Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 23, 2019


Ep 154 ｜ Planned Parenthood Loves Abortion


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29 minutes

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183.95197

Word Count

5,392

Sentence Count

323

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, happy Friday and welcome to Relatable. Today we are going to talk first about Title
00:00:06.700 10 and Planned Parenthood. This is actually a Q&A episode, but this is one of the questions
00:00:11.620 that I received and since it is relevant to what has happened this week, I want to talk
00:00:16.820 about it. So now we are going to answer the first question that I received and that is
00:00:21.900 Title 10 and Planned Parenthood. So Title 10, if you don't know, is a federal program
00:00:26.260 that was established in 1970 under Richard Nixon to help low income people access contraception.
00:00:32.480 It was actually implemented with pretty sinister motives if you look into it and they were to
00:00:39.300 prevent as many poor people as possible from procreating. That is true. You can look that
00:00:43.480 up. It's kind of crazy for us to think about now. They actually thought that that was a good thing
00:00:48.440 and would help society. So Title 10 funds, about $286 million per year is sent to or are sent to
00:00:58.200 health centers that provide these kinds of family planning services. And this includes Planned
00:01:03.220 Parenthood centers. So Planned Parenthood typically receives about $60 million per year of Title 10
00:01:10.340 funds. They receive millions of dollars from Medicaid reimbursements to each year. Title 10 money
00:01:15.740 technically is not allowed to be used to directly fund abortions, although we know that money is
00:01:22.840 fungible. So by giving any amount to Planned Parenthood, we are funding abortion with our
00:01:27.920 tax dollars. That's what pro-lifers have been saying for a very long time. That's what we're
00:01:31.780 talking about. And that's why we say to defund Planned Parenthood. So the Trump administration
00:01:36.960 actually took a step to ensure that that is actually happening, that these federal dollars
00:01:42.460 are not funding abortion. This is from the Wall Street Journal. The rule called for clinics that
00:01:47.900 received federal family planning funding to physically separate their abortion services
00:01:52.260 in a separate building from all other services and not to refer patients for abortions. So the Trump
00:02:00.200 administration says to Planned Parenthood, look, you can keep receiving these Title 10 funds, but you've got
00:02:05.160 to fully separate your abortion services and you cannot make abortion referrals. Pretty simple.
00:02:10.960 You can talk about all the options. They can still talk about abortion. So their physicians can still
00:02:16.120 talk about abortion. They can talk about it as an option. They can talk about what abortion is,
00:02:22.040 but they cannot actively encourage a patient to go and get an abortion. So what does Planned Parenthood do
00:02:28.620 with this new rule that is being implemented? They reject the Title 10 funds, the $60 million a year
00:02:35.720 that are going to their various clinics. They reject these funds because of this, which shows us
00:02:40.940 just how desperately, in case we didn't know, just how obsessively they want to be able to
00:02:46.420 encourage women to abort their children, that they would reject millions of dollars in favor of more
00:02:51.760 abortions, probably putting women that actually go there for health care services at a disadvantage.
00:02:58.100 This is from National Review. This is a quote. This isn't the first time the group has displayed
00:03:03.700 recalcatrance. That's a great word. Recalcatrance on this question. In the spring of 2017,
00:03:09.100 Ivanka Trump met with then Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards and suggested compromise,
00:03:14.580 um, suggested compromise. Planned Parenthood should split into two financially distinct groups,
00:03:19.660 one with a smaller arm to provide abortions and the other to provide women's health care,
00:03:24.000 the latter of which could retain government funding. According to a New York Times report,
00:03:28.800 Richards refused. Planned Parenthood officials said that they thought Ms. Trump's advice was naive,
00:03:34.660 failing to understand how central reproductive choice was to the group's mission. How central
00:03:41.900 reproductive choice, read abortion, was to the group's mission. So what we already knew is
00:03:49.900 drastically confirmed by this decision by Planned Parenthood, that it is an abortion provider who
00:03:56.560 also happens to provide a few other services so that they can call themselves a health care center.
00:04:02.860 And what you're going to hear in the news from Planned Parenthood spokespeople, uh, that includes
00:04:07.980 many pundits in the left-wing media, they are going to say that the Trump administration, uh,
00:04:12.720 forced Planned Parenthood out of the title 10 program and robbed millions of underprivileged women
00:04:19.060 from healthcare. That is not true. Planned Parenthood made a decision. They made a calculated decision to
00:04:25.760 reject, to reject $60 million a year of plan of, uh, title 10 funds because they wanted to be able to
00:04:35.140 encourage women to have abortions. They didn't want to financially and physically separate their abortion
00:04:39.800 services from the other services that they provide. That is a decision that they made because as Cecile
00:04:45.420 Richards has said, as they have said many times before, abortion is central to what they do. Now it's
00:04:51.200 interesting because when you talk about defunding Planned Parenthood, they'll say, well, abortion is
00:04:55.800 only 3%, only 3% of the services that we provide. We do all these other kinds of services for women.
00:05:02.820 And so if you defund Planned Parenthood, you're actually taking away the healthcare, uh, from all
00:05:07.640 of these impoverished women. Well, if it's only 3% of what you do, if it's that insignificant, if it's
00:05:13.460 such a small slice of the pie, then it really shouldn't be that big of a deal for you not to make
00:05:19.200 abortion referrals and for you to financially and physically separate your abortion services
00:05:23.080 from the other services that you provide. It shouldn't be that big of a deal, right?
00:05:26.700 But apparently it is. And they've made that known. I mean, they fired their last CEO,
00:05:31.460 their president and CEO, Leanna Nguyen, because she wasn't, uh, she wasn't passionate enough about
00:05:37.800 abortion from a political standpoint. Abortion is all they do. The slaughtering of unborn children
00:05:43.100 is their central mission. I shouldn't say that's all they do because apparently they do some other
00:05:47.440 services here and there, but it is central to who they are. They are an abortion mill. And this is,
00:05:54.280 um, this is their top priority. Actually, it's all of their priorities as they make very clear.
00:05:59.340 So don't listen to the media and to the narrative that says that, you know, this is, this is a racist
00:06:05.720 move by the Trump administration to take healthcare away from women. Planned Parenthood made a decision to
00:06:12.080 take healthcare away from women because they love abortion so much. Okay. Next question. What do you
00:06:17.940 think of Rashida Tlaib and Omar's scandal with Israel? So we know that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar
00:06:24.720 are antisemitic. They don't like to admit that themselves, of course, because that wouldn't be
00:06:29.520 politically savvy, but, uh, they hate Israel. They are supportive of groups that advocate for the
00:06:35.940 complete destruction and obliteration of Israel. And they were meant to, uh, visit the nation,
00:06:41.860 but on their itinerary, they were meeting with these groups that, um, are pro-terrorist groups.
00:06:47.500 They're for the annihilation of the state of Israel. And so Israel said, you know what, we're not,
00:06:53.600 we're not really keen on representatives from another country who want to see our destruction
00:06:57.660 coming and visiting us, which I think is totally their prerogative. Now, whether it's going to pay off
00:07:02.740 for them politically or not, I'm not sure. They actually told Rashida Tlaib, Hey, you can come
00:07:07.280 and visit your grandmother, but you can't come and do all of these things that you were going to do on
00:07:11.760 your original trip with Ilhan Omar. That was basically, uh, meeting exclusively with groups
00:07:18.820 that were advocating for our annihilation. I think that's totally, uh, their prerogative.
00:07:25.300 Next question. Status of my book. Book is going well. I took a little break from writing,
00:07:32.740 after I had the baby girl. And so I'm getting back into it. Now the final version should be finished
00:07:39.260 soon and it's coming out next year, tentatively April, 2020, but it could be a little bit earlier
00:07:44.980 than that. I'm not totally sure, but you guys are going to love it. If you like this podcast,
00:07:49.600 even a little bit, you're going to love this book. It's a very personal book. I talk a lot
00:07:53.680 about my life and just my journey and faith, but, um, it's very relevant. It's very practical.
00:08:00.240 It's pushing against the trendy narcissism that we see so central to our society. You guys are
00:08:06.560 really going to like it. And I'm really excited. I'm really excited for it. I'll be talking about
00:08:10.780 it more in the coming months. Someone also asked me if I'll go on a book tour. I'm sure I will. I
00:08:15.200 don't know what that's going to look like right now. I'm not in charge of the PR for my book and my
00:08:19.220 book tour, but, uh, yes, I I'm sure I'm going on some sort of book tour. And of course I will keep
00:08:26.180 you guys updated because I'd love to meet as many of you as possible. Uh, favorite thing about
00:08:30.940 motherhood so far. Hmm. That's a good question. It's hard to pick just one thing. I mean, I love,
00:08:38.540 I love it all. I love being a mom. I've always wanted to be a mom. I loved babysitting when I
00:08:44.200 was younger. I loved, you know, I've always loved being around kids and playing with kids. I've always
00:08:49.480 wanted to be a mom and it's everything that I thought it would be, but it's a lot more than what I
00:08:54.220 thought it would be because you really can't, you just don't know fully what to expect. I have
00:08:59.340 10 or 11. I can't even keep track now. I think I have 11 nieces and nephews. So I've been around
00:09:05.960 a lot of little kids for a long time and I love them all. And you can kind of see from your in-laws
00:09:12.620 or your siblings relationship with their kids, what it's going to be like, but you really just can't
00:09:18.060 fully know the joy of parenting and the hardship, or I don't want to say hardship, but the difficulty
00:09:23.200 of parenting, you can't even know that until you have kids for yourself. Um, I, I think one of the
00:09:29.100 things that I love the most, just like a simple joy that I have is waking up in the morning. And
00:09:34.240 when she, she's typically the one waking me up in the morning, not because she's crying, but when she
00:09:39.680 wakes up, she basically starts talking. I mean, you know how newborns are. They're like, they're like
00:09:45.200 grunting and they're cooing and they're kind of whining just a little bit. I mean, they just make a lot
00:09:50.920 of noise. My favorite thing is to like look in her bassinet and she's just looking around. She just
00:09:55.580 looks so cute. She looks so cute all of the time, but she looks so cute in the morning when she's
00:10:01.560 just kind of hanging out and figuring out that it's daytime and what's going on in the world.
00:10:06.160 That's probably one of my, one of my favorite things, but I love it all. I just love the little
00:10:10.620 moments throughout the day. Now it's difficult when she only takes like 20 minute naps, uh, throughout the
00:10:17.500 day. And, um, I feel like, okay, all I'm doing all day is basically watching her. And I feel like I
00:10:24.900 can't get up to eat or do anything. Of course that's hard, but it's all incredibly worth it.
00:10:29.300 And it's also just really fun whenever I'm doing something else, like recording this podcast and
00:10:34.200 my husband's with her right now. All I want to do is go back and just kiss her little face. Um,
00:10:41.300 next question. How often do you pray? Well, I would say that it's not, well, the Bible tells us
00:10:48.500 to pray without ceasing. I would say I don't have distinguished necessarily times within the day,
00:10:54.260 except for in the morning that I pray, but I would say that I do pray throughout the day.
00:10:59.640 I can't say that I pray every single second of the day because I'm doing other things and maybe I
00:11:04.820 should be praying more, but I certainly pray multiple times throughout the day. It's more just
00:11:09.700 kind of a flowing out of either gratitude or anxious thoughts or just requests that I have.
00:11:18.680 Um, that's happening pretty, pretty constantly. I have a lot of things that I'm thinking about.
00:11:24.840 A lot of things that I'm worried about. Also a lot of things that I'm grateful for. A lot of things
00:11:29.680 that I have to ask forgiveness for. So I don't think I could fit all of that into just like one
00:11:34.600 30 minute or 10 minute time a day. Like I really kind of have to stretch it out throughout my day
00:11:40.180 to fit all of the things in. Um, what should today's church be more proactive about than it
00:11:47.440 is now? I think actually I rewrote this down. I think it, it said should be more proactive in
00:11:53.040 talking about than it is now. And that is theology. The church does a terrible job. I know that sounds
00:12:00.440 crazy. Like a church doesn't talk about theology, but actually no churches don't talk about theology
00:12:06.160 very much. I would say some of the most popular churches today hardly talk about theology. That's
00:12:10.920 certainly not true of every popular pastor. There are plenty of popular and even so-called celebrity
00:12:15.760 pastors that do talk about theology and do a good job of talking about theology. But I would say
00:12:21.360 for the most part, the, um, churches and the people that young Christians seem to be following
00:12:28.480 today, don't talk about theology at all. They'll take some verses. They'll make some kind of clever
00:12:35.340 analogy and they will put you into the narrative of the Bible. And then they will say, okay, this is
00:12:42.940 what you were supposed to take from this. And you should apply this today. You are David, you slay
00:12:48.240 Goliath, whatever it is. And that's not theology. That's very shallow. It's very superficial. That doesn't
00:12:56.200 allow someone to walk away and actually say, wow, God is good. Or wow, God is powerful. Or wow,
00:13:03.360 God is holy. It's has them walk away and says, okay, these are the little steps that I can take
00:13:09.760 and I can apply it to my life today, which isn't necessarily always bad, but it doesn't give people
00:13:14.420 a better knowledge of God and a better awe of his character. That's what I worry about coming from the
00:13:20.800 pulpit is that we don't learn how to study the Bible. We don't really learn what the Bible says.
00:13:27.920 We don't really learn about the nature of God. We are learning more about the nature of ourselves
00:13:32.260 and who God is in relation to us rather than who we are in relation to God, if that makes any sense.
00:13:38.500 So I would like to see pastors talk about theology a little bit more and how, for example,
00:13:45.940 how we understand the Trinity or how we understand certain characteristics of the Bible or certain
00:13:52.580 characteristics of God that are difficult to understand. I think pastors from the pulpit
00:13:56.060 should be walking us through those things so that we're armed, so that we better understand what's
00:14:01.620 going on when we're reading scripture for ourselves. I don't think that pastors do that very well.
00:14:05.760 I also think that pastors should better and be less afraid, or they should better talk about and be
00:14:12.820 less afraid to talk about politics and what's going on in society, cultural trends. That's not
00:14:19.700 to say that pastors need to be Republican or Democrat or that they necessarily need to
00:14:24.640 make a certain policy stance clear from the pulpit. I don't think that, but I think that they should be
00:14:30.480 unafraid to talk about gay marriage, for example. They should be unafraid to talk about abortion.
00:14:35.320 They should be unafraid to even talk about the redistribution of wealth. What does the Bible have to say
00:14:40.220 about these things? If we're not getting that from our pastor and we're instead getting that from
00:14:45.440 an Instagram influencer or even this podcast, I'm not sure that that's a good thing. I think that we
00:14:51.400 should be getting that knowledge and getting that wisdom primarily from our church leaders, and we're
00:14:55.640 not. Pastors are too scared to talk about politics. They're too scared to talk about cultural trends.
00:15:01.000 They don't want to push people away, but we should be getting that from the person who is shepherding
00:15:06.340 our church community. They should be the ones imparting wisdom according to what God's word
00:15:11.760 says about what's going on in the world so that we can be equipped when we leave the church to be able
00:15:18.640 to confront deceit. But unfortunately, I would say that a lot of pastors are just scared to do that.
00:15:27.440 And of course, talk about sin. I think that we don't enough talk about the holiness of God and the
00:15:34.060 absolute depravity of human beings and how needy we are for salvation. But instead, we kind of talk
00:15:40.200 about like, okay, human beings, we're pretty awesome. And God thinks we're pretty awesome. And
00:15:44.640 he wants to tell us that we're awesome and everyone should feel good once they leave church. I'm not
00:15:49.780 really sure that that is what, according to the book of Acts, we are supposed to be doing when we're
00:15:54.440 preaching to people. Next question. What do you think about the show The Family on Netflix?
00:16:01.020 Well, I've been asked this so many times. So I started watching The Family this week on Netflix,
00:16:07.700 but I'm only a little ways through the first episode. You guys didn't tell me that these
00:16:11.960 episodes were really long and really heavy. So I'm not totally sure what I think yet. I'm a little bit
00:16:18.060 confused. I'm a little bit confused. But like I said, I'm only a little ways into the first episode.
00:16:24.660 And so I can't give you a full analysis of everything. But I will when I can. It's really
00:16:32.240 fascinating. I just I'm not sure that I believe that it's really happening. If you haven't watched
00:16:37.060 The Family on Netflix, maybe everyone who's listening should watch it. And then we can all
00:16:41.160 talk about it together. And we can all analyze it together. Okay, next question. Have you ever had
00:16:48.020 anyone change from pro-choice to pro-life? And the answer is yes. I actually get emails and comments
00:16:54.820 and messages pretty often on this. I would say more than any anything else. There are two things that
00:17:00.420 I get feedback on this kind of really awesome positive feedback that, hey, you changed how I
00:17:05.440 thought about this. And that is a I hear that people's minds have changed about Protestantism
00:17:12.520 and predestination and all of that. And then I would say even more than that, I get a lot of
00:17:19.640 people saying that there might have been changed on abortion. Now, that's not to say that I am the
00:17:26.160 person that has changed their mind. In fact, I would give all credit to the Holy Spirit. But also,
00:17:31.740 they've probably heard a lot of other arguments leading up to the podcast that they've listened to
00:17:35.960 from me. And so I certainly don't take credit for changing people's minds wholesale on the topic of
00:17:42.020 abortion. But yes, I have I have seen and heard minds change on that. Because I think that people
00:17:49.260 are so used to hearing misinformation about abortion, that really all you have to do is tell
00:17:54.920 them the truth. One, tell them what abortion is. Most people can't even stomach the description of an
00:18:00.380 abortion. I would say even early, early stage abortions, but especially late term abortions,
00:18:06.880 when people realize what you're doing, what an abortion actually is, that it's not just
00:18:11.960 getting a clump of cells out of your body or removing a tumor that you're actually dismembering
00:18:17.020 a child. It's very hard for any person with any kind of moral inclination whatsoever to say,
00:18:23.360 yeah, I support the choice for that. Yeah, I probably think that's a good thing for society.
00:18:27.440 It's really hard for people to justify that when they realize what it is. You talk to them about the
00:18:34.720 reality of fetal development in the womb. You talk to them about when unborn children feel pain.
00:18:41.300 You show them pictures of unborn children at certain stages of gestation. I've showed
00:18:45.740 the sonogram picture of my daughter at just 11 and a half weeks gestation. I mean, that's a fully
00:18:51.740 formed baby. Of course, they have more time that they need to grow and develop, but that's a fully
00:18:56.740 formed baby with arms and legs and a head and a mouth and a heart and lungs and all of that. And
00:19:02.960 they're moving around inside the womb at just 11 and a half weeks. That's the first trimester.
00:19:07.360 That is the trimester in which most people say, oh yeah, we should be able to abort children
00:19:11.920 in the first trimester. Well, you're talking about a fully formed, that has yet to fully develop,
00:19:17.320 but a fully formed baby with limbs and a brain and DNA. Of course, they have DNA from conception.
00:19:25.560 And so I think talking to them about the reality of pregnancy, the reality of life, the scientific
00:19:30.380 reality of what life inside the womb is, and then talking to them very graphically about what abortion
00:19:35.960 is. And then I think asking people why. So what is your justification for being able to poison or
00:19:42.700 dismember or stop the heartbeat of a child inside the womb? What's your justification for that? Is it
00:19:48.200 finances? Is it convenience? Is it the circumstances surrounding their conception? Okay, well, in what
00:19:55.440 other circumstance besides when you're talking about a child inside the womb and what other circumstances
00:20:00.960 killing someone based on convenience or finances or the circumstances surrounding their conception,
00:20:07.080 okay, when else do we call murder choice? Is it just because they're inside the womb? It's kind of
00:20:12.500 crazy to justify murder based on a location. Is it because they're small? Well, it's really weird to
00:20:19.300 justify murder based on someone's size. Is it because they're underdeveloped? Well, it's really weird to
00:20:24.140 justify murder based on someone's lack of development. And so when you try to push people into justifying
00:20:30.980 the brutal murder of a baby, they kind of either get really uncomfortable and defensive and they just
00:20:38.220 don't think about it anymore, or they realize there's really no moral justification for it. And they have
00:20:43.000 been duped by the abortion industry, which brings in millions of dollars every year. Okay, a few more
00:20:47.860 questions. What do you say to people that say Jesus was a liberal? So when you get questions like this
00:20:55.260 that are only meant to stump you, not actually meant to have any kind of productive dialogue at all,
00:21:00.960 something that I'd like to do is to turn the question back around on them or ask them a question.
00:21:06.900 Well, what do you mean that Jesus was a liberal? Can you point me to the verses that show you that Jesus
00:21:12.220 is a liberal? And what do you mean by liberal? Like, let's look at scripture and let's actually
00:21:18.080 talk about this. I would like to know your position a little bit more clearly. Why do you say that
00:21:23.980 Jesus was a liberal? There's something that social justice advocates hate to do, and that is define
00:21:28.980 their terms or clarify their question. They will tell you to Google it because they don't actually
00:21:33.600 know. They probably read this question on it, or they saw this statement on a meme or heard it on
00:21:39.840 the internet or saw their favorite Instagram influencer like Glennon Doyle say this, and
00:21:45.920 they're repeating it to you not thinking that you are actually going to make them explain a little bit
00:21:51.800 more what they mean. So I would ask them to explain what they mean by that. If they can point you to the
00:21:57.240 passages that show that Jesus was a progressive, then you're able to talk about that. But of course,
00:22:03.900 we know if you read the Bible at all, if you read the Gospels at all, that Jesus wasn't a progressive,
00:22:08.680 that in fact, if Jesus is God, which we know that he is, then the entirety of the Bible, which we know
00:22:15.600 is God-breathed, is also Jesus' word, Jesus' stance, Jesus' position on things. So that means
00:22:22.440 his position on sexuality, on gender, on marriage, on the redistribution of wealth, all of the things
00:22:29.120 that the Bible is very clear about, those are Jesus' positions too. So I would really like to know
00:22:34.980 what this person means when they say that Jesus was a liberal, because I haven't seen any evidence
00:22:40.680 whatsoever in the Bible for that. Are you considered the religious zealot in your family? How do you
00:22:47.760 deal? No, I'm not considered the religious zealot in my family. I come from a Christian family,
00:22:52.100 a conservative family, and I have an older brother that is very, I would say, very learned in theology.
00:22:58.640 I think I learn a lot from him, and he likes the same topics that I do, and so we like to
00:23:04.420 discuss these things and kind of send articles back and forth. I would say that my husband's family
00:23:09.700 likes this kind of stuff too. Thankfully, I married into a very conservative family.
00:23:16.020 My family is very conservative, and so I feel for people that are in a different position than me,
00:23:22.200 that maybe are the only Christian in your family, or the only conservative in your family,
00:23:26.640 and you constantly feel like you're on the defense, or you're walking on eggshells.
00:23:30.340 I know that's very difficult. I will say, I do disagree. I disagree with my parents on some
00:23:36.760 things theologically, and we have had some heated conversations about those particular topics,
00:23:42.420 and so it's not that they're less religious than me or less Christian than me, but we disagree on
00:23:47.520 some things, and so I have had arguments, but I like that. I don't mind the debates and the
00:23:52.260 arguments, and it's fine. We know that we love each other, but of course, I feel for you. If that's
00:23:59.000 not the case, I know that's very difficult. I would encourage you to get community outside of
00:24:04.720 your family so that you can feel like you're not crazy and that you are not alone. Thoughts on
00:24:11.300 homeschooling? I think homeschooling is great. If you can do it, if you have the time and the energy
00:24:16.540 and the commitment and the ability to homeschool your kids, then I think that that's an awesome
00:24:22.140 option. I mean, we know the public school system. There are many awesome public school teachers,
00:24:27.400 by the way, and there's some great public schools, but there's a lot of the public school system
00:24:31.380 that we know, unfortunately, is indoctrinating our kids and isn't providing them with the same value
00:24:37.720 system that we would at home, and so if your next option is homeschooling, then I think
00:24:43.240 absolutely more power to you. What do you think about Todd White? So I will answer that question
00:24:50.500 by saying you should watch the documentary American Gospel if you have not already. That is what I think
00:24:56.520 of Todd White. Okay, what is the number one lesson you have learned since the start of Relatable? I don't
00:25:05.680 know if it's a lesson so much, although I do think I've learned a lot about podcasting,
00:25:13.060 of course, and talking and research and all of that, but the thing that I have learned is that
00:25:19.720 people, especially I would say young people, have a hunger for theology that the church is not
00:25:28.080 feeding, and I think that we belittle millennials and young people by saying, well, they don't really
00:25:35.720 want the deep stuff. Like, they don't really want to talk about predestination. They don't really want
00:25:39.600 talk about the five solas. Like, they don't really want to talk about the countercultural stuff. They
00:25:43.520 want to hear that you're enough. They want to hear that you can't love your neighbor until you love
00:25:46.740 yourself. They want to hear the easy stuff. They want to hear the trendy stuff. They want to feel
00:25:50.260 comfortable in their sin and be able to, quote, have a relationship with Jesus, but not really be able
00:25:57.900 to change their life. And so we've got to make everything really trendy and really superficial
00:26:04.780 in order to attract young people to the truth or what these people call truth. And I've just found
00:26:11.580 that I don't think that's true. Of course, that's true of some people, but in starting my Theology
00:26:17.580 Mondays and having a theology podcast each week, those are by far my most popular podcasts. By far.
00:26:24.680 Like, if I look at my analytics, the vast majority of my top podcasts or my top downloads are from my
00:26:32.000 theological podcast and the emails that I get and the messages that I get are almost always about
00:26:38.080 those podcasts. And so that tells me something. That tells me that there is a void that is not
00:26:44.460 being very well filled. And I certainly can't fill it on my own. That is not being very well filled
00:26:50.180 for theological truth for young people. There's just, there's too much deceit out there. It's pervasive
00:26:58.040 in this God of self world that we live in. And there's not enough truth. So that's probably the
00:27:05.680 number one thing I've learned. It's encouraging and discouraging at the same time that there are
00:27:10.460 so many people who are eager to hear truth and not enough people that are willing to speak it. And I
00:27:16.300 don't want to sound like I'm some vigilante here or like, I don't want to sound like, oh, people just
00:27:20.900 aren't as brave as me because that's not true. I happen to have a platform and I've always loved
00:27:27.100 these subjects. And so I'm talking about them. It's a very average and normal thing to do that
00:27:31.540 a lot of other people, if they had the same opportunities would do as well. But it's, I mean,
00:27:37.320 it's like what the Bible says that the laborers are few and it's very true. And you obviously don't
00:27:43.800 have to have a podcast in order to talk about theological truth. You can do that in your job.
00:27:48.480 You can talk about theological truth with your friends, but that's probably the biggest thing that
00:27:52.660 I've learned that there are a lot of people hungry for the gospel, hungry to know what the Bible
00:27:57.900 actually says about things, not just what some random teacher says. And there aren't enough people
00:28:03.960 that are willing to talk about it because we are too scared of being called a bigot. We're too scared
00:28:08.680 of being called a bigot. That's, that's one of our biggest problems. So I would say that that is
00:28:13.580 probably one of the biggest lessons. Uh, what's your favorite Bible verse? I really like Psalm, uh,
00:28:18.900 one 37 or is it some now? Oh gosh, my favorite Bible verse. And I don't remember. I think it's
00:28:26.020 Psalm 37, one through seven. Yeah. Psalm 37, one through seven, be not envious of the wrongdoers.
00:28:32.320 I really like that. And that is of course the popular verse, uh, to let yourself in the Lord
00:28:37.480 and he will give you the desires of your heart. But that really the whole chapter in that chunk versus
00:28:42.240 one through seven is really good for people who are not just anxious, but are worried about
00:28:48.360 how the world is going and feeling like evil is overcoming good. That's a really good reminder.
00:28:54.300 And so that's why I love Psalm 37, one through seven. Okay. I think that is it for today. I hope
00:28:59.500 you guys have a great Friday. I hope you guys have a great weekend and I will see you here on Monday.
00:29:03.840 We're going to talk about deconversion and a lot of you have asked me about that and I'm
00:29:07.840 excited to talk about it. So I will see you guys then.
00:29:18.360 Bye.
00:29:18.700 Bye.