Tension

On one side of the aisle, you have Christians who want to ignore the things going on around us in the name of "just preaching the Gospel."

On the other, you've got Christians who want to ignore core tenets of church history while focusing on "just loving like Jesus."

But what if both sides of the tension had some truth in them?

And what if we all were honest about our biases going into these conversations?

This week we talk about how dishonest the entire conversation around "woke" Christianity has become and try to find the way forward in the midst of the culture war going on around us.

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If you've been in the church for any length of time, you know we've been boycotting things since before boycotting was considered canceling. After all, the evangelical boycott of a company and the secular canceling of a person is essentially the same thing.

But where did boycotts originate from? And is there a better way to approach how we interact with the world around us?

This week we talk about the hypocrisy surrounding our current boycott culture and give you a new way to look at how you support companies and entertainers in our society.

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References:

https://relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/the-forgotten-history-of-the-american-churchs-most-successful-boycott/

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In our culture, we have two groups on the extremes who are at war with each other. One side is waging war against anything that doesn’t explicitly promote white, evangelical Christian fundamentalism. The other views any type of religious conviction as bigotry and hatred.

This week we talk about how people trying to authentically follow Jesus survive this war.

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References:

https://providencemag.com/2023/02/a-tale-of-two-culture-wars/

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/march-web-only/russell-moore-ct-culture-wars-woke-evangelicals-scripture.html

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/april-web-only/holy-week-good-friday-cross-christ-evangelical-culture-wars.html

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The way we view church has changed. The average "committed" church goer attends less than two Sundays per month and that number is quickly approaching only once per month. On top of that, of the people who *do* go to church, 40% are now going to a different church than they went to before the pandemic.

That begs a few questions:

Do we even need to go to church?

What's the point of going if I can watch online?

How do I find a new church?

We close out season 7 looking at one perspective shift that will help answer all those questions and give all of us a different view of what church should be than many of us were taught growing up.

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We talk a lot about the problems in the evangelical church in America. In today's episode, we dive into the root of so many of those issues and give you a perspective shift that will change how you read the Bible and view Christianity.

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If the last few years have taught us anything, it's that we're all walking around with layers of grief we aren't processing. We've lost loved ones in the pandemic. We've lost friends to the changes in our culture. We've lost ... you fill in the blank.

And as Christians, we're never really taught what to do with our grief. Most of us are taught to just give it to Jesus and move on. But is that healthy? Is that biblical?

This week we look at the tension between wallowing in our grief and simply moving past it while seeing how Jesus processed losing his own loved ones.

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From the martyr obsession of the late 90s to the culture war fighters of today, the church - especially in America - has this weird obsession with being persecuted.

But are we actually persecuted? Or does the culture at large just no longer represent us in the majority?

In this week's episode, we talk about how we live in the tension between a society that is no longer predominately Christian while still holding to our beliefs and convictions.

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We can't do a season without hitting on Purity Culture at least once!

Boys who grew up in church were taught to bounce their eyes when looking at girls because, y'know, every girl is a sexual temptation just by existing.

How do we stop viewing the opposite sex as sexual first as opposed to just a fellow human since 99.9% of the humans on this planet are not going to be the person you are supposed to sexualize?

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This week is the three year anniversary of George Flloyd's murder that kicked off a summer of racial unrest. During that time we all lived in the tension of one side saying to support police no matter what and the other side saying all cops are bad.

But what does the Bible actually say about policing?

How do we balance advocating for reform and equal protection for all people with supporting law enforcement?

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In the church, we often focus on the mind (knowledge) or on our actions (behavior) but never about the thing that influences those two (emotions).

Because we should cling to the truth of scripture, we were taught to completely ignore the the idea that people make decisions based on the way they feel.

This week we look at the two extremes (knowledge is everything on one side with behavior being supreme on the other) before looking at how we can process our emotions in the tension between Biblical knowledge and Christ like behavior.

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