With reports that podcasting megastar Joe Rogan has begun to regularly attend worship services, we react to what this says about the culture, the blessings and challenges of celebrity conversions, and what the churches of Christ can learn from this.

We examine common quips and phrases you'll hear in the churches of Christ, including "Steps of Salvation," "the Brotherhood," "Separate and Apart from the Lord's Supper," and more!

SECTIONS:

00:00 - Intro

5:30 - "Ready Recollection," "Separate & Apart," and Other Cliches

18:20 - Bible Things in Bible Ways, the Pattern, and Silence

38:00 - The Steps of Salvation

46:45 - "Church of Christ" and "The Brotherhood"

54:44 - Think Fast: Must Christians Support Israel?

In this week's Think Fast we look at President Trump's negotiations in the Middle East and the rumors that the US and the Israeli government are not on the same page.

Many Evangelicals believe God has commanded the US and all other nations to support Israel... but is that true? From the Think Deeper Podcast episode, Guide, Guard, and Direct Us: Church of Christ Lingo available Monday, May 19

We live in possibly the most generationally divided time ever. Thanks to mass media and the rapid growth of technology, we have 4 generations with as little in common as any. We discuss:

How the Post-WWII world has changed things so drastically for all of us

The strengths and weaknesses of each generation

Statistical insights that help us understand each other

What it's going to take to bring the generations together

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro and defining terms

03:10 - Generational defensiveness

9:30 - Where the breakdown began

22:20 - Interesting statistics

30:15 - The turning tide

36:00 - Self-awareness of our failures

49:10 - Think Fast: A New Pope

We're back!

This week Think Deeper returns with a look at the question of whether Christian teens should go to prom, whether parents should allow it, and the place of rites of passage in young people's growth.

5:25 - our answers and making the "steel man" case for prom
11:45 - is this a Romans 14 issue, a matter of opinion?
17:30 - parents' responsibility to their children
22:47 - statistics that shed light on the prom experience
30:13 - is modesty conditional?
36:30 - answering arguments
40:45 - what about formal banquets and prom alternatives?
53:55 - what other rites of passage might be useful for young people?
1:07:00 - THINK FAST! Tariffs and living with less

With Will Harrub, Jack Wilkie, and Joe Wilkie

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Think Fast returns!

Each Friday we'll be reacting to some major headline or talking point of that week, beginning with this discussion of President Trump's comments on some of the expected effects of tariffs.

Keep an eye out for our return episode Monday - The Prom Question and Rites of Passage

In the churches of Christ, congregations are autonomous... to a point. Deciding when a line has been crossed and others have become beyond fellowship is a delicate but critical matter.

Topics include:

- The tendencies of progressivism and hyperconservatism
- Being open to one another without becoming compromised
- Being exclusive without being exclusionary
- Whether there's a difference between salvation issues and fellowship issues
- Are churches supposed to "police" one another?

With Will Harrub, Jack Wilkie, and Joe Wilkie

Feminism's influence runs deep in our day, making it difficult for us to discern what God's design for women should look like.

In this week's rewind, the guys examined the Bible's teachings on the design of women, their strengths, their weaknesses, and how our culture has missed the mark.

The world clearly has no idea what a man is, nor what a woman is. But do Christians know?

Can we articulate the differences? Can we explain the strengths and weaknesses God gave to men, and why they matter?

In this episode the guys discuss the common stereotypes of harmful masculinity before contrasting them with the role for which God created men.

Originally aired March 29, 2022

Originally published in September 2022

Some Christians claim Jesus explicitly told us to prepare ourselves for self-defense. Other Christians claim Jesus expressly prohibited us from doing so. How can there be such a wide chasm of opinions on this matter? And what does the Bible really say? We discuss in this episode. Topics include:

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