Following Jesus in an Age of Authenticity
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Two first-rate thinkers on cultural engagement, Russell Moore and Tim Keller, sit down with Collin Hansen to guide us through the turbulent currents of today’s cultural waters to the true freedom only found by submitting to Christ. They help us consider what happens when we buy into this narrative and it doesn’t deliver the happiness it promises, where they see this expressive individualism influencing the church, and more.
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I have a personality that values authenticity, probably to a fault. For me, I had to find my own faith, not someone else's. People who value authenticity will actually become very suspicious of anyone who tries to manipulate or persuade them toward believing something. Not only that, we are very sensitive to recognizing these kinds of tactics. This is why preachers and writers who are not afraid of the hard truths, and who are willing to be vulnerable with us, are the most effective..i.e. John Piper. What I've determined is that people who rely on authenticity feel threatened if the motivations behind what they are being told are not clearly defined, or if those motivations don't meet up to what they consider to be "good," "right," and true. For me, I had to find value in God's character in order to find faith in him, and in order for that to happen, I had to determine that he had a worthy character. Most personalities who value authenticity understand and admit to their own limitations, which allows for us to see our need for God, but the "god" who seems most pure in his motivations will have the greater draw for us. For me, understanding the Gospel was key to finding value in God's motivations. If I were to have started reading Judges without any understanding of the "big picture" of who God is, I would have walked away. Once I understood God's motivations behind self sacrifice, even if some of what he does and allows doesn't "seem" right in my own understanding, I realize that he can be trusted. When you start with the Gospel, that God chose to limit himself, to suffer, and die, that motivation allows for a feeling of safety and trust of the rest of his character, and of his word. Luckily, he also tells us that he is never changes, that he is reliable and trustworthy, and that he is good, just, merciful, humble and true. Without the Gospel, there is no bridge to trust.
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Hi Christy Hunt, wonderful post. I'm quite interested in how you got to your understanding as I'm trying to understand the character of God and to place all my faith in Him. Could I message you privately please?
Very helpful. Well said.
I think authenticity is about choosing the best path and not caving to peer pressure and the high that comes from external validation.
But are you not caving to peer pressure by doing that.
Even if that's not the case though both approches have a problem, if your identity is based on external validation (like with a lot of famous/popular people for example), your identity falls apart when they don't validate you anymore or you don't keep growing and getting more popular.
On the other hand suppose you only go off your own opinion of yourself you won't make it either, I mean even if you distance yourself from everybody else and don't care about their opinions.
You can't even live up to your own values, I mean for example if you write down all the values you have put on other people and told them they should do. If you were to look back at the end of your life you won't have lived up to your own standards of what is "right" and your identity will collapse because it's only based on what you think of yourself
And if you think yourself worthless because you let yourself down (and you will).
Well then your identity has collapsed anyway unless you have extremely low standards.
I mean that's what the entire gospel thing is about, that ultimately you can't live up to any standards but that despite that you are forgiven and you do have worth no matter what anyone else says and no matter what you say or think about yourself.
Because that means that the entire world could be saying you are worthless and you could be saying you are worthless, yet nothing changes there's nothing you or anyone else could do to make you worthless.
Saddens me to see Tim Keller selling his sermons on his website for $1,500. Unfathomable. Authentic greed?
C.S. L. It is over 1500 sermons, literally a dollar a sermon, you pay more than that for a 3 minute song on iTunes. And you don’t know where the money is going, he likely puts it back into the church.
Here are plenty of free sermons from Tim Keller:
czcams.com/users/gospelinlifevideos
gospelinlife.com/?fwp_categories=sermons-talks&fwp_cost=free&fwp_speaker=timothy-j-keller
Its shameful, no other pastor, not even celebrity pastors that I know of charges money for people to listen to their sermons on their churches website. Whats worse is that he receives a salary to preach these sermons in church from the congregation but then turns around to double dip off them from the general public. I could understand if it were conferences or non worship service events, but these are Lords Day worship services and he already has received his due for those services. Should the gospel be chained behind a paywall or should it be freely given to others? He easily could have put those sermons on sermon audio for free like the majority of local reformed pastors do whose churches and salaries are a fraction of what Keller probably makes. They keep it free though because they're more concerned with getting the preaching of the Word out to people, the life changing infallible Word, not stuffing their coffers by nickel and dimeing people. Sadly however, Keller chooses to sell them off on a plastic flash drive for over $1000. We get mad at prosperity preachers for asking for way less money for their products, why should Keller get a pass? It boarders on simony in my opinion.
We are servants of GOD not a slave to GOD... timothy is off base... close but he will be tagged out for being off base...! However it would be good for everyone to make up there own mind on the slave servant thing.... we are either slaves to the satan or servants to CHRIST!!! There is no other choice. xo
I think he is referring to the passage in 1 Corinthians 9:19
We are willing servants until we are proven into all obedience. Then we are nothing else and become waged workers. Working for our salvation. If the work is not done and kept up we are afflicted, persecuted, and under press. The term "slave" in the 1500's and before (up until the hard bondage of the Africans in the America's) meant "to work for wages".
Not all slaves were wage workers before the 1500's. Please don't even begin to think it's provable from scripture that the Jews were taken on into Egypt as mere waged workers. You're reading your own opinions into the text.
@@elevateya he uses that on purpose, I would say slave/servant isn't that different though the point is that your identity is always tied to something so you are always a slave/servant to something