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Voddie Baucham - Question & Answer x Pastor Rob Pacienza · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 2: All right, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Make your way back to your seat for, as we
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  Speaker 1: wrap up this time together with Q & A. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we had over 70 questions submitted when it
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  Speaker 1: was all said and done, so no way we will...
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  Speaker 1: get to all of them, but we will try to
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  Speaker 1: focus on the ones that Vody dealt with today. But
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  Speaker 1: real quick, you wanted to say something about fault lines.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I wanted to say something about these cards
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  Speaker 2: and why we're doing this. We've never done this before,
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  Speaker 2: but when a friend of mine posted on his Twitter
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  Speaker 2: about this book upcoming, Twitter put a warning on it.
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  Speaker 2: And then another friend, you know, did that and Twitter
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  Speaker 2: put a warning on it. I put something up about it,
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  Speaker 2: Twitter put a warning on it. And we were, you know,
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  Speaker 2: telling people about pre-ordering the book. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is considered, I guess, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: the book as much as it is me. Because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, you know, when they put posts of
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  Speaker 2: mine up, they come with a warning or whatever. So
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to get around that obstacle as it relates
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  Speaker 2: to the promotion of this book. By the way, we've
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  Speaker 2: also seen the publisher of this book is Salem Publishing,
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  Speaker 2: and they've never seen pre-orders the magnitude of what they're
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  Speaker 2: seeing with this book. They just never have. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're doing this in order to try to promote the
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  Speaker 2: book and in order to try to use means that
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  Speaker 2: go around some of the obstacles that social media is
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  Speaker 2: now putting up for this book. And some people have questioned,
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  Speaker 2: you know, well, why are you guys using Amazon? I
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  Speaker 2: hate Amazon. I don't want to give Amazon any more
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  Speaker 2: of my money. Okay, I get that. But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: 70% of all books sold are sold by Amazon. And
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  Speaker 2: pre-orders help Amazon to stock the book sufficiently so that
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  Speaker 2: in the second or third day, they're not telling people
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  Speaker 2: you'll get this in three or four weeks, which hurts sales.
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  Speaker 2: And other book sellers look at how Amazon is having
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  Speaker 2: to stock the book to determine how they're going to
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  Speaker 2: stock the book. So we're using this right now in
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  Speaker 2: order to help position this book because, I mean, as
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  Speaker 2: crazy as it sounds, We could make the best sellers
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  Speaker 2: list with this book. Then it won't matter if people
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  Speaker 2: are blocking this or that or the other and it'll
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  Speaker 2: be really hard for people to try to. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that's what we're doing and that's why we're using this
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  Speaker 2: particular angle. in order to get this done. So I
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  Speaker 2: say that because several people have asked, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: several people have even been offended that there would be
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  Speaker 2: a link to Amazon on here. Um, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: plundering the Egyptians.
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  Speaker 1: Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You can, uh, pre-order that.
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  Speaker 1: The book comes out officially in April though, correct?
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  Speaker 2: April 6th. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But we need a pre-order today.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's Bodhi, the first one deals with, I guess you
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  Speaker 1: would place this under gender justice, but for those that
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  Speaker 1: are either struggling with.
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  Speaker 2: CRT. Did you want to do the CRT?
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  Speaker 1: No, let's do that next.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: For those that are struggling with gender confusion, sexual orientation,
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  Speaker 1: or even sympathetic to it, How do we speak to
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  Speaker 1: those people with truth and love?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by speaking to them with truth and love. I
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  Speaker 2: think oftentimes we think about, you know, speaking the truth
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  Speaker 2: in love as though somehow there's a formula for particular situations.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody, you know, responds A, then you A. Do
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  Speaker 2: number one. If they respond B, you do number two. No,
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  Speaker 2: speaking the truth in love is not formulaic. Speaking the
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  Speaker 2: truth in love is a principle, right? And speaking the
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  Speaker 2: truth in love has to do with your loving relationship
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  Speaker 2: with a person. So I have a loving relationship with
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  Speaker 2: my wife. Speaking the truth in love to my wife
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  Speaker 2: looks one way.
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  Speaker 1: Amen?
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I have a loving relationship with my son, my sons.
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  Speaker 2: I have seven sons and two daughters. Speaking the truth
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  Speaker 2: in love to one of my sons looks different than
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  Speaker 2: it does speaking it to my wife. Amen? Speaking the
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  Speaker 2: truth in love. You see what I'm getting at here?
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  Speaker 2: So don't fall into this trap of seeing people as constituencies,
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  Speaker 2: seeing them as according to their intersectional reality, and saying,
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  Speaker 2: someone belongs to this intersectional reality, therefore, this is the
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  Speaker 2: way to speak the truth and love to them. No.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking the truth and love has to do with your
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  Speaker 2: relationship with a person, respecting your relationship with the person,
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  Speaker 2: being wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove
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  Speaker 2: in your relationship with the person, and having a commitment
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  Speaker 2: because of your love for them to not compromise truth.
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  Speaker 1: We have a question regarding, many questions regarding CRT, critical
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  Speaker 1: race theory. But before I get to that question, can
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  Speaker 1: you briefly define what critical race theory is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I want to give you this. And this
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  Speaker 2: comes from fault lines because I deal with this in
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  Speaker 2: fault line just very briefly. But before I give you
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  Speaker 2: this answer, it's kind of like what I was talking
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  Speaker 2: about earlier with social justice. My goal and my desire
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  Speaker 2: is not to build up, you know, a straw man
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  Speaker 2: and not to build up the weakest version of CRT
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  Speaker 2: so that I can tear it down. And what I've
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  Speaker 2: tried to do with CRT is allow CRT to speak
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  Speaker 2: for itself and to use academic articles, for example, with
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  Speaker 2: thousands of references, which is ridiculous. huge in academic circles
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  Speaker 2: if you have an article that gets thousands of references.
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  Speaker 2: These things are authoritative. And so according to the most
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  Speaker 2: authoritative sources on CRT, this is critical race theory. These
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  Speaker 2: are the main components of critical race theory. There's four. One,
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  Speaker 2: racism is normal. It's the usual way society does business.
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  Speaker 2: The common everyday experiences of most people of color in
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  Speaker 2: this country. right? If you remember the Lego movie, if
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  Speaker 2: you had kids who watched the Lego movie for days,
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  Speaker 2: you were sitting there, everything is awesome, everything, right? For CRT,
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  Speaker 2: everything is racist, right? Everything is racist. Everything is racist.
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  Speaker 2: Robin DiAngelo puts it this way. We don't have to
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  Speaker 2: ask whether or not racism was manifested in that circumstance,
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  Speaker 2: but how, Everything is racist. That's critical race theory. Everything
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  Speaker 2: is racist. Number two is this idea of convergence theory.
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  Speaker 2: This means that white people are incapable of righteous actions
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  Speaker 2: on race and only undo racism when it benefits them.
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  Speaker 2: That's critical race theory. White people are incapable of righteous
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  Speaker 2: actions on race and anything that they do that undoes racism,
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  Speaker 2: it's because it benefits them, not people of color. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 2: CRT is anti-liberal. And what I mean is they question
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  Speaker 2: the very foundation of the liberal order. And when I
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  Speaker 2: say the liberal order, I'm not talking about liberal or conservative.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the idea of equality, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism,
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  Speaker 2: the idea of neutrality, right? And even the scientific method.
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  Speaker 2: And finally... the idea that knowledge is socially constructed, okay?
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  Speaker 2: So they use storytelling and narrative reading as the way
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  Speaker 2: that black people forward knowledge versus the scientific method of
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  Speaker 2: white people. Now, an offshoot of that is the centrality
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  Speaker 2: of experiential knowledge. CRT recognizes that the experiential knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: people of color is legitimate, appropriate, and critical to understanding, analyzing,
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  Speaker 2: and teaching about racism and racial subordination. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: this is why CRT talks about racism in terms of
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  Speaker 2: a conversation. Why is it important to have a conversation
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  Speaker 2: about race? Because the only way you really learn about
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  Speaker 2: racism is by listening to the voices of minorities. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, this is why you hear things like we
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  Speaker 2: need to elevate black voices, right? Why do we need
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  Speaker 2: to do that? Because CRT says there is a special knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: I've coined the term ethnic Gnosticism in order to explain racism.
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  Speaker 2: this ideology, right? But CRT argues that by virtue of
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  Speaker 2: being part of the oppressed, and by the way, this
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  Speaker 2: comes out of critical theory and even earlier Marxism, by
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  Speaker 2: virtue of being oppressed, you have access to knowledge that
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  Speaker 2: the oppressor does not have access to and is blind
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  Speaker 2: to by virtue of their position as the oppressor. So
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  Speaker 2: if we're going to deal with this, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to be a discussion that elevates minority voices. And
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  Speaker 2: that terminology ought to sound very familiar to you. Because
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  Speaker 2: that's the way CRT talks about race and racism. So helpful.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So what I'm about to do is combine
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  Speaker 1: about 10 questions into one because they're all along the
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  Speaker 1: same lines. And it has to do with CRT. I
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  Speaker 1: have a pastor that has endorsed CRT. And I'm now
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  Speaker 1: listening to many leaders in the evangelical church. that have
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  Speaker 1: endorsed critical race theory. Is this enough reason to leave
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  Speaker 1: that church and stop listening to these leaders?
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  Speaker 2: It's enough reason in your, let me talk about your church.
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  Speaker 2: It's enough reason for you to engage your church and
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  Speaker 2: to engage your leaders on this issue and on this topic.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe ever in, you know, sitting down, hearing
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  Speaker 2: something and then bailing, right? we need to engage with
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  Speaker 2: one another as brothers and sisters. We need to think
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  Speaker 2: more of our relationship with our local church than just,
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  Speaker 2: I heard something I don't like, I'm gone.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. So I have a college-age student, college-age daughter,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a son that is getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: graduate high school today. They have a strong passion for
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  Speaker 1: social justice as you define it. What resources, books would
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  Speaker 1: you point them to?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of things. There's one really good resource,
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  Speaker 2: Shinvi Apologetics, Neil Shinvi. Neil Shinvi is, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: a scientist. I think his PhD is in chemistry or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. But he's, and Shinvi is an apologist.
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  Speaker 2: And Neil's website, I think it's shinviapologetics.com or shinviapologetics.org, is
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous resource. He's got a lot of book reviews
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  Speaker 2: on the main books in critical race theory and things
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  Speaker 2: of this nature. He's got a whole section on it.
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  Speaker 2: Another resource, and I quoted from this resource earlier, New Discourses. Now,
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  Speaker 2: New Discourses is curated by an atheist. He's an atheist
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  Speaker 2: that I've become friends with. His name is James Lindsay.
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  Speaker 2: But James gets this. And James gets it from a
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  Speaker 2: theological perspective. James is very familiar with Christian theology. And
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  Speaker 2: although he's not a believer, sees very clearly the threat
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  Speaker 2: to the church and to Christianity. And so New Discourses,
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  Speaker 2: there's an encyclopedia there on the New Discourses website. And
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  Speaker 2: you can go and look at the encyclopedia of all
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  Speaker 2: the terms. And it's awesome. It's a wonderful resource. They
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  Speaker 2: also have a lot of book reviews on the main
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  Speaker 2: books and articles and the academic research on critical theory,
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  Speaker 2: critical race theory, intersectionality, and critical social justice. So I
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  Speaker 2: think those two things there, and those will point you
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  Speaker 2: to other books. And also there's a book that came
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  Speaker 2: out recently that.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose did. And that name, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't know these names, so James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and
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  Speaker 2: Peter Boghossian, they really came to prominence over what's known
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  Speaker 2: as the hoax papers. And what they did was, these guys,
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay is a mathematician, his PhD is in mathematics. Pluckrose
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  Speaker 2: I think hers is in English literature, and Peter Boghossian,
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  Speaker 2: his PhD is in philosophy. And these guys noticed that
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  Speaker 2: in what they call the grievance studies, right? Feminist studies,
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  Speaker 2: women's studies, you know, minority studies, African American studies, all
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  Speaker 2: these areas. They noticed that these people were publishing peer-reviewed
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  Speaker 2: articles that didn't do any research. And so what they
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  Speaker 2: did was they wrote 20 papers for peer review, hoax papers.
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  Speaker 2: They completely made it up outside of their fields in
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  Speaker 2: these grievance studies areas. And I think something like 10
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  Speaker 2: of them got accepted, and they were absolutely redonkulous. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that they were writing was way out there,
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  Speaker 2: and they were being accepted in peer-reviewed journal articles. It
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  Speaker 2: was complete trash. in order to prove the point that
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  Speaker 2: these disciplines aren't academic disciplines. Well, the people with PhDs
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  Speaker 2: in feminist studies, that's a small list. So their made
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  Speaker 2: up name in one of the articles got discovered. And
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  Speaker 2: so somebody threatened to expose the writer of this article
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  Speaker 2: for not having a legitimate PhD from their institution. So
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  Speaker 2: the gig was up, but they thought they were gonna
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  Speaker 2: get two thirds of their papers published in peer review journals.
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  Speaker 2: So they had to kind of admit what they had done. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: but of course the damage was, was, was done by then. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and so these guys, they're rock stars in terms of
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  Speaker 2: understanding what's happening in academia and what's been happening in academia.
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  Speaker 2: And Pluckrose and, uh, And Lindsay wrote a book called
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  Speaker 2: Cynical Theories that is really good. And Al Mohler actually
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  Speaker 2: had Lindsay on his show to interview him about cynical theories.
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  Speaker 2: And it's great. Again, he's not a believer, but if
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about resources to really help you understand this,
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  Speaker 2: rather than reading 50, 75, 100 books and academic articles,
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  Speaker 2: this is a way for you to kind of get
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  Speaker 2: Introduced to it. Shenvi, S-H-E-N-V-I.
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  Speaker 1: How's the reality of the postmodern worldview in our culture,
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  Speaker 1: the dismissal of absolute truth? How has that led to
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  Speaker 1: the growing acceptance of social justice, even inside the church?
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  Speaker 2: Postmodernism hasn't just led to the growth of this movement.
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  Speaker 2: Postmodernism is at the root of this movement. This is
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  Speaker 2: sort of a modern manifestation of postmodernism, okay? This is
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  Speaker 2: a modern manifestation of postmodernism. So yeah, this is sort
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  Speaker 2: of a new manifestation, if you will, of postmodernism. And
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  Speaker 2: a lot of this stuff comes out of postmodern theory.
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  Speaker 2: These people are, these are expressions of postmodern theory in
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  Speaker 2: a number of ways. So this is very much connected
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  Speaker 2: to all of this. And really standpoint epistemology, which is
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  Speaker 2: big and comes out of feminist theory, right? Standpoint epistemology
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  Speaker 2: is just another manifestation of you have a different understanding
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  Speaker 2: and a different you know, avenue and angle on truth
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  Speaker 2: that other people don't have because of your standpoint, right?
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  Speaker 2: This is a very postmodern ideology. So yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: very much connected to postmodernism.
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  Speaker 1: So you have a lot of Christians inside the church
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  Speaker 1: saying right now, pointing to the current cultural moment, saying
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  Speaker 1: this is why we don't get.
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  Speaker 2: Engaged in politics.
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  Speaker 1: How can Christians honor God and still be politically active?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that is one of the most ignorant
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  Speaker 2: things I've ever heard, right? This is why we don't
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  Speaker 2: engage in politics. I'd say this is what we get
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  Speaker 2: for not engaging in politics. Yeah. The other thing is this.
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  Speaker 2: You can't not engage in politics. Not when you understand
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  Speaker 2: politics rightly, right? You're constantly engaging in politics and with politics.
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  Speaker 2: But I think one of our biggest problems is we
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  Speaker 2: are thinking wrongly about politics. And when we say politics,
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  Speaker 2: the only thing that we generally mean is presidential elections.
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  Speaker 2: We're ignorant of who our local representatives are. We're ignorant
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  Speaker 2: of how local policies are affecting us. We're ignorant about
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  Speaker 2: our potential for participation in politics at any kind of
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  Speaker 2: a local level. We're just We're ignorant. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think one of our biggest problems is we've reduced politics
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  Speaker 2: to presidential elections. And that's crazy. It's much more important
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  Speaker 2: who your sheriff is than who the president is.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. You did a great job in your first session
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  Speaker 1: in addressing, no, we're all about justice.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be just people.
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  Speaker 1: So what does a healthy church look like that is
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  Speaker 1: faithful to both the word? and truth, but also faithful
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  Speaker 1: to being just. If the church is not after social justice,
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  Speaker 1: what does a healthy church look like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what it looks like is people who
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  Speaker 2: are being taught the whole counsel of God. Sorry, is
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  Speaker 2: it my beard? Okay, fear the beard. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, people who are being taught the whole counsel
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  Speaker 2: of God and people who are being discipled faithfully and
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  Speaker 2: people who are being taught to take every thought captive,
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  Speaker 2: people who are developing a biblical worldview. I think one
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  Speaker 2: of the things we've done is we've fallen prey to
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  Speaker 2: this sort of self-help Christianity. ten ways to have a
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  Speaker 2: happy life, and five ways to reduce stress. And we
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  Speaker 2: stop being theological. And because we're not theological, and because
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  Speaker 2: we're not applying theology to the whole counsel of God,
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  Speaker 2: then we don't know how to think about all of
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  Speaker 2: these various issues around us. One of the things I
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  Speaker 2: love about the Puritans is, you know, lack them or
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  Speaker 2: lump them, right? The Puritans were applying biblical theology, systematic
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  Speaker 2: theology to everything. I mean, they're writing about the ethics
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  Speaker 2: of bear baiting, you know? I mean, it's just incredible
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  Speaker 2: the way that they're doing it. What this is, is
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  Speaker 2: an attempt at to think through everything theologically and apply
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  Speaker 2: a theological grid to everything. And I think in a
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  Speaker 2: healthy church, we're doing that. And in a healthy church,
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  Speaker 2: because we're doing that, we have people who are engaging
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  Speaker 2: and standing on all kind of walls out there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in in the culture at large. I don't think it
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  Speaker 2: just looks like, you know, sort of this kind of
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  Speaker 2: moral majority political activism, but I think it's much broader
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  Speaker 2: than that. And I think we're engaging in all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of areas, and we're engaging in in business and we're
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  Speaker 2: engaging in politics and we're engaging in education and we're engaging,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in social issues and all sorts of things
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  Speaker 2: because we're applying this biblical grid to every area and
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  Speaker 2: aspect of life. Yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: So often passages in the book of Acts, passages like
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  Speaker 1: James 1, caring for the orphan and widow, are used
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  Speaker 1: to defend the cultural Marxist paradigm and even the social
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  Speaker 1: justice movement.
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  Speaker 2: What would you say to that? I'd say a couple
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  Speaker 2: of things. I'd say one, that's a gross misapplication of Scripture.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, because Marxism has to do with the state, right?
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  Speaker 2: It has to do with state ownership. It has to
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  Speaker 2: do with getting away with private ownership and private property.
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  Speaker 2: for example and when we talk about the you know
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  Speaker 2: the believers having everything in common ananias and sapphira ananias
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  Speaker 2: comes and god kills him because he lied to the
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  Speaker 2: holy spirit not because he refused to give up private
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  Speaker 2: ownership of his property but because he voluntarily sold his
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  Speaker 2: property and peter says while it was yours didn't you
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  Speaker 2: have the right to do whatever you wanted with it Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's a rebuke of Marxism right there, right? The issue
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't a good Christian has no private property. No,
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  Speaker 2: the issue there was you lied and told God that
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  Speaker 2: you did this when you really didn't do that. You
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  Speaker 2: had the right to do whatever you wanted with it,
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  Speaker 2: but you lied to the Holy Spirit in order to
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  Speaker 2: make yourself, you know, look better. So, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: complete misuse, misinterpretation, and misapplication of Scripture. Secondly, complete misunderstanding
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  Speaker 2: and misapplication of Marxism, which has to do with the
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  Speaker 2: giving up of private property, right? And so, no, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible is replete with principles of how we respect
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  Speaker 2: private property and how we, you know, use private property
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  Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. So, yeah, there's Marx.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing is Marxism is an atheistic ideology.
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  Speaker 2: Marx despised religion and Christianity in particular. So, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: somebody who doesn't understand Scripture and also doesn't understand Marxism. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to end our time there. It is 1230.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said last night, as somebody was commenting,
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  Speaker 1: aren't you glad voting's on the team? And I said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad he's the captain of the team.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that. I look at this man and I
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  Speaker 1: thank God for him for standing for the truth. I
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  Speaker 1: would be privileged and honored to pray for you, and
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  Speaker 1: I know you would join me in praying for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a busy schedule.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to Charlotte, Huntsville, back down to southwest Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and then eventually back to your full-time job. But thank you, brother,
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  Speaker 1: for being with us this weekend, and let me pray
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  Speaker 1: for you and for your ministry. Would you join me
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  Speaker 1: in prayer? Our Father and our God and Lord, I just,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you. Lord, for such a time as this,
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  Speaker 1: you have raised up this man of God to preach boldly,
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  Speaker 1: to speak the truth in love, and to be a
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  Speaker 1: witness to the kingdom of God on.
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  Speaker 2: Earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And so, Lord, I pray that you would protect him. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you would fulfill your promise that you will be Votie
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  Speaker 1: Bauckham's advocate, that he doesn't need another advocate, that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is enough. Lord, Satan would love nothing more than to
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  Speaker 1: take this man down. But Lord, I thank you. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you that he is out there preaching the truth. So Lord,
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  Speaker 1: would you bless his ministry? Would your favor be upon him? Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you would use his words, words that
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  Speaker 1: come from the spirit of the living God to soften hearts,
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  Speaker 1: to transform minds, Lord. Bless him in his travels, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Bless him in his work here in North America. Bless
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  Speaker 1: him in his work at African Christian University. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you that he has dedicated his life and ministry to
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  Speaker 1: training and equipping people with a biblical worldview because we know, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: how we think influences how we live. So, Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for placing this calling on his heart. Bless
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  Speaker 1: him and keep him this day. in the days and
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  Speaker 1: the months and the years ahead. In Jesus' name I pray.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's thank once again Votie Bauckham for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us this weekend. Please
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  Speaker 1: feel free to check out the books on your way out.
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  Speaker 2: And we would love to see you back here at
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  Speaker 2: Coral Ridge.
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  Speaker 1: If you're looking for a home church, we'd love to
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  Speaker 1: see you tomorrow morning. We have a 9.30 and 11
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  Speaker 1: o'clock service. Lord bless you and keep you the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of your weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks again for joining us.