Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1016 ｜ Time to Ditch Ergobaby

00:00:00.740 Ergo Baby, a popular baby carrier company, has come out in favor of quote-unquote trans children.

00:00:09.820 Also, the lead singer for Jars of Clay is celebrating pride.

00:00:14.020 But we've got some great examples of Christian courage, too.

00:00:17.880 A recent high school graduate sharing the gospel during his commencement speech.

00:00:23.140 We've got all of this and much, much more on today's episode of Relatable.

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00:00:41.800 Hey, guys.

00:00:42.640 Welcome to Relatable.

00:00:43.620 Happy Monday.

00:00:44.740 Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

00:00:47.080 For all of you who were at Young Women's Leadership Summit this weekend in San Antonio, it was wonderful

00:00:53.080 to see you.

00:00:53.860 I got to meet so many of you.

00:00:56.020 And I'm so glad that y'all had such a wonderful time there.

00:00:59.000 I did, too.

00:01:00.060 And it was really just a privilege and an honor to speak with you guys and to meet y'all.

00:01:06.360 So thank you so much for all of you who came up to me afterwards and we had great conversations.

00:01:12.360 All right.

00:01:12.660 We're not going to do any introduction today.

00:01:15.380 We're just going to get straight into everything that we have to talk about.

00:01:19.120 And we're actually going to talk about some good things that are happening.

00:01:21.940 I guess there's some good and some bad in the stories that we are addressing first, but

00:01:26.980 they're stories of courage.

00:01:28.540 And they are stories of God using his willing and obedient people to make a difference.

00:01:36.360 And yes, these obedient Christians have gotten pushback and have faced consequences because

00:01:43.260 of these things, but they serve as an example to us.

00:01:46.160 And the first example of this Christian courage is a young man named Micah Price.

00:01:52.000 He was, according to him, denied his high school diploma for praising Jesus in his high school

00:01:58.920 graduation speech.

00:02:00.400 This is just an incredible story.

00:02:02.120 So he is a recent graduate from the Campbell County High School, and he says his school

00:02:07.740 withheld his diploma for five days after he went off script during the closing speech of

00:02:12.940 graduation ceremonies.

00:02:14.880 Price was chosen by the school's principal to deliver the speech.

00:02:19.660 He submitted eight different drafts of his speech before graduation day, and he was told

00:02:26.460 after he submitted these drafts to take out portions that focused heavily on the

00:02:32.120 on religion.

00:02:33.940 And so they had actually approved part of the speech that mentioned Jesus Christ, but no

00:02:40.640 further religious references were supposed to be made in this speech.

00:02:46.180 And so when he actually delivered his speech, he did say the part that was approved, but he

00:02:51.180 added on to that a little bit.

00:02:53.360 Here's salt one.

00:02:54.040 Class, before another word is to leave my mouth, I must get the honor, the praise, and the glory

00:03:01.740 of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who in this very word tells us he is the way, the truth,

00:03:06.980 and the life.

00:03:08.460 Class, anyone in the audience today, I'm here to tell you that if you don't have any of those

00:03:11.860 things in your life, you can't seem to find the answer, that my Lord and Savior is your

00:03:14.580 answer.

00:03:14.920 He will give you the truth, give you the way, and the life.

00:03:16.860 That is awesome.

00:03:18.960 I mean, just the simple gospel right there.

00:03:20.940 I don't know if you guys can feel that, but I just can feel the Holy Spirit speaking through

00:03:25.580 him, and he said it so concisely and so beautifully, and you just never know how God is going to

00:03:32.760 use the seeds that were planted through those simple words.

00:03:37.520 You just never know how that is going to take root in the hearts of the audience there.

00:03:42.820 I promise you that the people there who heard that, that God providentially placed them there

00:03:49.380 in order to listen to that message.

00:03:54.160 He has always, he says, had a desire to honor God.

00:03:59.300 One of his goals since fifth grade was to deliver a speech on his graduation day that honored

00:04:04.620 God, which is pretty incredible that God put that dream, that desire in his heart.

00:04:09.740 In eighth grade, he became a devout Christian, a Baptist in particular.

00:04:15.720 Price said that he went to get the envelope with his diploma after the ceremony, after

00:04:21.060 he finished his speech, and the principal tapped him on the shoulder and told him he would have

00:04:26.000 to talk to the board about this.

00:04:28.120 And so he says, I knew my diploma was going to be held. 0.99

00:04:30.940 Before you do anything they tell us, if you go up there and do a cartwheel or something stupid, 0.97

00:04:36.640 that will get your diploma held. 0.98

00:04:38.760 So I guess they put his speech in that same category.

00:04:43.740 So he knew that the consequences would possibly be if he went off script that he would get

00:04:48.780 his diploma held.

00:04:50.140 But he said, I simply cannot hold back what Christ has done in my life.

00:04:53.880 He's everything to me.

00:04:55.620 He says he takes, he takes ownership of this.

00:04:57.680 Okay.

00:04:57.920 So he's not playing the victim.

00:04:59.260 He says, I went against the rules.

00:05:01.100 It's my fault.

00:05:01.940 I should be in trouble.

00:05:03.140 I never wanted to bring hate to them or to tear down the school.

00:05:08.000 It's a weird feeling being the talk of the town, he says on TikTok, but he's not apologizing.

00:05:14.020 He says, I'm not here to push a political agenda.

00:05:16.680 I'm here to push the kingdom of Christ.

00:05:19.960 He said he knows he went against the rules of conduct, the Campbell County code, and yet

00:05:25.400 he was willing to pay the price for that.

00:05:28.220 He did end up receiving his diploma five days later, but he paid the price for going against

00:05:37.000 the rules.

00:05:37.720 But of course, it was worth it to him.

00:05:40.160 And so he decided to count the cost.

00:05:42.060 In this case, it was a pretty small cost.

00:05:44.560 And he decided that I'm willing to pay that.

00:05:48.040 And most people would not even pay that price to share the gospel.

00:05:52.580 They would say, no, the rules are the rules.

00:05:55.100 I don't want to get in trouble.

00:05:56.360 And they actually think that following these kind of arbitrary rules set by this school

00:06:02.480 is more important than honoring Christ.

00:06:04.920 That Christ is somehow more honored by following these rules than he would be by someone sharing

00:06:12.920 the gospel.

00:06:13.720 And that, of course, is wrong.

00:06:15.580 And most people, Christians even, wouldn't have done this, even if it hadn't been against

00:06:20.540 the rules, because most people don't even want to pay the price of awkwardness.

00:06:24.580 Like, that's true for all of us, right?

00:06:27.400 We've counted the cost of sharing the gospel, and we decided that the only cost to be paid

00:06:31.740 in one particular moment was that we might feel uncomfortable, or that it might be awkward,

00:06:36.100 or someone might roll their eyes, or someone might put their headphones in, or someone might

00:06:40.280 get a little bit mad at us.

00:06:42.040 And we've decided that that cost is too high.

00:06:44.640 I think all of us have been there.

00:06:46.440 And he decided it's worth the awkwardness, it's worth the backlash, it's maybe worth

00:06:51.920 the loss of friendships, and it's worth my diploma getting held.

00:06:55.940 And this might seem like a small thing, but if we're honest, I think we've all been in

00:07:02.580 some kind of position where we have decided not even to pay a little price to share the

00:07:09.520 gospel.

00:07:10.080 And so I just want to commend him for his faith and praise God that through the power

00:07:15.360 of the Holy Spirit, he was given the courage to say these words.

00:07:18.560 And I think that we can look to the example of this young man and say, okay, with whatever

00:07:23.760 platform God has given me, whether it's at a podium, behind a microphone, or whether it's

00:07:28.380 at home discipling your children, whether it's in the workplace, whatever it is, big influence

00:07:34.400 or small, a large audience, or just an audience of one person, how is God calling me?

00:07:42.260 How has he prepared me in this moment to share the truth of Christ?

00:07:46.140 And just on that note, I have in the past, because I have felt so much pressure to share

00:07:52.540 the whole gospel and every evangelistic conversation and to make sure I have all the answers to the

00:07:57.580 questions and make sure I say everything right, and that I lay out the Romans road perfectly

00:08:03.880 I have been too scared to say what is true, but I want to relieve the pressure a little

00:08:10.100 bit.

00:08:10.380 There's this great book, and it's called Tactics by Greg Kokel, and he talks about how the point

00:08:16.080 of every conversation that we have with someone, conversations with someone that we may disagree

00:08:20.840 with, that we may not know, whose mind we're trying to change, we're trying to demonstrate

00:08:24.700 the truth to them in some way, is not necessarily to win that conversation, that discussion at that

00:08:32.680 moment.

00:08:33.380 Our job is to plant a seed, which means that we might only, in that one interaction, share a

00:08:40.900 little bit of truth or ask a question that causes them to think about something that they've never

00:08:46.060 thought about before.

00:08:46.980 Whether we're talking about the gospel, whether we're talking about abortion, whether we're

00:08:49.780 talking about gender, all of these big existential so-called culture war issues that really come

00:08:55.100 down to biblical issues, it's not necessarily to convince them fully of your true position

00:09:04.020 in that conversation.

00:09:05.240 It's to plant a seed, because God is only using you in that person's life.

00:09:11.500 If God has decided that he is going to turn a heart of stone to a heart of flesh, he is going

00:09:16.160 to do it.

00:09:17.200 He is sovereign over salvation.

00:09:19.280 He is the one who waters and gives growth.

00:09:21.960 And so he has already mapped out the constellation of that person's testimony.

00:09:27.780 He already has lined up all of the Christians that that person is going to interact with over

00:09:34.300 the next however many months or years until that person repents and turns to Christ.

00:09:39.560 You are just one of those people.

00:09:41.560 So we just have to be obedient in the moment with the truth that we can share and let us

00:09:49.160 not say, well, I'm just not going to say anything because I can't share the full gospel.

00:09:53.140 Maybe you're just asking a question.

00:09:55.640 Maybe you're just sharing a little bit of truth.

00:09:57.780 Maybe you're just laying the groundwork.

00:09:59.700 Maybe you're teeing it up for the next person who God is going to give the opportunity to share

00:10:05.000 the full gospel with them.

00:10:06.240 Maybe the next person is just going to push the ball even further down the field.

00:10:11.860 God has already mapped all of this out.

00:10:14.200 We are just one person, one domino in someone's testimony.

00:10:19.580 So just remember that, that one God is in charge of it.

00:10:22.720 So we don't have to say things perfectly or eloquently, even though it's really good to

00:10:26.040 prepare and to know the word and to have a reasonable answer for the faith that we have.

00:10:29.980 But also you're just one person in someone's entire testimony.

00:10:34.100 This young man is just one person and someone in the audience, their entire testimony.

00:10:41.580 It might be 50 years that someone looks back and says, I don't know why I remember this,

00:10:46.800 but I just remember what our commencement speaker, I don't even remember what his name was,

00:10:51.360 what our commencement speaker said at graduation and that always stuck with me and I didn't get

00:10:55.180 it until now.

00:10:56.020 You hear those testimonies all the time.

00:10:58.460 I've interviewed so many people who are former atheists, former porn stars, former so-called

00:11:04.940 transgender people, people who were totally lost in a variety of ways.

00:11:09.120 And when they're sharing their testimonies of how they came to faith, there's always

00:11:13.440 some kind of moment that they look back on and they didn't realize at the time that it

00:11:18.260 was significant.

00:11:19.200 They didn't know that it was going to leave an indelible mark on their mind.

00:11:22.500 And yet it did.

00:11:23.560 And now in retrospect, they look back and they say, yeah, God used that moment when that person

00:11:28.440 said that one thing that I didn't get at the time to then start changing my heart.

00:11:32.840 So just remember that that is possible.

00:11:35.800 That's possible for all of us.

00:11:38.260 And good job to this young man.

00:11:40.300 And this is a case of God's work actually making headlines.

00:11:43.240 It doesn't always.

00:11:44.340 But this kind of thing is common in the life of the believer.

00:11:47.520 It's happening on a day-to-day basis.

00:11:49.120 Even when it seems like everything is going to hell in a handbasket, God is using the

00:11:55.120 common courage of Christians on a daily basis to advance his kingdom.

00:12:00.080 Because what do we always say?

00:12:01.220 God's eternal plan of redemption is always going off without a hitch.

00:12:05.640 All right.

00:12:05.960 We've got another example.

00:12:07.340 It's a much shorter example, but I just love the example that this NBA coach sets for just

00:12:14.780 like how to pivot away from divisive kind of conversations and ask questions that make

00:12:21.520 people think a little bit harder.

00:12:23.120 All right.

00:12:36.120 Joe Mazzula is the Boston Celtics head coach.

00:12:40.480 That's an NBA team.

00:12:42.460 If you are not familiar, he was asked during a press conference on Saturday if he had any

00:12:50.280 thoughts about what it meant to him to go up against another black head coach.

00:12:57.020 This is the kind of like race baiting stuff that the press loves.

00:13:02.840 Of course, he was referencing the Mavs coach, Jason Kidd.

00:13:06.940 And here is Mazzula's response.

00:13:09.360 Satu.

00:13:10.440 Hey, Joe.

00:13:11.320 Vince Goodwill, Yahoo Sports.

00:13:12.760 For the first time since 1975, this is the NBA finals where you have two black head coaches.

00:13:17.420 Given the plight sometimes of black head coaches in the NBA, do you think this is a significant

00:13:22.820 moment?

00:13:23.400 Do you take pride in this?

00:13:24.740 How do you view this?

00:13:25.620 Or do you not see it at all?

00:13:26.940 I wonder how many of those have been Christian coaches.

00:13:36.540 David Aldridge?

00:13:37.260 Like, he didn't follow up.

00:13:40.260 I love that.

00:13:41.080 He didn't sit there.

00:13:42.120 He didn't try to clarify.

00:13:43.480 He didn't caveat.

00:13:44.420 He didn't explain himself.

00:13:46.280 He just asked a question.

00:13:49.040 And then there was silence.

00:13:50.400 And I think the reporter didn't even know what to say.

00:13:53.440 I think it seems like the point that he's making is like, why are we calling out racial

00:13:58.520 identities?

00:13:59.120 Like, why are we calling out the color of people's skin?

00:14:02.480 And why does that matter?

00:14:04.440 If that matters, shouldn't something much more important matter?

00:14:07.920 What someone holds in their heart, the faith that they have, where they actually get their

00:14:12.560 identity and solace.

00:14:14.740 And so I think it seems to me what he's trying to say is like, that doesn't really matter.

00:14:19.860 I'm not going to take the bait.

00:14:22.160 Um, it's also interesting to note just the language that he used.

00:14:26.460 He said, like, do you think this is a significant moment?

00:14:29.380 You're going against this black Mavs head coach.

00:14:32.460 Um, do you take pride in this, uh, given the plight, given the plight of black coaches 0.97

00:14:40.280 in the NBA, um, the plight that implies that there has been some kind of struggle or oppression

00:14:47.800 there.

00:14:48.300 And it's important to note that black coaches in the NBA, at least today, they're doing

00:14:53.740 pretty well for themselves in terms of contracts.

00:14:56.860 Last season, 10 of the top 20 coaches have earned the most money that, um, to have earned

00:15:02.520 the most money in the NBA were black.

00:15:05.160 Maybe it wasn't always that way, but right now it is.

00:15:09.280 There's not really a plight to speak of.

00:15:12.780 Of course, also the NBA itself is disproportionately black Americans that get paid a lot of money.

00:15:20.400 And so I just appreciate that he didn't take the bait, um, didn't take the bait on that.

00:15:25.860 Um, Vincent Goodwill, he's the reporter who asked the question.

00:15:29.900 He wrote in his column Saturday night that Missoula's unwillingness to discuss race was

00:15:35.700 a complicated issue.

00:15:37.720 So this is what he wrote in Yahoo Sports.

00:15:40.740 He said, Missoula, who's mixed race, preferred to sidestep my question, giving deference to

00:15:46.060 his religion more than his racial identity.

00:15:49.800 And I know I said racial identity earlier, but I do, I shouldn't have said that in that

00:15:55.220 context because I don't agree with that language.

00:15:59.800 It's not your identity.

00:16:02.160 It is not core to who you are.

00:16:03.980 It might have influenced in some ways how you experienced the world.

00:16:09.220 I'm not denying that, but it is not your identity.

00:16:13.820 I don't think it's arbitrary.

00:16:15.760 I think God gave us the color of our skin, the melanin count that we have purposely and

00:16:20.120 with intention and with love, but it's not your identity.

00:16:24.300 It's interesting how he says religion, racial identity, not religious identity and race,

00:16:30.240 but racial identity.

00:16:31.640 He says versus religion.

00:16:33.340 And he clearly thinks that racial identity is more important.

00:16:36.120 And of course, this is true of a lot of racial activists in the United States.

00:16:41.020 They really do worship skin color and racial identity, so-called. 0.91

00:16:47.000 He says his relationship with his own racial identity is personal, but his answer certainly 0.92

00:16:51.640 opens the door for more questions.

00:16:53.280 Well, did you ask them?

00:16:54.440 I didn't hear you, especially because it's Boston and the NBA's labor force is overwhelmingly 0.51

00:17:03.040 black.

00:17:04.540 Okay. 0.96

00:17:05.600 What?

00:17:06.260 Okay.

00:17:07.340 Ignoring race in these matters isn't progress because it can infer that seeing someone as

00:17:11.460 black means something negative. 0.99

00:17:12.820 Colorblindness is impossible.

00:17:14.120 And seeing someone's blackness or the black experience as a positive could be the ultimate 1.00

00:17:19.740 sign of progress.

00:17:21.720 This is the whole Ibram X. Kendi anti-racist thing that we have to see someone's non-whiteness

00:17:31.360 actually as a positive asset that should be added to the resume rather than a kind of

00:17:38.620 uninteresting, unimportant part about you.

00:17:41.740 And, you know, Coleman Hughes has been talking about and writing about colorblindness for a

00:17:46.300 long time and the importance of colorblindness.

00:17:48.220 And he has clarified many times that he doesn't actually mean that we don't see skin color

00:17:53.760 or that we cannot appreciate different cultures and we can't appreciate the different ethnicities

00:18:00.380 or different nationalities or even just different melanin counts.

00:18:04.460 But when it comes to weighing someone's character, when it comes to weighing someone's competence,

00:18:09.000 when it comes to hiring, when it comes to admissions, that we don't need to add extra value to someone's

00:18:15.620 skin color, whether they're white, black, Asian, Hispanic.

00:18:19.680 In that sense, we really should be colorblind.

00:18:22.600 And there is a reason why Lady Justice has a blindfold. 1.00

00:18:26.860 She's not supposed to see skin color.

00:18:29.260 And of course, as we talked about last week, as we've talked about many times, impartiality

00:18:34.180 is a necessary component of justice.

00:18:37.640 Showing partiality to someone because of their skin color, their socioeconomic background,

00:18:42.380 their perceived oppression status, is unjust, even if you are doing so allegedly to make

00:18:48.840 up for past wrongs.

00:18:51.080 Current injustice does not make up for or serve as reparations for past injustice.

00:19:00.400 He goes on to say, this reporter who's very mad about this,

00:19:03.400 Missoula has the right to embrace his religion, lean on it to help in his professional and personal

00:19:08.000 walk.

00:19:08.360 He has the right to look in the mirror and not see a black man first, but a Christian 0.99

00:19:12.320 man with strong beliefs.

00:19:13.540 But if he's pulled over in Boston, the police will see his last name and his license.

00:19:17.320 But before they find out anything else about him, they'll see him as a black man first. 0.89

00:19:24.300 OK, that's unhinged. 0.99

00:19:25.800 That's deranged. 0.54

00:19:26.780 I'm sorry.

00:19:27.300 It is because it's not grounded in reality.

00:19:30.360 It's not grounded in statistics.

00:19:31.840 It's not grounded in the real information that we have about police interactions with

00:19:37.380 black people.

00:19:38.140 Are there I'm sure that there are cops who have a racial bias.

00:19:42.660 Yes, I'm sure there are people in all kinds of sectors that have a racial bias.

00:19:47.220 I'm not denying that that exists.

00:19:49.300 I'm not denying that that can manifest itself in negative ways.

00:19:52.460 As we've also talked about, there is a lot of blatant and outright anti-white bias that

00:19:57.460 manifests itself in things like affirmative action.

00:19:59.680 Like, yeah, it happens.

00:20:02.040 I'm not saying that it doesn't.

00:20:03.900 But to say that, you know, for sure that police officers are going to see him as a black

00:20:08.080 man first and then treat him as such. 0.99

00:20:10.320 That's ridiculous. 0.96

00:20:11.100 And what does that have to do, by the way? 0.94

00:20:12.520 What does that have to do with basketball?

00:20:15.400 Missoula, he took over as the Celtics head coach for the 2022-2023 season.

00:20:21.100 He spoke with Anscape.com.

00:20:23.180 I have no idea what that is, but he spoke with him a year ago and he said this.

00:20:26.460 I know that for my wife and I and my family, we're supposed to be here.

00:20:30.000 For us, our faith is really important.

00:20:31.640 And we felt like we followed God's plan to a T as to where he wanted us to be.

00:20:38.140 And he's talked about his faith before in other contacts.

00:20:42.320 And I've just appreciated that about him, not as someone who knows, you know, very much

00:20:48.140 about the NBA or about him at all.

00:20:52.320 I always appreciate when people use their public platform to share their faith and to push back

00:20:58.620 against popular narratives.

00:21:01.580 So go you.

00:21:02.800 Go you, Coach Missoula.

00:21:04.500 And by the way, like, this is just a PR tip, okay?

00:21:08.620 And I think I've said this.

00:21:09.860 I think I've said this before.

00:21:11.200 I think I said it recently.

00:21:12.640 But here it is again.

00:21:14.320 If you are ever in this situation, and maybe it applies to situations beyond just interviews,

00:21:20.200 you never have to answer the interviewer's question.

00:21:22.940 You never do.

00:21:24.140 You never do.

00:21:24.820 Whether it's an interview on a podcast, on a news show, whether you're talking to a reporter,

00:21:29.880 you never have to answer their question.

00:21:31.840 You can deflect.

00:21:34.480 You can pivot.

00:21:35.500 You can ask a question back.

00:21:37.540 You can do lots of things.

00:21:39.800 But there's no rule.

00:21:41.540 It's only because, like, we feel awkward and we feel like it's polite to answer someone's

00:21:45.660 question.

00:21:46.620 But if you don't know the answer to something or you don't want to answer their question,

00:21:50.420 you pivot.

00:21:51.280 You pivot and you ask something else.

00:21:53.240 You make them think about their question and you can just push back on them that way.

00:21:57.380 And I like how he did this.

00:21:58.500 And I like how he didn't feel like he had to give any other explanation at all.

00:22:01.840 So good for him.

00:22:03.420 All right.

00:22:03.940 Before we get into some pride update, if you will, of what is going on in that crazy, 0.74

00:22:12.200 crazy world, I want to tell you just a few things.

00:22:15.440 One, our Share the Arrows event, which I am so excited about, is September 28th.

00:22:22.220 It's going to be amazing.

00:22:24.220 We've got Rosaria Butterfield. 0.79

00:22:26.620 We've got Elisa Childers.

00:22:28.460 We've got Abby Halberstadt of Emma's for Mama. 1.00

00:22:31.820 And then we've got Francesca Battistelli, the Grammy Award winning artist.

00:22:36.980 She's going to be leading worship.

00:22:38.600 I'm going to be there.

00:22:39.480 I'm going to be giving a speech and I'm going to be meeting so many of y'all.

00:22:43.020 Y'all bring all of the moms in your kids' school. 1.00

00:22:46.280 Bring your Bible study.

00:22:47.960 Bring your Sunday school class.

00:22:49.240 Bring your family members, fly them in, drive there if you can.

00:22:54.100 Of course, if you are local to Dallas, Texas, then that is even more convenient for you.

00:22:59.620 Go to sharethearrows.com.

00:23:01.580 You'll see all the options for buying tickets.

00:23:03.820 There are also packages included where there's a little bit more that you can purchase and

00:23:08.380 experience there.

00:23:10.120 Sharethearrows.com.

00:23:11.540 So many of you, when I've spoken at different places over the past few weeks, have told me,

00:23:15.480 oh my gosh, I'm coming with my sister or I'm coming by myself.

00:23:19.100 It's all awesome.

00:23:20.240 And it is a time for us as Christian women to just make sure that we're on the same page.

00:23:26.000 We've got an election coming up.

00:23:28.180 Things are getting increasingly insane.

00:23:31.140 We're seeing so much propaganda that's only going to ramp up.

00:23:35.360 The fear mongering is going to be through the roof.

00:23:39.140 The propaganda when it comes to things like abortion and gender and all of that is going

00:23:44.620 to be off the charts.

00:23:46.600 All of your Christian women friends are going to be using what I call toxic empathy to manipulate 1.00

00:23:51.940 you into thinking that if you love the quote unquote marginalized, if you really love people,

00:23:58.440 if you're really compassionate, if you're really empathetic, then there's no way that you

00:24:01.700 could vote for Donald Trump, that you have to be progressive in order to be a good person

00:24:06.220 and even a good Christian, and you are going to want to be tearing your hair out, trying

00:24:11.360 to fight all of these battles with people in your life to make sure that they know the

00:24:16.860 truth.

00:24:17.440 And look, we got to come together, y'all.

00:24:19.640 We have to come together to remind ourselves we're not alone.

00:24:23.380 We've got all of these like-minded women across the country that are sharing the arrows with 1.00

00:24:28.620 us.

00:24:28.920 We're on the same page.

00:24:30.340 No, you're not crazy.

00:24:31.620 No, you're not alone.

00:24:32.740 You are right, and you are empowered by the Holy Spirit to be an ambassador for truth

00:24:39.180 in every sphere that you're in.

00:24:40.520 You are going to leave this day feeling so refreshed and so encouraged that no matter what

00:24:45.800 happens with the election, that you remember that God is working, that God has got his people.

00:24:52.080 So we as Christian women are coming together for that purpose, to share the arrows with each

00:24:56.120 other.

00:24:56.680 Come by yourself.

00:24:57.580 Come with your friends.

00:24:58.560 Come with your family.

00:24:59.580 It's going to be amazing.

00:25:01.800 Go to sharethearrows.com.

00:25:03.520 Check it out.

00:25:04.000 It's going to be awesome.

00:25:05.440 A couple other announcements.

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00:26:08.140 Before we get into this Pride stuff, we've got the guy from Jars of Clay.

00:26:12.800 Jars of Clay.

00:26:13.700 That Christian band.

00:26:15.820 I'm not going to start singing their music, but you remember Jars of Clay?

00:26:20.440 They are now out celebrating Pride.

00:26:23.980 Plus, we've got our favorite baby carrier company saying, yay, trans kids. 0.99

00:26:29.400 It's actually insane.

00:26:30.660 So we're going to look at that and respond to all of that in just a second.

00:26:43.700 Okay.

00:26:46.080 Jars of Clay lead singer, Dan Hasseltine.

00:26:49.440 I think that's how you pronounce his last name.

00:26:51.220 Post support for Pride Month.

00:26:53.620 Okay.

00:26:54.080 So I had to play this song for my team during the ad break before we came back because they

00:27:01.840 didn't know.

00:27:02.880 They didn't know the song Flood.

00:27:05.060 I really want to sing it, but I don't want to traumatize you.

00:27:08.740 So go and look on YouTube, Flood.

00:27:12.380 If you were a 90s kid and you listened to Christian music in the 90s like I did, then you will know

00:27:19.800 this song.

00:27:20.840 I guess, I don't know, the word of God did not flood into his heart quite enough, though,

00:27:26.300 because now he is celebrating Pride.

00:27:29.300 They are a Grammy award-winning and Dove award-winning Christian band.

00:27:33.660 And so the fact that he is coming out now, well, I don't know if he's actually coming

00:27:38.500 out, but he's coming out in support of Pride Month is pretty shocking and sad.

00:27:44.400 So we've got the Instagram post that he posted and he's wearing a shirt that says a pastor

00:27:50.400 with pride and he's with a child and then a woman and then another man who has Nashville

00:27:57.440 pride on his shirt.

00:27:59.260 And he wrote, Franklin Pride Festival was a little soggy today.

00:28:03.440 Glad to stop by for a brief moment and show my support.

00:28:07.320 One of the singer's followers took issue with the post saying, yeah, Jesus dined with sinners,

00:28:13.760 but this is not what, you know, biblical love looks like.

00:28:16.520 There were other comments saying the same thing.

00:28:18.600 So this St. Francis mission that is mentioned in his post, it meets in an Irish pub in downtown

00:28:26.740 Franklin and their mantra is that we're centered around the reconciling table of Jesus.

00:28:32.680 And since Jesus excludes no one, neither do we.

00:28:37.440 Well, it was Jesus who said that the gate is narrow that leads to life, right?

00:28:42.760 And the gate is wide that leads to death.

00:28:46.340 And so I'm just not sure if that's true.

00:28:48.120 Now, you might be right that he excluded no one in the call.

00:28:51.900 He was not afraid to dine with sinners.

00:28:54.580 He was not afraid to touch the bleeding woman.

00:28:58.020 He was not afraid to kneel down and lock eyes with the woman caught in adultery.

00:29:02.440 He was not afraid to be seen talking to the Samaritan woman at the well and telling her

00:29:07.620 everything about her life.

00:29:09.880 He was not afraid to mingle with people that the Jewish leaders at the time saw as unclean. 0.74

00:29:15.300 But he called each of these people to faith and repentance.

00:29:18.920 Why?

00:29:19.620 Because he loved them.

00:29:22.040 Over the years, this Jars of Clay singer has been outspoken regarding his support for the

00:29:26.220 LGBTQ community and same-sex so-called marriage.

00:29:29.540 In 2014, he tweeted,

00:29:30.520 Well, the slope has slipped, sir.

00:29:39.260 The slope has slipped.

00:29:40.300 We have slipped and we are going down into the abyss.

00:29:45.600 This is only 10 years after your tweet.

00:29:49.440 He says,

00:29:50.120 Tweet scripture verses to settle my questions of gay marriage isn't helpful.

00:29:53.600 Simple answers to complex questions equals meh.

00:29:56.300 Apparently, the truth of God's word is just too simple.

00:29:59.460 It's just too simple.

00:30:00.700 It's not nuanced enough.

00:30:02.500 It's not gray enough.

00:30:03.920 The God who created the universe, who created our bodies, who established marriage in the

00:30:07.760 beginning, he doesn't have a good enough answer.

00:30:10.440 This is a classic case of someone believing he can out-nice God and out-love God and out-compassion

00:30:16.940 God.

00:30:18.900 He also has said in a statement,

00:30:20.960 So many gay couples display more loving characteristics and healthy relationship practices than most

00:30:25.120 traditional married couples.

00:30:27.580 Okay.

00:30:28.220 Even if that were true, which I'm not sure that's true, but even if that were true, that

00:30:33.100 doesn't change what God's word says about our bodies and what marriage actually is. 0.99

00:30:38.300 Our friend, John Cooper, whom we've had on before, of course, he is the lead singer of

00:30:46.540 Skillet.

00:30:47.540 He says that this guy has exchanged truth for lies, good for evil, and flourishing for

00:30:53.060 anti-flourishing.

00:30:54.240 He actually wrote about this in his book, Wimpy, Weak, and Woke, How Truth Can Save America

00:30:59.300 from Utopian Destruction.

00:31:00.780 This is where he is talking about this Jars of Clay Singer.

00:31:03.580 He said,

00:31:04.000 When Haseltine tweeted in opposition to legislators attempting to ban books in public schools with

00:31:09.600 quote-unquote LGBTQ storylines, which are often pornographic, there's nothing that could

00:31:14.740 sum up our Christian deconstruction moment better than scriptural truth equals meh.

00:31:20.260 And so he is responding to that tweet that the singer put out because he was saying, this

00:31:27.520 Dan Haseltine person was saying, oh, what's wrong with these LGBTQ-themed books for kids?

00:31:35.580 And as we've talked about, many of these, if not all of these, are very sexual books.

00:31:40.820 They're not innocent books.

00:31:42.560 They are sexual books, some of them with pedophilic themes in them.

00:31:46.720 And so that was John Cooper calling him out.

00:31:49.220 Jars of Clay hasn't released an album since 2013.

00:31:51.920 But Haseltine has stayed busy composing music for Christian films and television series,

00:31:58.600 some of which include The Shift, The Chosen series, and the much-talked-about upcoming Dallas

00:32:03.180 Jenkins film, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

00:32:06.020 Now, I'm not condemning Dallas Jenkins for that.

00:32:09.780 I'm not sure that that is something that he even knew.

00:32:13.040 I'm not saying that Dallas Jenkins is supporting or endorsing the position of Dan Haseltine.

00:32:18.800 But it's interesting that Dan has continued to try to work in the Christian industry while

00:32:25.500 opposing very standard, fundamental biblical beliefs about sexuality and about human identity.

00:32:35.220 It is anti-human flourishing.

00:32:37.780 It is actually anti-love to take his position about LGBTQ, the God who created us, who created

00:32:46.040 the universe, who wants what's best for us, tells us in the very first chapter of the Bible,

00:32:51.100 biologically who we are and what marriage looks like.

00:32:54.960 And can we out-love God, Relata Fam? 1.00

00:32:57.640 No, we cannot out-love God because 1 John 4, 8 says he is love.

00:33:03.500 So this is yet another example of a singer deconstructing.

00:33:09.760 And we've seen a lot of these Christian singers do the same thing, unfortunately, in 2022.

00:33:16.120 Kevin MacSmith of the iconic group DC Talk also expressed support for Pride Month not too long

00:33:25.360 ago.

00:33:25.820 There have been several others.

00:33:27.940 Elisa Childers also talks about this.

00:33:31.000 She was part of Zoe Girl, and she is such an incredible apologist and an explainer of what

00:33:38.560 deconstruction is, how we can fight against it in our own lives, the dangers and the falsehoods

00:33:44.200 within what is called paradoxically progressive Christianity.

00:33:48.520 And so I'm thankful for people like Elisa Childers and John Cooper who have seen just the rot

00:33:54.260 and the lack of wisdom and the lack of strength and fortitude in the Christian music world and

00:34:00.740 have spoken directly into that, while we also, who are outside of the Christian music world,

00:34:06.900 get to benefit from it.

00:34:08.940 Look, I think that Christian music is an entertainment industry.

00:34:13.000 In the entertainment industry, you are going to have a lot of people who identify as LGBTQ.

00:34:18.420 And when people have some sort of either relationship with someone or their living is tied to someone

00:34:30.920 or the support of someone who identifies as LGBTQ, it is much harder for them to stand on the word 0.96

00:34:36.800 of God.

00:34:37.380 We talked about Lauren Daigle, who I think is super talented.

00:34:40.080 She seems like a really sweet person.

00:34:41.980 But a few years ago, she was asked about homosexuality, and she said she didn't know what God had to

00:34:47.660 say about it.

00:34:48.180 She doesn't know.

00:34:48.860 She said she didn't know where she stood on it.

00:34:50.920 She said that she had a lot of people that she knew and loved that were gay, and so there

00:34:55.120 wasn't really anything she had to say about it.

00:34:56.960 But again, the Bible is so abundantly and repetitively clear on that.

00:35:00.900 That's something that we should have an answer for.

00:35:03.020 We don't have to let God off the hook.

00:35:05.640 Like, we don't have to caveat him or make excuses for him or soften his word.

00:35:11.180 Gosh, he loves us so much, and he designs the things that he does.

00:35:14.500 He places the parameters and definitions that he does properly.

00:35:17.660 For our good and for his glory.

00:35:19.600 And if we don't trust that, do we really even believe in the gospel?

00:35:23.360 Like, do we even really believe it's good news?

00:35:26.000 If we feel like we have to apologize for God's word, like, then why do we call ourselves

00:35:31.560 Christians at all? 1.00

00:35:34.140 So don't be discouraged by that.

00:35:37.140 Don't be discouraged by the fact that this kind of deconstruction is happening.

00:35:41.640 Like, we read in Scripture that this is going to happen, that the wheat and the chaff will

00:35:47.320 be separated.

00:35:48.820 And we can pray for their repentance.

00:35:50.500 By the way, as long as they're still alive, there's still hope.

00:35:53.600 They can change their mind.

00:35:54.840 All of us have been wrong at one point.

00:35:57.060 We can pray for the Holy Spirit to work in their lives and to turn them back to truth.

00:36:01.620 But keep shining, because you never know whose mind you're going to change.

00:36:05.840 And I do just want to say, like, as an example of this, I got this really sweet letter from

00:36:11.500 a relatable listener over the weekend.

00:36:15.000 And I got to meet her briefly at YWLS.

00:36:18.480 And she said that she actually found me.

00:36:21.600 She talked about her upbringing and just the difficulty there and how she was raised by someone,

00:36:29.060 at least in part, who told her that the Bible was a lie.

00:36:32.460 And she found me as she was kind of exploring her faith in her close to adult years through

00:36:39.700 a YouTube channel that I won't even say the name of, that used to be dedicated in large

00:36:46.000 part to just tearing me down and talking about how awful and hateful I am.

00:36:50.580 This person considered herself a quote-unquote progressive Christian.

00:36:55.620 And this relatable listener actually found me through her watching her videos talk about

00:37:02.120 how awful I am.

00:37:03.360 And then when she started watching these videos, she heard the gospel.

00:37:08.720 And God worked through that.

00:37:11.000 And thank the Lord.

00:37:12.080 She is where she is today with her faith and with her understanding of biblical sexuality and

00:37:17.000 a biblical worldview.

00:37:18.780 I played a very small part in that.

00:37:21.360 But just continue being faithful and speaking truth, because you just never know how God is

00:37:27.720 using you as you are doing that.

00:37:30.400 Again, just to play an even a limited small role in someone's testimony is such an honor.

00:37:48.440 All right.

00:37:49.800 Ergo baby.

00:37:50.880 Maybe you say ergo baby.

00:37:52.600 Ergo, ergo.

00:37:53.500 Ergo, it's supposed to be like ergonomic, right?

00:37:57.500 And that's like how your baby is positioned in the baby carrier that they're trying to say

00:38:05.360 that it is healthy for their bodies and where their knees go and their joints and all of that.

00:38:10.400 And I have really liked Ergo Baby.

00:38:12.000 I have used many of their carriers over the years.

00:38:18.140 And I have one right now that I have used the most out of all of my carriers.

00:38:24.020 And but I will say because I said on Instagram that their carriers are mid and I'm going to

00:38:29.100 stand by that because I don't think that they are as versatile as they say that they are.

00:38:36.400 Like the weight ranges that they give you for those carriers, I don't think are extremely

00:38:42.960 accurate.

00:38:43.620 And the one that I have, I like it when they're little, when they get big, it just sags.

00:38:48.080 And so I stand by what I said on Instagram.

00:38:50.160 Ergo Baby is mid and they're even worse now because they posted in support of transgenderism 1.00

00:38:58.780 in children.

00:39:00.660 Okay, it's one thing to believe this nonsensical idea that a man can become a woman.

00:39:07.380 It is 10 times worse, I think, to believe that a boy can become a girl or a girl can 1.00

00:39:13.680 become a boy.

00:39:14.360 Now, in both cases, you're detached from reality because it's not possible to change your sex. 0.97

00:39:19.980 And no, gender and sex aren't different.

00:39:21.740 They are one in the same.

00:39:23.160 Gender comes from genre. 0.91

00:39:25.060 It's just another category of human sex.

00:39:27.620 There's no such thing as gender identity.

00:39:29.520 You are male or you are female. 0.63

00:39:32.300 It is not possible through chemical castration or cross-sex hormones or a double mastectomy

00:39:38.660 or a phalloplasty or whatever.

00:39:41.160 It is not possible to become the opposite sex.

00:39:43.920 It's not possible to become the opposite gender.

00:39:46.440 That is impossible.

00:39:48.700 And so, yes, I think to tell a man or a woman as a grown adult that they can do that, I think

00:39:53.080 that's evil because you're lying to them.

00:39:55.100 You're affirming something that is not true.

00:39:57.000 It's also bad for them.

00:39:58.280 It's like bad for their bodies.

00:40:01.100 But then to tell a child that who is not fully developed, whose frontal lobe isn't even close

00:40:07.340 to developing because we don't get there until we're 25, who at any given moment could think

00:40:13.580 that they are a Power Ranger or a summer squash.

00:40:18.940 To tell them that, yes, you can be the opposite sex, you can be a different gender, and we

00:40:25.320 are going to put you down that path. 0.60

00:40:28.080 It is evil.

00:40:29.120 It is so incredibly evil.

00:40:31.400 And Ergo Baby, who says that they are pro-family, they're pro-love, they're pro-baby, they make

00:40:35.600 these products for babies.

00:40:37.780 That's how they make their money.

00:40:39.040 They posted this on Instagram.

00:40:42.680 It says, raising a trans child. 0.89

00:40:46.420 Blah.

00:40:47.260 And this is supposed to take you to a blog post that they have.

00:40:51.640 And the caption says this, Jodi Patterson's family story is a story of authenticity, courage,

00:40:55.760 in love, at three years old, three, her third child told her they were a boy.

00:41:03.420 They were a boy.

00:41:05.240 It's to correctly say she was a boy.

00:41:08.080 And from there, the trajectory of what motherhood looked like shifted.

00:41:10.680 She had become a widely, she has become a widely thought after voice in the community

00:41:15.400 for LGBTQIA, how many can we, how many can we do, activism.

00:41:22.700 And we got to ask Jodi a few questions, yada, yada, yada.

00:41:25.300 I looked this person up.

00:41:27.340 This is just insane.

00:41:29.200 Three years old.

00:41:31.520 Three years old.

00:41:32.300 I want you to tell me in the comments on YouTube, if you have a three-year-old, if you have had

00:41:37.600 a three-year-old, all of the different stated identities that your child has had.

00:41:42.520 Like they've probably been all of the Paw Patrol characters at some point in their life.

00:41:47.340 They have probably been a variety of zoo animals.

00:41:50.400 They probably then moved on to different kind of safari animals.

00:41:53.160 Maybe at different points, they were different domesticated pets.

00:41:57.020 They probably said that they were a fireman.

00:42:00.740 They were a dragon.

00:42:01.940 They were all kinds of fantastical creatures.

00:42:04.700 Maybe they told you that they had a different name.

00:42:06.680 Maybe they told you that their legs don't work anymore.

00:42:08.600 And they started slithering on the floor and saying that they're a snake.

00:42:11.920 Maybe they started drinking water out of a bowl because they wanted to be like a puppy.

00:42:15.920 Like there are so many different things that our kids say.

00:42:20.440 My kids tell me that they're a mommy.

00:42:23.500 They're like, I'm a mommy.

00:42:24.700 I have a baby in my belly.

00:42:25.940 They say silly things all of the time that aren't true.

00:42:30.780 Okay.

00:42:31.160 I have a five-year-old and I have a three-year-old and then a baby.

00:42:35.980 And so I know what three-year-olds are like.

00:42:38.640 I know that they say silly things and they're just trying to figure out the world.

00:42:43.400 They're trying to figure out themselves.

00:42:45.160 They're trying to figure out the difference between male and female, mommy and daddy.

00:42:48.420 They're trying to put everything into categories.

00:42:50.600 They're trying to make sense of things.

00:42:52.160 And what do they come to us for?

00:42:53.600 They come to us for clarity.

00:42:55.580 They come to us for clarity.

00:42:57.200 They come to us and sometimes they will say things not as a question, but to test you. 0.97

00:43:04.060 They say something they know is ridiculous. 0.99

00:43:05.820 They know is silly. 0.98

00:43:06.860 Like they'll say at 4.30 right before you're going to have dinner, I'm going to have a cupcake. 0.90

00:43:13.140 And they just want to see what you're going to say.

00:43:15.560 They know that that's crazy.

00:43:17.160 They know it's not going to happen, but they're just testing you because they don't have boundaries

00:43:21.940 yet.

00:43:22.280 They're pushing.

00:43:23.160 They're figuring out what the boundaries are and they want to go to the outer perimeter

00:43:27.660 to see if someone's going to hold the line.

00:43:30.460 When it comes to the definitions of things, when it comes to rules, when it comes to what's

00:43:34.440 allowed, they're figuring out things like time, like language, like social skills.

00:43:40.060 All of that is still coming together for them at that young age of three.

00:43:45.080 So when a young child comes up to you and says that you're the opposite sex, you don't

00:43:50.620 say, yeah, that sounds great.

00:43:53.600 You probably are.

00:43:55.420 I'm going to go ahead and start calling you they.

00:43:57.700 And I am going to break all of the rules that I've taught you so far of grammar and sentence

00:44:02.540 structure, and I'm going to start calling you a plural, like you are like legion in the 0.83

00:44:09.100 Bible.

00:44:10.140 I'm going to start calling you the opposite pronoun. 1.00

00:44:12.080 I'm going to confuse all the friends.

00:44:13.520 I'm going to confuse all the teachers.

00:44:14.880 I'm going to confuse all the parents.

00:44:16.320 I'm going to confuse everybody.

00:44:17.900 And most importantly, I'm going to confuse you, child.

00:44:21.980 No, that's not what we offer our kids.

00:44:24.060 When our kids are confused, we offer them clarity.

00:44:26.140 We offer them the comfort that comes through clarity, not compounding their confusion with

00:44:32.640 more confusion that is cruel.

00:44:35.160 And I'm sure this person has good intentions.

00:44:38.720 Maybe.

00:44:39.520 I don't know.

00:44:40.760 That's the big benefit of the doubt there.

00:44:43.300 But I'm sure this person feels that they are loving their child.

00:44:47.540 I'm sure that they would do a lot for their child.

00:44:49.620 I'm sure that they would.

00:44:51.260 But this is cruel.

00:44:52.860 It is.

00:44:53.360 It is cruel.

00:44:54.320 Your three-year-old doesn't know.

00:44:56.140 Here's what the post goes on to say.

00:44:59.400 This is an excerpt of this blog post.

00:45:03.400 There is not a space in this world that is not entangled with bias.

00:45:06.700 Even in the most loving spaces, we still hold racism, sexism, transphobia.

00:45:10.880 Just as I, years ago, didn't fully see or understand my child, I still have blind spots.

00:45:16.060 The last slide says, a better way of leading, I found, is to encourage our people to experience

00:45:20.100 all of life.

00:45:21.180 This is insane.

00:45:22.080 Now I say to my children, where you go, I will follow.

00:45:28.440 Where you are, I will support.

00:45:30.260 What you know, I will learn.

00:45:34.000 Okay.

00:45:35.320 My child literally walked off of the couch the other day.

00:45:40.500 Like, just kept walking like it was the floor.

00:45:43.120 I, uh, is that the person I'm supposed to follow?

00:45:47.300 Do I follow that?

00:45:48.860 Are you going to follow your child into speeding traffic?

00:45:51.880 Are you following your child into a burning building?

00:45:55.720 Literally, figuratively?

00:45:57.460 No, that's not what, that is a disorder.

00:46:00.200 That's disorder.

00:46:01.620 That is not the order of things.

00:46:03.820 You were given to your child for their protection, to steward their hearts and minds, to offer

00:46:12.040 them clarity, to offer them protection.

00:46:14.700 Instead, you are feeding them to the lions.

00:46:17.460 And by the lions, in this case, I'm talking about the psychologist, the psychiatrist, the

00:46:21.440 endocrinologist, the LGBTQ activist, the journalist, the surgeons, all of the people that make lots

00:46:28.420 of money, get lots of clicks, get lots of accolades from butchering your child.

00:46:35.520 That's the opposite of your job.

00:46:39.200 You are supposed to prevent your child from becoming prey as much as you possibly can,

00:46:44.660 not feed them to the predators.

00:46:47.560 And we do all of this, we confuse and butcher children in the name of love.

00:46:52.840 It's not love.

00:46:54.340 It is the opposite of love.

00:46:56.160 She said that her child said to her, Mama, I love you, but I don't want to be you.

00:46:59.440 I want to be Papa.

00:47:01.800 And you took that to mean that your child is actually a boy?

00:47:08.440 She said that she responded in solidarity.

00:47:11.200 If your insides feel strong like a boy, then go ahead and act like a boy.

00:47:15.240 She said, my child quickly corrected me.

00:47:17.300 No, Mama, I don't feel like a boy.

00:47:18.820 I am a boy.

00:47:19.860 Doubt.

00:47:20.900 Doubt.

00:47:21.620 I don't believe you.

00:47:22.900 I don't believe you.

00:47:23.940 Your child is three.

00:47:24.960 Three.

00:47:25.760 Three.

00:47:26.760 Have you met a three-year-old?

00:47:29.580 No.

00:47:30.880 She goes on to say, but more importantly, I learned to relax and simply honor my son's

00:47:36.280 sense of self.

00:47:38.180 I simply wasn't interested in poking holes in his truth.

00:47:43.720 You should.

00:47:45.080 You should.

00:47:46.300 Because they don't have a truth.

00:47:47.920 Here's the thing.

00:47:48.480 Here's this weird thing that progressives do that I notice a lot.

00:47:52.000 And it actually starts with how they think about abortion, some of them.

00:47:56.380 And I'll get to that in a second.

00:47:57.880 But they think that children have this, it's a very new age belief.

00:48:02.560 They have this special knowledge.

00:48:04.700 They have this special profound wisdom.

00:48:07.620 And that they are closer to the truth than we are because they haven't been marred by society.

00:48:16.240 Because they haven't been conditioned into the gender binary cis hetero patriarchy racist

00:48:23.340 system yet.

00:48:23.960 And so they have more knowledge and wisdom.

00:48:28.800 And therefore, we need to just listen to them.

00:48:31.020 And whether they realize it or not, it actually comes from this belief that children are closer

00:48:35.280 to the other side.

00:48:36.680 I'm talking like transcendent, supernatural.

00:48:39.580 Like, because they came from the other side, they are now in the world, but they still have 1.00

00:48:49.040 like remnants in their spirit of the before life.

00:48:53.460 And again, I'm not saying that they all explicitly think this, but this is where this thinking comes

00:48:58.620 from.

00:48:58.800 And you hear this actually from some of them when you listen to them justify abortion.

00:49:03.700 Like, I've heard these spiritual people justify abortion by saying like, oh, my baby told 0.89

00:49:10.540 me it was okay to let go.

00:49:12.720 Or my baby chose me and I was so thankful for that, but I had to send them back.

00:49:19.040 I've heard that language multiple times from women trying to justify their abortion. 0.99

00:49:22.620 It's this very new age Eastern mystic voodoo way of thinking about things. 0.95

00:49:28.180 And it's just not true.

00:49:29.580 No.

00:49:30.680 Yes.

00:49:31.160 I mean, Jesus says that we should have faith like a child, and this is a perversion of that.

00:49:37.960 This is a perversion of that.

00:49:39.840 Yes, faith in Jesus, faith and the trust like a child who has to depend on God, like a child

00:49:47.720 depends on a parent.

00:49:50.160 But they have perverted that like they so often do.

00:49:53.720 And they say, no, we need to think like a child.

00:49:56.900 We need to follow children.

00:49:59.100 That's the opposite, really, of what Jesus says.

00:50:01.360 Jesus said that the children are following him in faith.

00:50:05.640 And this says that we have to follow children in faith.

00:50:09.720 No, thank you.

00:50:10.860 Our children need to follow us.

00:50:12.500 Can we respect what they feel?

00:50:15.240 Can we honor those emotions?

00:50:17.440 Can we affirm when they feel happy or sad or scared or disappointed?

00:50:21.980 And that can we talk with them through that?

00:50:23.680 Can we be sensitive to that?

00:50:25.300 Of course.

00:50:25.940 Can we be sympathetic?

00:50:27.780 Can we understand when they're struggling or when they're confused?

00:50:30.740 Yes.

00:50:30.980 I'm not saying that we need to shut them down every time they have a silly thought or every 0.76

00:50:35.920 time their imagination runs wild. 0.52

00:50:37.820 I'm not saying that.

00:50:39.400 But when it comes to affirming something that is harmful for them, affirming something that

00:50:42.840 is not true.

00:50:44.140 No, we stand firmly against that.

00:50:46.560 Well, people were very mad about this post.

00:50:49.020 They shut comments off because people were very upset.

00:50:51.140 But obviously, like you are affirming the chemical castration of and the butchering of bodies

00:50:56.200 of children.

00:50:57.380 Well, they posted this video in response.

00:51:01.820 And this is Sot 3.

00:51:03.540 Ergo Baby will always be a safe place where we will not tolerate hate of any kind.

00:51:08.040 We believe in playing our part in building a global community that is resilient.

00:51:12.360 Anti-racist.

00:51:13.740 Empathetic.

00:51:15.040 Inclusive.

00:51:15.560 And welcoming.

00:51:17.520 So our children can live openly in a secure world without fear.

00:51:21.020 I believe in the transformative power of love.

00:51:24.760 No, you just believe in transgenderism.

00:51:28.420 That's not the transformative power of love.

00:51:31.640 Love has the power to transform people.

00:51:34.060 That's absolutely true.

00:51:35.900 But God defines love and love does not rejoice in wrongdoing.

00:51:39.340 It rejoices in the truth.

00:51:40.560 First Corinthians 13 is not loving to lie to someone.

00:51:43.880 It's not loving to tell them that they were born in the wrong body.

00:51:47.060 In this age of self-love, telling a child, yeah, you were born in the wrong body.

00:51:52.800 How cruel.

00:51:54.520 How mean is that?

00:51:55.560 It's not possible to be born in the wrong body.

00:51:57.900 You know, you say, no, it's good to be a girl.

00:52:01.140 It's good to be a girl.

00:52:02.260 And you don't have to want to be mommy right now.

00:52:05.260 You're four years old.

00:52:06.660 That's not something that you need to think about yet.

00:52:09.480 But you're a girl.

00:52:10.980 And it is awesome being a girl.

00:52:12.760 You want to wear jeans and a t-shirt and go outside and play in the dirt?

00:52:16.340 Let's do that.

00:52:17.240 Let's catch some worms and caterpillars.

00:52:19.160 That sounds awesome.

00:52:21.020 But no, you are a girl.

00:52:22.220 God made you a girl. 0.95

00:52:24.140 It's good to be a girl.

00:52:25.940 You can say the same thing to your boy.

00:52:27.860 It's good to be a boy.

00:52:29.940 It's good to be a boy.

00:52:31.500 A lot of you ask me, what do I say to my child?

00:52:33.700 When they ask me X, Y, Z, you just affirm what God's word says in very simple and childlike

00:52:38.200 terms.

00:52:38.960 You don't have to explain to them everything that the lie is.

00:52:42.420 You don't have to explain to them what the world says, especially if they're in that

00:52:45.260 really young age.

00:52:46.240 We're laying a foundation of truth and goodness and beauty.

00:52:48.840 You don't need to talk about the lies quite yet.

00:52:51.500 You just lay a foundation of good truth, goodness, truth, and beauty.

00:52:56.260 Offer your child clarity in the place of confusion.

00:52:59.260 That is one of our most important roles as parents.

00:53:01.580 It's the most loving thing we can do.

00:53:02.760 So, all right, we're going to close out on just a little bit of Biden D-Day stuff, just

00:53:09.420 a state of the race, if you will, when it comes to our commander in chief.

00:53:15.820 And I'll just play you a video and quickly react to that.

00:53:18.100 Okay, so everyone last week was talking about First Lady Jill Biden and President Biden in

00:53:37.620 Normandy, France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S.-led Allied Forces D-Day invasion

00:53:44.540 invasion of Nazi-occupied France.

00:53:47.720 And I saw a lot of the videos and it just looked bad.

00:53:52.340 It just, he just looks bad.

00:53:55.380 And I'm not just saying that because I think his platform and party are evil. 0.98

00:54:00.960 He looks awful. 0.99

00:54:03.220 He looks awful.

00:54:04.500 We are hearing from Democrats, no, no, no, he's so sharp that WSJ, the Wall Street Journal

00:54:10.260 piece came out.

00:54:11.060 I think it was maybe the beginning of last week or maybe the week before saying, like,

00:54:15.840 yeah, Biden is slipping behind closed doors.

00:54:18.100 They had this long piece that after they talked to him for a long time, they just realized he's

00:54:22.120 slipping.

00:54:22.480 They gave lots of examples of that.

00:54:23.800 Democrats came after him and said, no, he's so sharp.

00:54:25.720 He's so strategic.

00:54:26.580 And I'm like, it would be awesome if we got to see that.

00:54:30.160 Like, I think it's an interesting campaign strategy to keep all of your cogent moments

00:54:33.920 behind doors instead of just like showing them to the public.

00:54:37.620 Like, like, I would love to see that side of Biden.

00:54:40.220 If we could see this sharp strategic side of Biden, then I would personally be just a

00:54:46.200 little bit comforted about the state of our country.

00:54:49.840 And yet here he is at this commemoration.

00:54:53.460 This is top four.

00:54:54.340 Distinguished guests, please welcome the Honorable Lloyd J.

00:55:07.380 Austin.

00:55:08.720 OK, so he's sitting in an invisible chair there.

00:55:13.300 He turns around and he looks for a chair that's not there and no one else was even trying to

00:55:18.520 sit.

00:55:18.880 So I'm not sure what he was trying to do.

00:55:20.260 Jill, with the classic mom move, she's covering her mouth like this so no one can read her 1.00

00:55:24.960 mouth.

00:55:25.300 And she's saying, sit up, stand up, stand up.

00:55:30.280 That's what she's doing.

00:55:31.340 I don't know that for sure, but I'm guessing because when you don't want people to read

00:55:35.760 your lips and you kind of casually cover your mouth like that to try to chastise her husband,

00:55:41.900 oh my goodness, that's what was going on there.

00:55:44.040 Then we have this other video of him randomly turning around and no one knows why.

00:55:49.300 So he really couldn't make it through the ceremony.

00:56:12.880 Now, I posted something on Twitter that some people were like, oh my gosh, that's a lie.

00:56:17.740 When I was like, Biden couldn't even get through the ceremony and these 98 year old World War

00:56:24.820 Two veterans, God bless them, could.

00:56:28.300 And while he did technically stay for the ceremony, he did have to leave a little bit before

00:56:36.220 Macron.

00:56:37.160 But he also couldn't.

00:56:38.460 What I meant was that he couldn't make it through cogently.

00:56:42.660 Like he couldn't just do his job and fulfill his duties there.

00:56:47.580 Like it was a mess.

00:56:48.860 It was very clear that he could not clearly manage everything that was happening, whereas

00:56:54.680 the 98 year olds could and did.

00:56:58.400 People were also talking about the fact that when he gave his speech, that it sounds almost

00:57:04.900 exactly like Reagan's speech 40 years ago.

00:57:09.780 Here's top five.

00:57:10.980 At last the hour had come.

00:57:14.320 Dawn.

00:57:15.800 6th of June.

00:57:17.540 1944.

00:57:19.280 At dawn on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944.

00:57:22.820 225 American Rangers arrived by ship, jumped into the waves and stormed the beach.

00:57:32.180 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.

00:57:38.820 Okay, so that sounds exactly like the Gipper, but of course he's not.

00:57:43.120 He will never, ever, ever come anywhere close to Reagan just as far as his rhetorical abilities.

00:57:51.040 Reagan was a little bit younger in that clip, but remember, Reagan at the age of 71 there,

00:57:57.040 he was criticized for his age when he was running.

00:58:01.380 They were saying that he was too old, and of course he was actually with it enough to

00:58:06.380 be able to make a joke about it, to be able to make a joke in one of the debates, I think,

00:58:10.480 when he was running the second time.

00:58:12.320 I think, if I remember correctly, the debate moderator asked, like, what do you say when

00:58:16.720 people, you know, they point out your age?

00:58:20.680 And he made a joke saying, I'm not going to exploit the youth of my opponent, when obviously

00:58:28.400 they were talking about Reagan's age, and he knew that.

00:58:31.560 But I just love how he deflected that, and everyone laughed.

00:58:35.760 Even his opponent laughed.

00:58:36.940 That was such a different time.

00:58:38.860 But there are some policy issues that I have with Ronald Reagan, but what an incredible

00:58:44.780 man, what an incredible speaker.

00:58:46.860 And it's just sad that Biden would even try just a little bit to emulate him, or try to

00:58:53.700 replicate him, rather, in any way.

00:58:57.280 The election's coming up, y'all.

00:58:58.600 We got a lot of politics to talk about.

00:59:00.380 We're going to be a lot more political over the next few months than we have been over the

00:59:04.240 past few months, because we've got to be.

00:59:06.360 Politics matter, because policy matters, because people matter, which means politicians matter.

00:59:10.840 And the ability of our leader to actually think and talk really matters.

00:59:16.400 All right, that's all we got time for today.

00:59:17.840 See you guys back here tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 10, 2024

Ep 1016 ｜ Time to Ditch Ergobaby

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