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Responding to Cultural Challenges Biblically (Part 1) · Equipped for Impact

0:08
Nate: Welcome to Equipped for Impact, the podcast designed to assist Christian parents, leaders and educators to raise up the next generation to stand firm in their faith and influence the world for Christ.
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Nate: We're your hosts.
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Nate: I'm Nate and I'm Lewis, so let's get started.
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Nate: Here we are in episode I think seven, lewis, are we seven episodes in?
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Nate: I can't believe it, but yeah we are.
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Nate: That is crazy.
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Nate: Not that we've been looking at stats, but I think the average podcast doesn't even get to 10.
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Luis: Yeah, In fact I read something about that recently that, like most podcasts, like 10 is like if you can break 10, like you're doing something good, so, so, hopefully we've got listeners up to 10.
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Nate: We're at seven right now, so we got we got three more to go, but all of that aside, uh, we're going to continue on with this like our, our theme here.
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Nate: Right, we're equipped for impact.
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Nate: We want to give tools to, to you, all our listeners, as parents um, uh, parents to help you equip your children and raise them to be godly men and women who will influence their world for Christ.
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Nate: That's our whole thing.
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Nate: So, today, what we're looking at is how can Christian families respond biblically to cultural challenges, and I think, throughout all of this, lewis, we're going to, you know, look at different specific issues that may come from our culture, but really, I feel like we need a framework to know how to address these things.
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Luis: Yeah, and I think it's important right, because we know that the world is changing fast and we know we've talked about this in several episodes we know that our kids are being bombarded with messages that contradict a biblical worldview.
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Luis: So, parents, if you are working to disciple your child, if you are raising them in the church, if you are doing daily devotions at home or even weekly devotions and maybe even send them to a Christian school, we know that there's a force out there.
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Luis: We know that the world is working to contradict, and so if we don't equip them, we know that the culture will, and so today we're going to share some practical steps to help you as a family, mom, dad, how you can stand firm in truth while engaging the culture with love.
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Nate: Yeah, yeah, and I think you know just all of this.
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Nate: This whole idea really comes back to kind of a key verse we're going to hit throughout this episode, and that's Romans 12, 2.
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Nate: It says and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect, and I think that fits really well, like that's what we're dealing with.
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Nate: We want to have discernment, we want to see the good, the acceptable, the perfect, uh, in in the culture.
2:51
Nate: So I guess that's really loose where, where we start, um, can you like recap for us?
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Nate: Like, what are we looking at, what are we facing as we we go through, uh, our cultural landscape today?
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Luis: So, before we dive into the solutions, here's just a quick recap of some of what we've already talked about.
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Luis: So, parents, some of this may sound familiar, but I think it's important to understand what it is.
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Luis: Maybe you're listening for the first time, and so here's what the data shows.
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Luis: Barna Research says that only 4% of Gen Z has a biblical worldview, and if you're not familiar with Gen Z, that's considered the current generation, so it's usually those kids that were born after like 2010.
3:31
Luis: And so it's most school age kids now.
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Luis: But here's the interesting part of that is, not only does Gen Z only 4% of them have a biblical worldview, but the same data shows that only 37% of pastors here in America hold a biblical worldview.
3:46
Nate: Wow, wow.
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Nate: That's a big deal, because, I mean, they're the ones who are supposed to be leading us.
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Nate: If they don't have a biblical worldview, where are we going to?
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Luis: get it from.
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Luis: And then when you look at that data, even at a more granular level, right, so senior pastors, lead pastors.
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Luis: These are kind of like your main pastors of a church 41%, which is better than the 37%, right.
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Luis: But then when we talk about, like, children and youth pastors, this is where it gets really scary.
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Luis: So these are the pastors that are engaged with our children in church, in children's ministry, in youth ministry you're talking about 12%.
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Luis: Wow, I mean one out of 10.
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Luis: And I mean that's scary.
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Luis: And so Al Mohler, which is somebody that I enjoy listening to, that I enjoy reading.
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Luis: He has a book called the Gathering Storm, and in that book he says if we do not disciple, well, then the culture is.
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Luis: And so these findings here suggest what I would describe as a discipleship crisis, because the foundational beliefs of both parents, of churches, of children, it's not going to align with traditional biblical teachings, yeah, and I think that's a big deal.
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Nate: We come back to those first three episodes when we talked about the home, the church and the school kind of three leg, three leg stool is like we like to talk about it, you know, and we cautioned against that outsourcing mindset.
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Nate: You know, I'm just going to drop my kids off with the experts, but what this data is telling us is maybe the experts are quite as expert as we think they are.
5:21
Nate: That was hard to say.
5:22
Nate: Yeah, maybe I should try.
5:32
Nate: No, we'll leave that in, but it's true and I think that's, in general, right.
5:34
Nate: You and I know a lot of really great solid churches that I don't think they would defy these statistics.
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Luis: They're just kind of painting with a broad brush and I would say that probably a lot of our listeners, a lot of our churches here locally in the area where we live, may not fall under.
5:44
Luis: I mean, obviously consider that this data is national right, and so you're talking about areas outside of where we are that probably feed into this.
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Luis: But I think here's I don't want to make an excuse, though right Because we know the data is real and while our area may not represent the whole of the data, it's clear that without proactive efforts to instill a biblical worldview, just like we talked about a few episodes ago, there's going to be cultural influences that are going to fill that void, and not only is it going to fill that void, but it's going to lead to the further erosion of foundational Christian beliefs in future generations.
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Luis: So I mean, you look at just the history of our country and the data that we talked about biblical worldview the younger you get, the smaller pool of people that have a biblical worldview.
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Nate: Right, right, and these statistics, I think they came from Gen Z.
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Nate: You know, only 4% of Gen Z has a biblical worldview.
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Nate: That's going to be your.
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Nate: You know, middle school and high school students and into college, the Gen Alpha which is after that is too young yet to really have viable statistics, and so that's going to be your.
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Nate: I think it's like fifth, sixth graders in that range, and younger would be Gen Alpha.
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Nate: So these are things like you said.
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Nate: It's that erosion over time.
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Nate: We're going to see.
7:06
Nate: We've talked about it a lot before.
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Nate: There's an illustration from John Stonestreet in his book about cultural issues, and we talked about the waves and the current, and what we're talking about today is really more.
7:19
Nate: Let's look at that current.
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Nate: What is the underlying current that's going on that could potentially sweep us away without us being aware?
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Nate: So what would you say are some of those current type issues that are going through culture right now?
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Luis: Well, one of the biggest lies that our culture tells us is that truth is whatever you want it to be right.
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Luis: We call that moral relativism.
7:43
Luis: I'm taking a philosophy class right now, which, by the way I mean philosophy is wild.
7:48
Luis: It is a history of philosophy, but one of our modern philosophical views, and you've probably heard this phrase before live your truth or you do you right.
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Luis: And the idea behind that is that everyone gets to decide what's right and wrong for themselves, and we call that moral relativism, and it teaches that there's no absolute truth.
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Luis: But as Christians with a biblical worldview, we know that that's not what God says yeah, yeah, yeah.
8:17
Nate: In John 14, 6, that's where Jesus says you know, I am the way, the truth and the life.
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Nate: No one comes to the Father except through me.
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Nate: It's very clear.
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Nate: He doesn't say I am a way to God, I am one truth among many.
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Nate: He says very clearly the way and the truth and the life.
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Nate: The only way you can get to God is through Jesus Christ, and so we need to be fixed on Christ as that foundation, not swaying, depending on whatever your personal opinions are.
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Luis: And that's why it's so important to teach our kids that truth isn't based on our feelings or our culture.
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Luis: It's based on God's Word, and if we don't ground them in that, then we know that there's a world that's going to try to convince them that truth is whatever they want it to be.
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Luis: Now, parents, you may have heard of the deconstruction movement.
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Luis: That's something that's happening among Christians today and it's one of the biggest challenges that's facing Christian families, and the idea here is you may have heard stories of young people who are walking away from their faith, who start to question everything that they once believed, and deconstruction is a term that is used to describe that process of breaking down or re-examining your beliefs, and it's becoming more and more common, especially among the Gen Z generation and into our generation, the millennial generation.
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Nate: Yeah, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, right?
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Nate: Like we, an unexamined faith is not a strong faith, right?
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Nate: So you need to examine your faith.
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Nate: The problem is, I heard one pastor speaking on this, and he said something along the lines of you know, the deconstruction movement is always deconstructing.
10:02
Nate: They're never building anything back in its place, and so we want to encourage our students, our children, you know, the young adults who we are around to examine critically the things that they believe, so that they don't have a weak faith.
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Nate: But they need to build that back up on the truth of God's word, right?
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Nate: Because if it isn't on God's word, it should be deconstructed.
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Nate: And so that's a challenge for us.
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Nate: We should work through this and think critically, but in the home, in the school, in the church, that's the place where you can deconstruct and rebuild what you really believe.
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Luis: Yeah, and let's be clear, right.
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Luis: So deconstruction isn't just an intellectual journey.
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Luis: It's often driven by personal experiences, by feelings of disappointment or even a pressure to fit in with a culture that we know is hostile to biblical truth.
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Luis: And so some people deconstruct because they want to make their faith, or what they think is their faith, fit with the popular ideologies of today.
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Luis: Like they want to redefine marriage, and so they want to deconstruct their faith, because their faith taught that marriage is between one man and one woman, forever right.
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Luis: And so it's easier to deconstruct that faith and redefine marriage or redefine gender or redefine morality If your faith doesn't fit with the way you want to live.
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Luis: You've got two choices You've either got to adjust the way you live or you adjust your faith, and what deconstruction is is a readjustment of that faith.
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Nate: It was interesting Again, maybe a little sarcasm in this, but it was a pastor or somebody online was saying it's interesting how a lot of these people are proclaiming that they're taking a bold step to turn their back on their faith.
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Nate: But their bold step is to conform to what is the majority popular opinion in the culture, at least loudly proclaimed in culture.
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Nate: It's not brave to go along with culture.
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Nate: It's brave to hold to those foundations of faith that we've seen, which is why you as parents, we as parents, need to be proactive in discipling our kids right.
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Nate: We can't assume they'll hold on to their faith just because they grew up in church.
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Nate: We can't assume they'll hold on to their faith just because they grew up in church.
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Nate: They need to know why Christianity is true, why the Bible can be trusted and how to stand firm when they're challenged.
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Nate: You know they need to understand these things.
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Nate: It's that idea of inoculation, right.
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Nate: You know you have that virus, right.
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Nate: If you take the flu vaccine or whatever, it's this virus that gets exposed just a little bit and then your body learns how to handle and respond to it in your immune system.
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Nate: We do the same thing with these bad teachings.
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Nate: We can expose in just a little bit and teach our students, our children, how to respond to this, so that they will be stronger when they're faced with a bigger onslaught from our culture.
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Luis: And I know that we spent the last two episodes talking about technology and media.
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Luis: And so, parents, we don't want to rehash that for you.
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Luis: If you want to go back, if you didn't listen to those, go back and listen to those episodes and you can understand how media, social media, how media, social media, entertainment, music, movies, how all of that is also affecting what our students are believing.
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Luis: So you might be wondering now, what can we do?
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Luis: How do we, as parents, respond biblically, and I think that you might even be wondering well, does that mean that we retreat?
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Luis: Do we just kind of go to our own secluded village and do our own thing?
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Luis: Or do we conform?
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Luis: Do we just go along with what the culture is doing, or do we engage it wisely?
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Luis: And if so, how do we do that?
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Nate: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that's where a lot of Christian parents struggle.
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Nate: We understand it, we know there's a need for it, but we don't know exactly how to navigate these things.
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Nate: So what we want to do is we want to lay out kind of a framework for how we can think through some of these issues and how to respond when we see the world pushing ideas that go against God's truth.
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Nate: We need to know how to respond, and I want to highlight three things that you just said.
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Nate: Right, it's the retreat, the conform or engage.
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Nate: Right, those are kind of the three ways we can respond.
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Nate: It's possible responses.
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Nate: So let's kind of start with that.
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Nate: Like retreat, like what does this look like if a parent is retreating from culture?
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Nate: Lewis?
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Luis: Well, some families have made the decision that they're going to try to avoid culture entirely, and they come up with this idea that if they just keep their kids away from secular influences, that their kid is going to stay strong in their faith.
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Luis: And look, parents, I get it.
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Luis: I'm a very protective dad, right, and so it is our job to protect our kids.
14:57
Luis: It is our job to make sure that we help them avoid things.
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Nate: We're the ones that encourage them to wait as long as possible to give a device or social media to your child.
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Luis: So there is a portion of this right I mean I get it If I could move into the country on 20, 100 acres of land and just have my own little house and my own complex.
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Nate: On the prairie?
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Luis: Yeah, I'd be super happy, right, but we know that complete isolation isn't the complete answer.
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Nate: Yeah, yeah.
15:29
Nate: I think the problem is if you completely isolate, you end up with a weak faith.
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Nate: You've never been exposed to these other ideas, you've not actually thought through it.
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Nate: I think that is where a lot of the deconstruction has come from, was kids grew up with their church and they weren't really exposed to the rest of the world out there, and so when they were hit with it the first time, they just were lost.
15:56
Nate: They didn't know what to do.
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Nate: Not saying we need to go to the other side, just throw them in the deep end, right, but being completely isolated is not going to help our students grow and learn and really get their feet under them spiritually.
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Luis: Yeah, and I actually like that analogy of throwing them in the deep end, right Cause, if you think of when you taught your children how to swim, if you taught them how to swim, you know in our home, like we started them with floaties, right, they wore, they wore one of the floaties that went around like their entire midsection and their arms, and they were with us and so we helped them, and then, as they got braver, they might jump off the diving board into the deep end, but they still had the floaty right.
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Luis: And then not only did they have floaty, but we were there to catch them, and so, and so now both of my girls are good swimmers, but they didn't.
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Luis: I mean, we didn't throw them into the deep end right now.
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Nate: Yeah, no help Nothing, just kick them off the edge.
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Luis: That's what Jesus tells us about how we're supposed to be right.
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Luis: He didn't tell us to just hide away.
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Luis: In fact, he called us to be in the world and not of it right.
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Luis: And so you can't be in the world if you've completely shut yourself off from what's happening in the world.
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Luis: And so the goal isn't to escape culture, but it's how do we prepare our kids to stand firm in it?
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Nate: Yeah, yeah, I think that's really important which then you know you've got the retreating or isolation kind of side.
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Nate: Then you can go to the other end and that would really be like the conforming side.
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Nate: We're just going to blend in with culture and I think that's, you know, a danger and it's really what we see a lot of Christians do.
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Nate: There is no difference between what they live and act like and what they see on TV, in their school, in the culture, wherever they are, and so they just kind of go along and it is just easier.
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Nate: It's like going with the flow.
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Nate: You know, you're on that floaty going down the stream in the lazy river, right, and you're just going along with the culture that way, and that can be dangerous, right, because you don't have the biblical truth to really stand firm when that current is flowing against you.
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Luis: Yeah, in fact, going back to the scripture right at the beginning, right, romans 12, 2, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.
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Luis: But too many Christians today are choosing to blend in, or they're choosing to stay silent, or they're even going as far as just adopting the world's beliefs just to avoid being labeled as judgmental or intolerant.
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Luis: And, parents, I want you to remember that our kids will not stand for biblical truth if they've been raised to think that blending in is the goal.
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Nate: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Nate: So we have to ask ourselves, you know, are we raising kids who fear God or kids who fear man, fear others?
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Nate: Right, and if we're more concerned with their popularity than their faithfulness, then we're leading them in the wrong direction.
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Nate: So I guess, Lewis, what would we say is the right response in these situations?
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Luis: Well, we talked about it earlier, right, engaging the culture with biblical boldness.
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Luis: And that means we don't retreat, that means we don't conform, it means that we stand firm in truth while showing grace in love.
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Luis: Matthew 15, verses 14 through 16, jesus calls us to be the light of the world.
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Luis: He says that we are a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden.
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Luis: And so, parents, that means that you, we, we need to raise kingdom-minded kids, and these are kids who shine the light of Jesus and they're not hiding from the darkness and they're not blending into it either.
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Nate: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Nate: So that's where we're not sending our kids out unprepared, right?
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Nate: We already said it, it's that inoculation You're training them to recognize false worldviews, to think critically, to defend their faith and really think through these things, and so we need to model that in our own lives, around the dinner table, right, so that our kids can go out into the world and engage.
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Luis: Well, yeah, and look, let me be clear, right, we're not saying that engagement means you water down the truth, Like I think that's what some people.
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Luis: When they think of engagement, they're like, okay, I'm only going to give part of the truth, and they water it down.
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Luis: But it also doesn't mean that we approach it with anger or fear, right, Like we're not out to attack them.
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Luis: It means that we stand strong in God's Word and we teach our kids to do the same, and that we trust God with the results.
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Luis: Ephesians 6, 13 reminds us to put on the full armor of God so that, when the day of evil comes, we may be able to stand our ground.
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Luis: That's the goal to equip our kids to stand firm in their faith, no matter what they face Yep, yep, yep.
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Nate: So I think let's just talk about practically okay, how do we really engage culture, how do we help our children engage culture?
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Nate: And I think really there's kind of two ways we can look at.
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Nate: This is, we can kind of look at some biblical examples, but then we can also go into like, what does this actually look like for us today?
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Nate: And I know you know you're probably looking at this, hopefully, if you're listening to this on your car ride to school.
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Nate: Maybe I hope you're not listening to us on one and a half speed because we talk fast anyway.
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Nate: But we're going to make this a two-parter here so we can look at these ideas.
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Nate: So just kind of biblically, where did we see this show up with examples in scripture?
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Nate: Biblically engaging with culture.
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Luis: So, nate, what if we cover one today and then we leave the hook and we give everybody two more to come back?
21:41
Nate: to Okay, there you go, Y'all.
21:43
Nate: You're listening to this real time as we're figuring out what we're doing.
21:45
Luis: It'll be like your favorite TV show, right?
21:47
Luis: So you got to come back next week to get the other two.
21:50
Nate: But wait, there's more, there's more.
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Luis: So let's start with, I think, the most important one, and I think it's our best example, and it's Jesus.
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Luis: Right, jesus spoke truth in love and you think about who he was, what he did and how he related to people.
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Luis: I mean think about the woman at the well.
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Nate: Ooh yeah, that's a great example Because she was there.
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Nate: She actually was an outcast of culture.
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Nate: Jesus, as a Jewish man, had no reason to even talk with this Samaritan woman who was living a very sinful lifestyle.
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Nate: Even the Samaritans disregarded her.
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Nate: You pick up on some of that.
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Nate: As you see, she's coming to draw water at the hottest point in the day in the Middle East.
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Nate: You just don't do that.
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Nate: But Jesus took the time to have a conversation with this person who was a social outcast.
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Luis: And when you see that conversation, you see that Jesus doesn't shy away from tough conversations.
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Luis: Right, we live in a culture today where people want to avoid the hard conversations.
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Luis: But he didn't.
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Luis: But he also didn't approach it with condemnation and so, culturally right, jesus had every reason to ignore her.
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Luis: Jesus had every reason to come at her in a mean way.
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Luis: I mean, probably her so-called friends probably did, her family, if she had anybody probably did Just like you mentioned.
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Luis: She was a Samaritan, she was living in sin.
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Luis: You mentioned she was a Samaritan, she was living in sin, but notice that Jesus doesn't avoid pointing out her lifestyle.
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Luis: That's not how he starts the conversation, but he gets to that.
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Luis: Right, he engaged her with compassion, he asked her questions and those questions led toward the truth and ultimately it revealed who he was.
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Luis: And then what happened?
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Luis: Her life was changed, and not only was it changed, but she went and then she told others about it and then the entire town heard about Jesus because of that conversation that Jesus had.
23:56
Nate: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think that's a really important thing.
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Nate: You know the asking questions.
24:01
Nate: Like you ask your kids questions and see what they're thinking, like you're.
24:06
Nate: In that you're you're getting a gauge for how they're thinking, but you're also kind of prompting them to think through the issues themselves.
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Nate: You know your kid comes home from school and they've got this question because a friend brought up something that's weird, that you've never heard of before, maybe you don't even know, but you're able to like kind of draw it out of them and even say you know, what do you think about that?
24:29
Nate: We see that with Jesus.
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Nate: You know he's asking her about.
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Nate: You know she brings up worship Are we supposed to worship here in Samaria or go down to Jerusalem?
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Nate: And so he asks.
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Nate: You know he asks questions and draws that out of her to get an understanding of who she is and see her as a person.
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Nate: But he doesn't compromise on truth, right?
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Nate: He doesn't accept her answer as correct, but he does give her the chance to present her way of thinking so that then he can inject truth into that conversation we need to disciple our kids to engage with culture.
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Luis: We want them to stand firm, but we also want them to reflect the love of Christ, so that their interactions lead people closer to the truth, not pushing them away.
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Luis: Right, Jesus?
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Luis: The way he asked the questions, the way he engaged with her, he drew her into the conversation.
25:17
Luis: He could have done it a different way.
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Luis: That would have pushed her away from the conversation.
25:22
Nate: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Nate: I mean, at the end he ended up kind of asking a question that was really very pointed to her.
25:29
Nate: You know like, oh, go get your husband.
25:30
Nate: And she admitted.
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Nate: You know, oh well, I've had five husbands, but the one I've got now, you know, it's not my own.
25:36
Nate: And Jesus like draws that out of the conversation, getting her to recognize her sin and even her shame right, that was a point of shame and he's able to bring healing in that situation and draw her out of that.
25:47
Nate: I appreciate that thought.
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Luis: So we covered Jesus today.
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Luis: Yep, there's a good place to start.
25:52
Luis: I think so.
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Nate: Sunday school answer, and it's also a good place to stop right.
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Luis: So Jesus, right?
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Luis: I mean, he's the beginning and the end.
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Luis: He's the Alpha and Omega.
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Luis: In the end, he's the Alpha and Omega, so it all plays into it.
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Luis: But next time we're together, we're going to talk about Paul, we're going to talk about the other apostles in the New Testament and we're going to see how they engage culture, and that gives us an opportunity to see their example.
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Luis: And then from there, what we're going to do is we're going to transition to practical steps for you as parents.
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Luis: So how do we take what Jesus did, how do we take what Paul did, how do we take what the apostles did, and how do we then turn that into the right context for our children today?
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Luis: And so I hope you'll come back and listen to the second part of this.
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Luis: I think there's a lot of good stuff there, but I also want to encourage you with this, right.
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Luis: So if you're listening to this and you're thinking to yourself man, this is a lot, I can't do this.
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Luis: Look, I'm with you.
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Luis: I mean, it's not easy, right?
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Luis: If it was easy, then we wouldn't have the problem we have today, where Gen Z only has 4% of a biblical worldview, right?
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Luis: I mean, we wouldn't have youth pastors and children's pastors, where only one of 10 of them have a biblical worldview.
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Luis: If this was easy, we'd all be doing it, and so don't beat yourself up.
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Luis: Come back, listen to that next part and just see what you can begin doing as a parent.
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Nate: Right, this is episode seven.
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Nate: We'll take a look at those and see if we can answer some of those in future episodes.
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Nate: But for now, thanks for joining us and until next time, keep leading the next generation to stand firm in their faith and influence their world for Christ.