You've Got Questions, We've Got Answers!
The 9941 Podcast
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
It’s the very first Friday Q&A on the Granger Smith Podcast! Granger and AntMan dive into your listener emails and tackle some real, thought-provoking questions from the community.
This week, a campus minister writes in about tensions with church leadership over differing worldviews — from Taylor Swift fandom to cultural ideology — and asks how to respond with both grace and truth. Granger shares biblical perspective on when it might be time to lovingly part ways and how to do it with peace and humility.
Then, another listener asks whether churches should preach verse-by-verse or focus on modern issues like politics and culture. Granger unpacks the difference between expository preaching and topical teaching, explaining how faithful teaching always starts with Scripture — not the other way around.
If you’ve ever wrestled with how to stand firm in truth while living out grace, this episode will challenge and encourage you.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we're going to answer some questions here on the show. |
| 0:05.4 | I got the Ant Man with me. |
| 0:06.5 | We have collected these emails from podcast at GrangerSmith.com. |
| 0:11.8 | If you have any question, we're going to start doing this on Fridays, the Friday Q&A. |
| 0:17.0 | We don't have a name for it yet. |
| 0:18.4 | I like that, though. |
| 0:19.4 | The Friday Q&A. |
| 0:20.5 | The Friday Q&A here on the podcast, Ant-Man. |
| 0:24.9 | Once again, we have emails collected from you guys. |
| 0:28.8 | Email me, podcast at Granger-Smith.com. |
| 0:31.8 | And we're going to dive into them right now. |
| 0:34.3 | What you got? |
| 0:35.3 | All right, first one says, hey, Granger, I'm a campus minister who |
| 0:38.2 | works for a church that makes disciples on the college campus in our surrounded community. |
| 0:43.3 | I'd love to stay anonymous for this message as it involves my church. The lead pastor of our church |
| 0:48.5 | and his wife have more liberal-leaning ideologies, and the wife openly talks about Taylor Swift, I guess |
| 0:55.8 | affectionately. We've had conflict as they definitely have this cultural paradigm of oppressed versus |
| 1:03.4 | oppressor. This goes back to a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. As one of the lenses that they view the world. |
| 1:09.4 | We had conflict over Charlie Kirk and their approach to preach more leaning towards |
| 1:13.7 | the oppressed and against what Charlie stood for, which through your podcast, I'm learning |
| 1:20.0 | that this is only because the paradigm that they view the world, which really made sense. |
| 1:25.7 | My question is, how do you recommend that I address this issue as the lead pastor and his |
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