Ep 1016 ｜ Time to Ditch Ergobaby
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about Christian Courage and the consequences of going off script during a speech. A recent high school graduate was denied his diploma for five days because he went off script in his speech. Also, the lead singer for Jars of Clay is celebrating pride. But we ve got some great examples of Christian Courage too!
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Ergo Baby, a popular baby carrier company, has come out in favor of quote-unquote trans children.
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Also, the lead singer for Jars of Clay is celebrating pride.
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But we've got some great examples of Christian courage, too.
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A recent high school graduate sharing the gospel during his commencement speech.
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We've got all of this and much, much more on today's episode of Relatable.
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It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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For all of you who were at Young Women's Leadership Summit this weekend in San Antonio, it was wonderful
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And I'm so glad that y'all had such a wonderful time there.
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And it was really just a privilege and an honor to speak with you guys and to meet y'all.
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So thank you so much for all of you who came up to me afterwards and we had great conversations.
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We're just going to get straight into everything that we have to talk about.
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And we're actually going to talk about some good things that are happening.
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I guess there's some good and some bad in the stories that we are addressing first, but
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And they are stories of God using his willing and obedient people to make a difference.
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And yes, these obedient Christians have gotten pushback and have faced consequences because
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of these things, but they serve as an example to us.
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And the first example of this Christian courage is a young man named Micah Price.
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He was, according to him, denied his high school diploma for praising Jesus in his high school
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So he is a recent graduate from the Campbell County High School, and he says his school
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withheld his diploma for five days after he went off script during the closing speech of
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Price was chosen by the school's principal to deliver the speech.
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He submitted eight different drafts of his speech before graduation day, and he was told
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after he submitted these drafts to take out portions that focused heavily on the
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And so they had actually approved part of the speech that mentioned Jesus Christ, but no
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further religious references were supposed to be made in this speech.
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And so when he actually delivered his speech, he did say the part that was approved, but he
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Class, before another word is to leave my mouth, I must get the honor, the praise, and the glory
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of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who in this very word tells us he is the way, the truth,
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Class, anyone in the audience today, I'm here to tell you that if you don't have any of those
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things in your life, you can't seem to find the answer, that my Lord and Savior is your
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He will give you the truth, give you the way, and the life.
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I don't know if you guys can feel that, but I just can feel the Holy Spirit speaking through
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him, and he said it so concisely and so beautifully, and you just never know how God is going to
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use the seeds that were planted through those simple words.
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You just never know how that is going to take root in the hearts of the audience there.
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I promise you that the people there who heard that, that God providentially placed them there
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He has always, he says, had a desire to honor God.
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One of his goals since fifth grade was to deliver a speech on his graduation day that honored
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God, which is pretty incredible that God put that dream, that desire in his heart.
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In eighth grade, he became a devout Christian, a Baptist in particular.
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Price said that he went to get the envelope with his diploma after the ceremony, after
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he finished his speech, and the principal tapped him on the shoulder and told him he would have
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And so he says, I knew my diploma was going to be held.
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Before you do anything they tell us, if you go up there and do a cartwheel or something stupid,
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So I guess they put his speech in that same category.
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So he knew that the consequences would possibly be if he went off script that he would get
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But he said, I simply cannot hold back what Christ has done in my life.
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I never wanted to bring hate to them or to tear down the school.
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It's a weird feeling being the talk of the town, he says on TikTok, but he's not apologizing.
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He says, I'm not here to push a political agenda.
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He said he knows he went against the rules of conduct, the Campbell County code, and yet
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He did end up receiving his diploma five days later, but he paid the price for going against
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And most people would not even pay that price to share the gospel.
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And they actually think that following these kind of arbitrary rules set by this school
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That Christ is somehow more honored by following these rules than he would be by someone sharing
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And most people, Christians even, wouldn't have done this, even if it hadn't been against
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the rules, because most people don't even want to pay the price of awkwardness.
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We've counted the cost of sharing the gospel, and we decided that the only cost to be paid
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in one particular moment was that we might feel uncomfortable, or that it might be awkward,
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or someone might roll their eyes, or someone might put their headphones in, or someone might
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And he decided it's worth the awkwardness, it's worth the backlash, it's maybe worth
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the loss of friendships, and it's worth my diploma getting held.
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And this might seem like a small thing, but if we're honest, I think we've all been in
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some kind of position where we have decided not even to pay a little price to share the
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And so I just want to commend him for his faith and praise God that through the power
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of the Holy Spirit, he was given the courage to say these words.
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And I think that we can look to the example of this young man and say, okay, with whatever
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platform God has given me, whether it's at a podium, behind a microphone, or whether it's
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at home discipling your children, whether it's in the workplace, whatever it is, big influence
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or small, a large audience, or just an audience of one person, how is God calling me?
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How has he prepared me in this moment to share the truth of Christ?
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And just on that note, I have in the past, because I have felt so much pressure to share
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the whole gospel and every evangelistic conversation and to make sure I have all the answers to the
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questions and make sure I say everything right, and that I lay out the Romans road perfectly
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I have been too scared to say what is true, but I want to relieve the pressure a little
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There's this great book, and it's called Tactics by Greg Kokel, and he talks about how the point
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of every conversation that we have with someone, conversations with someone that we may disagree
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with, that we may not know, whose mind we're trying to change, we're trying to demonstrate
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the truth to them in some way, is not necessarily to win that conversation, that discussion at that
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Our job is to plant a seed, which means that we might only, in that one interaction, share a
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little bit of truth or ask a question that causes them to think about something that they've never
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Whether we're talking about the gospel, whether we're talking about abortion, whether we're
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talking about gender, all of these big existential so-called culture war issues that really come
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down to biblical issues, it's not necessarily to convince them fully of your true position
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It's to plant a seed, because God is only using you in that person's life.
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If God has decided that he is going to turn a heart of stone to a heart of flesh, he is going
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And so he has already mapped out the constellation of that person's testimony.
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He already has lined up all of the Christians that that person is going to interact with over
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the next however many months or years until that person repents and turns to Christ.
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So we just have to be obedient in the moment with the truth that we can share and let us
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not say, well, I'm just not going to say anything because I can't share the full gospel.
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Maybe you're just sharing a little bit of truth.
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Maybe you're teeing it up for the next person who God is going to give the opportunity to share
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Maybe the next person is just going to push the ball even further down the field.
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We are just one person, one domino in someone's testimony.
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So just remember that, that one God is in charge of it.
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So we don't have to say things perfectly or eloquently, even though it's really good to
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prepare and to know the word and to have a reasonable answer for the faith that we have.
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But also you're just one person in someone's entire testimony.
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This young man is just one person and someone in the audience, their entire testimony.
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It might be 50 years that someone looks back and says, I don't know why I remember this,
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but I just remember what our commencement speaker, I don't even remember what his name was,
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what our commencement speaker said at graduation and that always stuck with me and I didn't get
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I've interviewed so many people who are former atheists, former porn stars, former so-called
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transgender people, people who were totally lost in a variety of ways.
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And when they're sharing their testimonies of how they came to faith, there's always
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some kind of moment that they look back on and they didn't realize at the time that it
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They didn't know that it was going to leave an indelible mark on their mind.
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And now in retrospect, they look back and they say, yeah, God used that moment when that person
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said that one thing that I didn't get at the time to then start changing my heart.
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And this is a case of God's work actually making headlines.
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But this kind of thing is common in the life of the believer.
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Even when it seems like everything is going to hell in a handbasket, God is using the
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common courage of Christians on a daily basis to advance his kingdom.
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God's eternal plan of redemption is always going off without a hitch.
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It's a much shorter example, but I just love the example that this NBA coach sets for just
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like how to pivot away from divisive kind of conversations and ask questions that make
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If you are not familiar, he was asked during a press conference on Saturday if he had any
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thoughts about what it meant to him to go up against another black head coach.
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This is the kind of like race baiting stuff that the press loves.
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Of course, he was referencing the Mavs coach, Jason Kidd.
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For the first time since 1975, this is the NBA finals where you have two black head coaches.
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Given the plight sometimes of black head coaches in the NBA, do you think this is a significant
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I wonder how many of those have been Christian coaches.
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And I think the reporter didn't even know what to say.
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I think it seems like the point that he's making is like, why are we calling out racial
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Like, why are we calling out the color of people's skin?
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If that matters, shouldn't something much more important matter?
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What someone holds in their heart, the faith that they have, where they actually get their
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And so I think it seems to me what he's trying to say is like, that doesn't really matter.
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Um, it's also interesting to note just the language that he used.
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He said, like, do you think this is a significant moment?
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You're going against this black Mavs head coach.
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Um, do you take pride in this, uh, given the plight, given the plight of black coaches
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in the NBA, um, the plight that implies that there has been some kind of struggle or oppression
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And it's important to note that black coaches in the NBA, at least today, they're doing
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pretty well for themselves in terms of contracts.
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Last season, 10 of the top 20 coaches have earned the most money that, um, to have earned
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Maybe it wasn't always that way, but right now it is.
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Of course, also the NBA itself is disproportionately black Americans that get paid a lot of money.
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And so I just appreciate that he didn't take the bait, um, didn't take the bait on that.
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Um, Vincent Goodwill, he's the reporter who asked the question.
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He wrote in his column Saturday night that Missoula's unwillingness to discuss race was
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He said, Missoula, who's mixed race, preferred to sidestep my question, giving deference to
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And I know I said racial identity earlier, but I do, I shouldn't have said that in that
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context because I don't agree with that language.
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It might have influenced in some ways how you experienced the world.
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I'm not denying that, but it is not your identity.
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I think God gave us the color of our skin, the melanin count that we have purposely and
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with intention and with love, but it's not your identity.
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It's interesting how he says religion, racial identity, not religious identity and race,
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And he clearly thinks that racial identity is more important.
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And of course, this is true of a lot of racial activists in the United States.
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They really do worship skin color and racial identity, so-called.
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He says his relationship with his own racial identity is personal, but his answer certainly
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I didn't hear you, especially because it's Boston and the NBA's labor force is overwhelmingly
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Ignoring race in these matters isn't progress because it can infer that seeing someone as
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And seeing someone's blackness or the black experience as a positive could be the ultimate
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This is the whole Ibram X. Kendi anti-racist thing that we have to see someone's non-whiteness
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actually as a positive asset that should be added to the resume rather than a kind of
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And, you know, Coleman Hughes has been talking about and writing about colorblindness for a
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long time and the importance of colorblindness.
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And he has clarified many times that he doesn't actually mean that we don't see skin color
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or that we cannot appreciate different cultures and we can't appreciate the different ethnicities
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or different nationalities or even just different melanin counts.
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But when it comes to weighing someone's character, when it comes to weighing someone's competence,
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when it comes to hiring, when it comes to admissions, that we don't need to add extra value to someone's
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skin color, whether they're white, black, Asian, Hispanic.
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And there is a reason why Lady Justice has a blindfold.
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And of course, as we talked about last week, as we've talked about many times, impartiality
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Showing partiality to someone because of their skin color, their socioeconomic background,
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their perceived oppression status, is unjust, even if you are doing so allegedly to make
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Current injustice does not make up for or serve as reparations for past injustice.
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He goes on to say, this reporter who's very mad about this,
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Missoula has the right to embrace his religion, lean on it to help in his professional and personal
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He has the right to look in the mirror and not see a black man first, but a Christian
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But if he's pulled over in Boston, the police will see his last name and his license.
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But before they find out anything else about him, they'll see him as a black man first.
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It's not grounded in the real information that we have about police interactions with
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Are there I'm sure that there are cops who have a racial bias.
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Yes, I'm sure there are people in all kinds of sectors that have a racial bias.
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I'm not denying that that can manifest itself in negative ways.
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As we've also talked about, there is a lot of blatant and outright anti-white bias that
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manifests itself in things like affirmative action.
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But to say that, you know, for sure that police officers are going to see him as a black
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Missoula, he took over as the Celtics head coach for the 2022-2023 season.
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I have no idea what that is, but he spoke with him a year ago and he said this.
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I know that for my wife and I and my family, we're supposed to be here.
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And we felt like we followed God's plan to a T as to where he wanted us to be.
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And he's talked about his faith before in other contacts.
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And I've just appreciated that about him, not as someone who knows, you know, very much
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I always appreciate when people use their public platform to share their faith and to push back
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And by the way, like, this is just a PR tip, okay?
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If you are ever in this situation, and maybe it applies to situations beyond just interviews,
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you never have to answer the interviewer's question.
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Whether it's an interview on a podcast, on a news show, whether you're talking to a reporter,
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It's only because, like, we feel awkward and we feel like it's polite to answer someone's
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But if you don't know the answer to something or you don't want to answer their question,
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You make them think about their question and you can just push back on them that way.
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And I like how he didn't feel like he had to give any other explanation at all.
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Before we get into some pride update, if you will, of what is going on in that crazy,
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crazy world, I want to tell you just a few things.
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One, our Share the Arrows event, which I am so excited about, is September 28th.
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And then we've got Francesca Battistelli, the Grammy Award winning artist.
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I'm going to be giving a speech and I'm going to be meeting so many of y'all.
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Y'all bring all of the moms in your kids' school.
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Bring your family members, fly them in, drive there if you can.
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Of course, if you are local to Dallas, Texas, then that is even more convenient for you.
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There are also packages included where there's a little bit more that you can purchase and
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So many of you, when I've spoken at different places over the past few weeks, have told me,
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oh my gosh, I'm coming with my sister or I'm coming by myself.
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And it is a time for us as Christian women to just make sure that we're on the same page.
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We're seeing so much propaganda that's only going to ramp up.
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The fear mongering is going to be through the roof.
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The propaganda when it comes to things like abortion and gender and all of that is going
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All of your Christian women friends are going to be using what I call toxic empathy to manipulate
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you into thinking that if you love the quote unquote marginalized, if you really love people,
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if you're really compassionate, if you're really empathetic, then there's no way that you
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could vote for Donald Trump, that you have to be progressive in order to be a good person
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and even a good Christian, and you are going to want to be tearing your hair out, trying
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to fight all of these battles with people in your life to make sure that they know the
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We have to come together to remind ourselves we're not alone.
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We've got all of these like-minded women across the country that are sharing the arrows with
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You are right, and you are empowered by the Holy Spirit to be an ambassador for truth
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You are going to leave this day feeling so refreshed and so encouraged that no matter what
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happens with the election, that you remember that God is working, that God has got his people.
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So we as Christian women are coming together for that purpose, to share the arrows with each
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Before we get into this Pride stuff, we've got the guy from Jars of Clay.
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I'm not going to start singing their music, but you remember Jars of Clay?
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Plus, we've got our favorite baby carrier company saying, yay, trans kids.
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So we're going to look at that and respond to all of that in just a second.
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I think that's how you pronounce his last name.
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So I had to play this song for my team during the ad break before we came back because they
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I really want to sing it, but I don't want to traumatize you.
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If you were a 90s kid and you listened to Christian music in the 90s like I did, then you will know
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I guess, I don't know, the word of God did not flood into his heart quite enough, though,
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They are a Grammy award-winning and Dove award-winning Christian band.
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And so the fact that he is coming out now, well, I don't know if he's actually coming
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out, but he's coming out in support of Pride Month is pretty shocking and sad.
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So we've got the Instagram post that he posted and he's wearing a shirt that says a pastor
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with pride and he's with a child and then a woman and then another man who has Nashville
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And he wrote, Franklin Pride Festival was a little soggy today.
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Glad to stop by for a brief moment and show my support.
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One of the singer's followers took issue with the post saying, yeah, Jesus dined with sinners,
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but this is not what, you know, biblical love looks like.
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There were other comments saying the same thing.
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So this St. Francis mission that is mentioned in his post, it meets in an Irish pub in downtown
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Franklin and their mantra is that we're centered around the reconciling table of Jesus.
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And since Jesus excludes no one, neither do we.
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Well, it was Jesus who said that the gate is narrow that leads to life, right?
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Now, you might be right that he excluded no one in the call.
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He was not afraid to kneel down and lock eyes with the woman caught in adultery.
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He was not afraid to be seen talking to the Samaritan woman at the well and telling her
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He was not afraid to mingle with people that the Jewish leaders at the time saw as unclean.
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But he called each of these people to faith and repentance.
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Over the years, this Jars of Clay singer has been outspoken regarding his support for the
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LGBTQ community and same-sex so-called marriage.
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We have slipped and we are going down into the abyss.
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Tweet scripture verses to settle my questions of gay marriage isn't helpful.
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Simple answers to complex questions equals meh.
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Apparently, the truth of God's word is just too simple.
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The God who created the universe, who created our bodies, who established marriage in the
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beginning, he doesn't have a good enough answer.
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This is a classic case of someone believing he can out-nice God and out-love God and out-compassion
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So many gay couples display more loving characteristics and healthy relationship practices than most
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Even if that were true, which I'm not sure that's true, but even if that were true, that
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doesn't change what God's word says about our bodies and what marriage actually is.
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Our friend, John Cooper, whom we've had on before, of course, he is the lead singer of
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He says that this guy has exchanged truth for lies, good for evil, and flourishing for
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He actually wrote about this in his book, Wimpy, Weak, and Woke, How Truth Can Save America
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This is where he is talking about this Jars of Clay Singer.
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When Haseltine tweeted in opposition to legislators attempting to ban books in public schools with
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quote-unquote LGBTQ storylines, which are often pornographic, there's nothing that could
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sum up our Christian deconstruction moment better than scriptural truth equals meh.
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And so he is responding to that tweet that the singer put out because he was saying, this
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Dan Haseltine person was saying, oh, what's wrong with these LGBTQ-themed books for kids?
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And as we've talked about, many of these, if not all of these, are very sexual books.
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They are sexual books, some of them with pedophilic themes in them.
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Jars of Clay hasn't released an album since 2013.
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But Haseltine has stayed busy composing music for Christian films and television series,
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some of which include The Shift, The Chosen series, and the much-talked-about upcoming Dallas
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Now, I'm not condemning Dallas Jenkins for that.
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I'm not sure that that is something that he even knew.
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I'm not saying that Dallas Jenkins is supporting or endorsing the position of Dan Haseltine.
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But it's interesting that Dan has continued to try to work in the Christian industry while
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opposing very standard, fundamental biblical beliefs about sexuality and about human identity.
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It is actually anti-love to take his position about LGBTQ, the God who created us, who created
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the universe, who wants what's best for us, tells us in the very first chapter of the Bible,
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biologically who we are and what marriage looks like.
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No, we cannot out-love God because 1 John 4, 8 says he is love.
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So this is yet another example of a singer deconstructing.
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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
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She was part of Zoe Girl, and she is such an incredible apologist and an explainer of what
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deconstruction is, how we can fight against it in our own lives, the dangers and the falsehoods
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within what is called paradoxically progressive Christianity.
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And so I'm thankful for people like Elisa Childers and John Cooper who have seen just the rot
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and the lack of wisdom and the lack of strength and fortitude in the Christian music world and
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have spoken directly into that, while we also, who are outside of the Christian music world,
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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.
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And when people have some sort of either relationship with someone or their living is tied to someone
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or the support of someone who identifies as LGBTQ, it is much harder for them to stand on the word
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We talked about Lauren Daigle, who I think is super talented.
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
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She said she didn't know where she stood on it.
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She said that she had a lot of people that she knew and loved that were gay, and so there
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wasn't really anything she had to say about it.
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But again, the Bible is so abundantly and repetitively clear on that.
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That's something that we should have an answer for.
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Like, we don't have to caveat him or make excuses for him or soften his word.
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Gosh, he loves us so much, and he designs the things that he does.
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He places the parameters and definitions that he does properly.
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And if we don't trust that, do we really even believe in the gospel?
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Like, do we even really believe it's good news?
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If we feel like we have to apologize for God's word, like, then why do we call ourselves
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Don't be discouraged by the fact that this kind of deconstruction is happening.
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Like, we read in Scripture that this is going to happen, that the wheat and the chaff will
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By the way, as long as they're still alive, there's still hope.
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We can pray for the Holy Spirit to work in their lives and to turn them back to truth.
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But keep shining, because you never know whose mind you're going to change.
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And I do just want to say, like, as an example of this, I got this really sweet letter from
00:36:21.600
She talked about her upbringing and just the difficulty there and how she was raised by someone,
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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
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And then when she started watching these videos, she heard the gospel.
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She is where she is today with her faith and with her understanding of biblical sexuality and
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But just continue being faithful and speaking truth, because you just never know how God is
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Again, just to play an even a limited small role in someone's testimony is such an honor.
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.
00:38:12.000
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
00:38:43.620
And the one that I have, I like it when they're little, when they get big, it just sags.
00:38:50.160
Ergo Baby is mid and they're even worse now because they posted in support of transgenderism
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
00:39:14.360
Now, in both cases, you're detached from reality because it's not possible to change your sex.
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It is not possible through chemical castration or cross-sex hormones or a double mastectomy
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It's not possible to become the opposite gender.
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And so, yes, I think to tell a man or a woman as a grown adult that they can do that, I think
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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
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And Ergo Baby, who says that they are pro-family, they're pro-love, they're pro-baby, they make
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And this is supposed to take you to a blog post that they have.
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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.
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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.
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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.
00:42:04.700
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.
00:42:25.940
They say silly things all of the time that aren't true.
00:42:31.160
I have a five-year-old and I have a three-year-old and then a baby.
00:42:38.640
I know that they say silly things and they're just trying to figure out the world.
00:42:45.160
They're trying to figure out the difference between male and female, mommy and daddy.
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They're trying to put everything into categories.
00:42:57.200
They come to us and sometimes they will say things not as a question, but to test you.
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Like they'll say at 4.30 right before you're going to have dinner, I'm going to have a cupcake.
00:43:13.140
And they just want to see what you're going to say.
00:43:17.160
They know it's not going to happen, but they're just testing you because they don't have boundaries
00:43:23.160
They're figuring out what the boundaries are and they want to go to the outer perimeter
00:43:30.460
When it comes to the definitions of things, when it comes to rules, when it comes to what's
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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
00:43:55.420
I'm going to go ahead and start calling you they.
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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
00:44:10.140
I'm going to start calling you the opposite pronoun.
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And most importantly, I'm going to confuse you, child.
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
00:44:43.300
But I'm sure this person feels that they are loving their child.
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I'm sure that they would do a lot for their child.
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
00:45:22.080
Now I say to my children, where you go, I will follow.
00:45:35.320
My child literally walked off of the couch the other day.
00:45:43.120
I, uh, is that the person I'm supposed to follow?
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?
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You were given to your child for their protection, to steward their hearts and minds, to offer
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.
00:46:39.200
You are supposed to prevent your child from becoming prey as much as you possibly can,
00:46:47.560
And we do all of this, we confuse and butcher children in the name 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.
00:47:01.800
And you took that to mean that your child is actually a boy?
00:47:11.200
If your insides feel strong like a boy, then go ahead and act like a boy.
00:47:30.880
She goes on to say, but more importantly, I learned to relax and simply honor my son's
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I simply wasn't interested in poking holes in his truth.
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.
00:47:57.880
But they think that children have this, it's a very new age belief.
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
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And whether they realize it or not, it actually comes from this belief that children are closer
00:48:39.580
Like, because they came from the other side, they are now in the world, but they still have
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
00:48:58.800
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
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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.
00:49:22.620
It's this very new age Eastern mystic voodoo way of thinking about things.
00:49:31.160
I mean, Jesus says that we should have faith like a child, and this is a perversion of that.
00:49:39.840
Yes, faith in Jesus, faith and the trust like a child who has to depend on God, like a child
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.
00:49:59.100
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.
00:50:17.440
Can we affirm when they feel happy or sad or scared or disappointed?
00:50:27.780
Can we understand when they're struggling or when they're confused?
00:50:30.980
I'm not saying that we need to shut them down every time they have a silly thought or every
00:50:39.400
But when it comes to affirming something that is harmful for them, affirming something that
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
00:51:03.540
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.
00:51:17.520
So our children can live openly in a secure world without fear.
00:51:35.900
But God defines love and love does not rejoice in wrongdoing.
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.
00:51:55.560
It's not possible to be born in the wrong body.
00:52:02.260
And you don't have to want to be mommy right now.
00:52:06.660
That's not something that you need to think about yet.
00:52:12.760
You want to wear jeans and a t-shirt and go outside and play in the dirt?
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
00:52:38.960
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
00:52:46.240
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.
00:53:02.760
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
00:53:47.720
And I saw a lot of the videos and it just looked bad.
00:53:55.380
And I'm not just saying that because I think his platform and party are evil.
00:54:04.500
We are hearing from Democrats, no, no, no, he's so sharp that WSJ, the Wall Street Journal
00:54:11.060
I think it was maybe the beginning of last week or maybe the week before saying, like,
00:54:18.100
They had this long piece that after they talked to him for a long time, they just realized he's
00:54:23.800
Democrats came after him and said, no, he's so sharp.
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.
00:54:54.340
Distinguished guests, please welcome the Honorable Lloyd J.
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
00:55:20.260
Jill, with the classic mom move, she's covering her mouth like this so no one can read her
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
00:56:28.300
And while he did technically stay for the ceremony, he did have to leave a little bit before
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.
00:56:48.860
It was very clear that he could not clearly manage everything that was happening, whereas
00:56:58.400
People were also talking about the fact that when he gave his speech, that it sounds almost
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,
00:58:12.320
I think, if I remember correctly, the debate moderator asked, like, what do you say when
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.
00:58:38.860
But there are some policy issues that I have with Ronald Reagan, but what an incredible
00:58:46.860
And it's just sad that Biden would even try just a little bit to emulate him, or try to
00:59:00.380
We're going to be a lot more political over the next few months than we have been over the
00:59:06.360
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.