Not of It Part 1
Not Of It • 45m
Right now everybody's insides are pouring out and onto to the streets, into conversations at the dinner table, and creating a host of negative and separating emotions. We are being forced to stake out positions, plant ourselves, and take a side. It is unavoidable. What also seems to be unavoidable is identifying ourselves with cultural and political positions at the expense of our biblical and spiritual identity. There's a word for that - it's called "hijacking." Issues are being conflated and blended and eventually taken over by agendas that just don't feel right to us on every side of the cultural and political spectrum. How do you identify yourself? What does that identity tell you to do and say? What allegiance is owed to that identity? What outcomes does that identity, energy, and allegiance produce for your relationships with God and people? Jesus knew his disciples needed clarity on who they were or else they would not know what to under the cultural pressures of their times. In Part 1 of NOT OF IT author and pastor Kenny Luck takes us back to the most clarifying about you, about this cultural moment, and about your conduct within it by shining the light on what Jesus declares to his disciples about their primary identity and allegiance in the midst of powerful cultural tension
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Not of It Part 2
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Not of It Part 3
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Not of It Part 4
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