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Tim Cook’s advice for Apple’s next CEO · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good day, and welcome to the daily article podcast from Dinnison Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's daily article is authored by cultural theologian Dr. Jim Dinnison, and narrated by Chris Elkins.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The big tech news of the week has been Tim Cook's decision to step down as Apple's CEO.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Under his watch, the company grew from roughly $350 billion
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  [SPEAKER_00]: According to the Wall Street Journal, when Cook took over for Steve Jobs, the legendary genius looked him in the eyes and gave him a piece of advice that guided all his decisions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Quote, don't ask what I would do, Jobs told Cook, just do the right thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In Quote, what advice would Tim Cook give John Turner's successor at Apple?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I would probably say the same thing, Cook said.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just do the right thing is excellent advice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The question, of course, is how do we know the right thing?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As the America reads the Bible, emphasis continues in Washington, D.C. this week, we're thinking together about relating God's word to our secularized culture.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've explored the power of scripture to change hearts and lies when we submit to its truth in the power of the Spirit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's another dimension to this discussion we need to consider today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Eric Swallwell went to a Christian college on a soccer scholarship and often talked publicly about his faith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then came his resignation from Congress, following allegations of sexual harassment, assault, and rape by four women.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Tony Gonzalez is a U.S. Navy veteran and lifelong Catholic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He told the National Catholic Register, quote, on Election Night, when we got word that we were successful and won, the very first thing I did was praise God and give thanks and all the glory to him."
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then came his resignation from Congress after revealing he had an affair with an aide who later died by suicide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For more on both former congressmen, see Mark Legs excellent article on our website.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A link to it is in today's podcast episode notes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their public moral failures highlight the challenge of putting our beliefs into practice and point to a principle evangelicals overlook to our peril.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm fighting two losing battles in my yard this spring.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One problem is perennial, fire ants love our home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I sprinkle on their minds what I'm told to use in our part of the world and it does in fact quote Kill the Mound.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But before long, there's another one a few feet away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And over time, it's even reclaimed the mound, I thought I killed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is because they build tunnels underground that connect their nests and mounds, employing fair mones to organize construction without a central planner, and adapting their tunnel depth to moisture and heat.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: During heavy rains such as we've had this spring, they create rafts by linking their bodies together, floating on the surface of the water and starting new colonies where they land.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, they're smarter than I am.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My other problem is new.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Green Breyer vines have invaded our yard as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These slender thorny vines grow up through shrubbery and other plants.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their tubers roots can be over six inches wide underground.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not strong enough to pull the roots out, so I'm forced to cut the vines I can see and remove them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But in only a few days, they grow back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, they're tougher than I am.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm at least smart enough to try to learn from those smarter than I am.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In this case, I learned from fire ants the importance of community.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Accordingly, I reached out to a lawn service whose professionals have the tools and expertise to extract the vines I cannot remove.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Over time, they'll solve my second problem.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be fighting the first one until my lawn is someone else's problem.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I say that to say this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's word is most transformative in our lives when we choose to obey it in accountable community with others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lifeway research has released new data showing that weekly churchgoers are much more likely to embrace biblical truth than those who attend less often.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For example,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 68% of frequent churchgoers strongly agree that sex outside of traditional marriage is a sin compared with 42% of infrequent churchgoers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 61% of frequent churchgoers strongly agree that abortion is a sin, while only 38% of infrequent churchgoers said the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 71% of frequent churchgoers strongly disagreed that people should be able to choose their gender regardless of their biological sex, but only 51% of infrequent churchgoers said the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 67% of frequent churchgoers strongly disagreed that the Bible's condemnation of homosexual behavior does not apply today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but only 41% of infrequent churchgoers said the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This only makes sense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The more countercultural biblical morality becomes, the more we need countercultural community to engage us in fidelity to biblical truth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are therefore commanded in James 5 verse 16 to confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are to encourage one another and build up one another, according to verse 6 Alonians 5 verse 11, going from Proverbs 27 verse 17 that iron sharpens iron and one man sharpens another.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the ways Satan uses our relativistic existential culture against us is by encouraging us to believe that all truth is subjective and personal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This lie leads us to think that we don't need anyone's truth, but our own and that, in fact, no one else has the right to correct us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Evangelicals can be especially susceptible to such spiritual isolation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We focus rightly on the urgency of individual salvation, seeking to lead all people to trust in Christ, but we're not always sure what to do with those who respond.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Few of our churches have catacetical processes for growing people in faith.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many do not even have classes for new members, and many who do, focus on practical matters of church membership
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  [SPEAKER_00]: don't wonder loneliness, depression and anxiety are at epidemic levels today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every step I have taken in spiritual growth over these many years has come through a countable community.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: People who pray for me and for whom I pray,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: spiritual sisters and brothers with whom I share God's word and seek to serve God's call.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've experienced the truth of Tim Keller's observation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Quote, if this world was made by a Triune God, a being of community, then relationships of love are what life is really all about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In Quote, what relationships of love will you strengthen today?