taylor and he also has there the Still Unbelievable podcast.

Okay, so here's his question. Who made you the experts of what makes someone a Christian? And just to understand where he's coming from,

this was in response to an episode we did on December 19th about how professing Christians can

support things that are anti-Christian like LGBTQ and

abortion on demand and those sorts of things. So his question is, who made you the experts of what

makes someone a Christian?

Well, I'm trying to suppress a chuckle here because it's such an odd statement.

Partly because I suspect that Matthew has an opinion

about what a Christian actually is, and it's not our opinion. And so that's why he's challenging

us. But if I were to ask him what his view is, I could also ask him this question, who made you the expert

on what is a Christian and what isn't a Christian? And by the way, that could be said about any view

anyone has. So this is a very, let's just say uncharitable way of asking the question. I'm not offended by it,

but what it does is it betrays a kind of hostility and a subtle implication that I have no right

to say anything about that. You have no right to say anything about that. We cannot legitimately

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