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- 0:02[SPEAKER_00]: Greetings.
- 0:03[SPEAKER_00]: It's Wednesday, July the sixteenth, twenty twenty five.
- 0:06[SPEAKER_00]: We're glad you've joined us for Denison Forum's Daily article podcast.
- 0:11[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Chris Elkins, narrator, voicing today's Daily article written by Cultural Theologian Dr. Jim Denison.
- 0:20[SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I have been fans of Chip and Joanna Gaines for many years.
- 0:25[SPEAKER_00]: We watch their home renovation show Fixer Upper Weekly, if not more often.
- 0:30[SPEAKER_00]: When we drive through Waco, we usually stop at their restaurant to eat.
- 0:34[SPEAKER_00]: I have written often with gratitude about their very public faith amid the opposition they have faced for their evangelical beliefs.
- 0:42[SPEAKER_00]: Then came news that their new show features a gay couple raising two adopted sons.
- 0:48[SPEAKER_00]: According to the Dallas Morning News, their new show, back to the frontier, follows three families in the Canadian Rockies as they navigate a technology-free, laborious summer, meant to mimic the lifestyle of eighteen-eighties homesteaders.
- 1:03[SPEAKER_00]: Among the participants are a gay couple from Dallas, who share a cabin with their adopted ten-year-old twin sons.
- 1:10[SPEAKER_00]: When Christians responded to the news by voicing their disappointment and reaffirming biblical sexual morality, chip responded to their criticism.
- 1:30[SPEAKER_00]: It's a sad Sunday when non-believers have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian, in quote.
- 1:41[SPEAKER_00]: Another person posted, we are extremely sad because of how much we have grown to admire and appreciate you both.
- 1:48[SPEAKER_00]: to which Chip responded, well, I appreciate that sincerely.
- 1:52[SPEAKER_00]: So if you admire and appreciate us so much, any chance there's more to this, but that's my point.
- 1:58[SPEAKER_00]: No one knows, but the Christians have certainly come out in full force as if they do know Judge Nott.
- 2:05[SPEAKER_00]: Love one another, it's not difficult.
- 2:08[SPEAKER_00]: In quotes, I do not want to write this article, not only because I admire Chip and Joanne again, and have no interest in criticizing them, but also because I find no joy in addressing the larger issue this controversy highlights.
- 2:22[SPEAKER_00]: I am the opposite of a homophobic person.
- 2:24[SPEAKER_00]: Not only do I have no fear of homosexual people, I have numerous gay friends.
- 2:30[SPEAKER_00]: I gain nothing from writing in ways our secularized culture finds hateful and dangerous to society.
- 2:36[SPEAKER_00]: It would be much easier for me to avoid this subject altogether today.
- 2:40[SPEAKER_00]: But I agree with Franklin Graham, who responded to the game's new show.
- 2:45[SPEAKER_00]: While we are to love people, we should love them enough to tell them the truth of God's word.
- 2:50[SPEAKER_00]: His word is absolute truth.
- 2:53[SPEAKER_00]: God loves us, and his design for marriage is between one man and one woman, promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin, in quote.
- 3:04[SPEAKER_00]: In addition, I am more concerned than ever with the normalization of unbiblical immorality in our culture and even in many churches.
- 3:12[SPEAKER_00]: They gay couple and back to the frontier stated clearly that they went on the show to, quote, normalize same sex couples and same sex families.
- 3:22[SPEAKER_00]: One of them told an interviewer yesterday that they want people to see them as just like every other family.
- 3:29[SPEAKER_00]: I am afraid that by promoting them in this way, Chip and Joanna are also normalizing their lifestyle in ways that will influence other Christians.
- 3:38[SPEAKER_00]: So let's respond to Chip's response, judge not, love one another, it's not difficult.
- 3:44[SPEAKER_00]: It's not judging people to speak biblical truth, knowing that following Jesus and living by His Word will set you free, stated in John eight verse thirty two.
- 3:55[SPEAKER_00]: Conversely, it's not loving to withhold the truth and condone that which is harmful.
- 4:00[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible warns in Proverbs sixteen verse twenty five.
- 4:03[SPEAKER_00]: There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
- 4:08[SPEAKER_00]: King Solomon, the author of those words,
- 4:10[SPEAKER_00]: proved their truth with his own sexual immorality that led to the eventual dissolution of his United Kingdom.
- 4:17[SPEAKER_00]: His father proved them as well with his adulterous sin with Bathsheba and its horrific consequences.
- 4:24[SPEAKER_00]: The key is in Ephesians four verse fifteen speaking the truth in love.
- 4:30[SPEAKER_00]: How can we do this effectively in our post-Christian culture?
- 4:33[SPEAKER_00]: One.
- 4:34[SPEAKER_00]: No why we believe what we believe.
- 4:36[SPEAKER_00]: With regard to today's topic, I suggest my article, what does the Bible say about homosexuality and other resources on our website?
- 4:45[SPEAKER_00]: Find links to them in today's podcast episode notes.
- 4:48[SPEAKER_00]: Two, expect opposition.
- 4:50[SPEAKER_00]: Those who reject biblical truth are likely to reject those who proclaim it.
- 4:55[SPEAKER_00]: John MacArthur warned, the more like Christ you are, the more the world will treat you like they treated Christ.
- 5:02[SPEAKER_00]: A third dynamic in speaking the truth in love, choose humility.
- 5:07[SPEAKER_00]: Your sins may not be mine, just as mine may not be yours.
- 5:11[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible forbids homosexual relations, but it also forbids heterosexual sexual relations outside of monogamous marriage.
- 5:20[SPEAKER_00]: We are but beggars helping other beggars find bread.
- 5:24[SPEAKER_00]: for, offer hope.
- 5:26[SPEAKER_00]: After including, men who practice homosexuality in a list of moral failures in first Corinthians six verses nine through eleven, Paul wrote, and such were some of you, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.
- 5:44[SPEAKER_00]: To paraphrase saying Augustine, God loves each of us, whatever our temptations and sins, as if there were only one of us.
- 5:53[SPEAKER_00]: and a fifth factor to speaking the truth in love never give up.
- 5:58[SPEAKER_00]: The darker the room, the more necessary and powerful the light.
- 6:02[SPEAKER_00]: Every generation of Christians is to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints, according to Jude III.
- 6:11[SPEAKER_00]: Other generations have had their cultural conflicts.
- 6:14[SPEAKER_00]: This is ours.
- 6:15[SPEAKER_00]: For more on engaging culture effectively, please see my new Dennison forum website article, what do Cal Raleigh and Superman have in common?
- 6:24[SPEAKER_00]: A link to it is in today's podcast episode notes.
- 6:27[SPEAKER_00]: The key is recognizing our impotence and seeking our father's omnipotence, as God said to the rubble in Zachariah four verse six, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the Lord of hosts.
- 6:41[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we need to rely on the spirit by submitting to him daily as taught in Ephesians five verse eighteen, seeking his power and provision, and trusting his leading for our best.
- 6:53[SPEAKER_00]: It is the difference between a rowboat powered by our effort and a sailboat powered by the wind.
- 6:59[SPEAKER_00]: Max Locado distinguishes between them this way.
- 7:03[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus invites us to hoist the sale.
- 7:05[SPEAKER_00]: Robot Christianity exhausts and frustrates.
- 7:08[SPEAKER_00]: Those who attempted are left depleted and desperate at the attempt.
- 7:13[SPEAKER_00]: Those who let the Spirit do the work find a fresh power.
- 7:17[SPEAKER_00]: Life still has storms, but they are not left to face the fury on their own.
- 7:21[SPEAKER_00]: In quote, as we face the storms of our broken culture, will you find fresh power today?