Navigating Culture with Conviction and Grace

[@vas_526]

Just recently found this channel & it has already become one of my favorites to watch on here. I have a lot of respect for the way you carry yourself, God bless brother!!! 🙏

[@bryangumpic7992]

I read Sean's book in Sean's voice. lol. As a youth leader, this talk helps a lot. Thanks.

[@davelane237]

Bought the book and looking forward to reading it. Thanks Sean for all you do for this next generation. I heard you at SLU 101 a few years ago and you impacted me and my students so much.

[@SeanMcDowell]

I’m honored, thanks Dave. Let us know what you think. I love SLU btw.

[@Jimgoodwin846]

Sean you're so right on about forming secular arguments to reason with others. Most people are turned off when we quote scripture as a reason for anything because they are coming from secular world view themselves. Unless, they are believers and sometimes we don't even agree with them.

[@s.i.williams2876]

Awesome conversation!! Vital info.! Looking forward to reading your new book Dr. Sean, and discussing more of these topics with my teenage son. Thank you and God bless! 🙏

[@SeanMcDowell]

Woo hoo, go for it!

[@davidjanbaz7728]

Dr. Scott Rae : thanks for being such a great teacher in my two classes with you in the 90's.

[@SeanMcDowell]

That’s awesome you had him in the 90s. Me too!

[@davidjanbaz7728]

@@SeanMcDowell Thanks they were part of my graduate program.

[@JMLUSA1]

Thank You Gentleman. Ordered, Shared, and INSPIRED! Thank you Sean for sharing your sister's story.

[@SeanMcDowell]

Thanks Joel. Let us know what you think of it.

[@Notevenone]

I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and didn’t want it to end. Thank you

[@SeanMcDowell]

You’re welcome!

[@Notevenone]

@@SeanMcDowell just started listening to your podcast. So much to listen to. I listen to your The Chosen podcast and I am one of those who became a Christian because of the show. It’s quit wonderful. Thank you for that interview.

[@Liberty_Sword]

Sean, I think you're a fantastic preacher, interviewer, a great apologist, and all around great Christian public influencer. That video you did where you portrayed an atheist with the glasses on was fantastic. I think you should do more of that! I think It shows even atheists how much you understand their position, yet know of a better way. Never again can an atheist justly act as if you don't understand their position.

[@SeanMcDowell]

I'm glad you enjoyed that presentation. I certainly have a lot to learn, but I do try to understand the positions of others as well as I can. Thanks!

[@kathrynknipe6615]

Thanks!

[@KM-zn3lx]

I was bullied as a girl. It's horrible. I was even thrown off a school bus while it was still moving! I stood up against nasty girls byou can't always avoid it!

[@laugustam]

Wonderful program, Sean! God bless you both. Just wanted to say something I picked up on my observations of the issues around abortion. It seems that both sides start off with some right demands but in taking sides and dividing the issues, they end up taking on extreme views and end up being in the wrong.

[@SeanMcDowell]

Thanks for watching and sharing!

[@KM-zn3lx]

In abortion where it results in certain death, how can you not be considered extreme by the other side if you don't agree with it?

[@laugustam]

@@KM-zn3lx well, if you have some understanding of why they hold that perspective, and some empathy, then you might just try to find a different approach because just being so passionately against each others' positions is driving a divide so extreme that its becoming blurred and difficult to see who is right in the end. It's tough but it's the only way forward. When abortion encompasses a whole range of pregnancy loss which included miscarriage and natural of risky abortions, then you might just be doing some serious damage, and nobody will know what they're doing anymore.

[@janicephillips6813]

Please tell me the title of the book... is it A Rebel's Manifesto?

[@SeanMcDowell]

Yes, that’s it.

[@withanjali4470]

Anything in limits is great

[@maryloulongenbaugh7069]

My RCatholuc female neighbor is going to college in two weeks. Would this book deal with important issues without Catholic critique? I do not want to give her a book that confronts her Catholic faith.

[@SeanMcDowell]

Yes, I don’t critique Catholicism at all. It’s focused more on what Lewis called “Mere Christianity.”

[@dansaber4427]

@@SeanMcDowell I guess that's why the knowledge of Good and Evil is so tempting right?

[@maryloulongenbaugh7069]

@@SeanMcDowell ordered. Thx.

[@darlagreen2872]

Interesting conversation. I haven't read book but curious about the race part of conversation. Aren't we ALL the same in Christ? Doesn't the Bible deal with this already? Acknowledging humans sin in horrible ways, societies sin in horrible ways. Are you saying you believe in "oppressor/oppressed" culture that society and some churches are believing today?

[@SeanMcDowell]

Thanks for watching. The chapter on race is one of my favs and, for the record, I don’t embrace critical theory in any realm (oppressed vs oppressor)

[@darlagreen2872]

Thank you so much for clearing that up. Ive been watching your videos and found them sound and inspiring, btw

[@janicephillips6813]

Also I know you have thick skin, Sean, but it still bothers me when people bully you, use demeaning language to try to humiliate you. Please be respectful and ask questions... don't just call names, people!

[@SeanMcDowell]

Thanks Janice. I’ve come to realize that such treatment is par for the course these days, sadly. My hope is that we Christians don’t return the favor.

[@SpotterVideo]

What happened to Stephen when he told the truth to his own people? Did Paul tell the truth at the Jewish temple, and had to be rescued from the crowd by Roman soldiers? Did Paul have 195 lashes on his back? New Covenant Whole Gospel: Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him. He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14. Awaken Church to this truth. Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by husband unto them, saith the LORD: Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis? Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart. Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36) Watch the KZbin videos “The New Covenant” by David Wilkerson, or Bob George, and David H.J. Gay.

[@noahphillips9180]

I also am blown away after watching some videos of Sean communicating with others so kindly, even when that same kindness isn’t returned. His behavior always convicts me to be kinder to others. You’re a great example, Sean!

[@brianwhitaker5288]

Sean is so fair and loves God and loves people. Velkyn1 , that is unfair and holds no weight. Cmon dude, seriously he covers the toughest topics like a gentleman and does his homework. Guess who, the Bible is documented history and neither the Bible or God supported it. The research has to be done with issues like this and I assure if that were true , I’d never be a Christian In Christ’s Love Brian Whitaker

[@Liberty_Sword]

No, it's not a "white lense", and it's not "white normativity". The reason why you could go so long without thinking about race is because of social conservatism, or, "socially conservative normativity". The problem, is that many define socially conservative as "white" and socially liberal as "black". There's no "white" way of thinking or "black" way of thinking. There's an urban way of thinking and a suburban way of thinking, but too many people define urban as "black" and suburban as "white". You can be black and live your whole childhood and your 20's without ever thinking about race. We don't live under Jim crow or slavery in 2022. Today, it's about how you define your experience and how to avoid unnecessary paranoia in the way that you define things. If your ancestors were slaves under big government laws, and your grandparents lived under big government Jim crow laws, then that may explain some of why your family today is poor, however, if there are no racist big government suppression LAWS today, then the only thing that there is to rationally define, is that you're poor. The reason WHY you're poor is irrelevant to the issue. If you're black and you're poor because your grandparents suffered under Jim crow, and if you're white and you're poor living in the trailer park because your grandparents and parents are addicted to meth, then you are both in the same boat as far as how you can move forward and how you can choose to live, and how you can be taught to live. Anything else about the past should be educational purposes only (teach all sides and all relevant facts) and not indoctrination, and if the past is being used to retrain you on how to think today, then it's brainwashing.

[@RickysLifeVlog]

I didn’t watch the video. Just came to say the title and thumbnail caption both say 2 different things that are unrelated.

[@SeanMcDowell]

Are you sure? I think there’s a connection if you’ll give it a moment..

[@zacdredge3859]

16:05 Sounds like he didn't really change topic. 😏

[@GuessWhoAsks]

The bible allowed slavery because the people at the time did not consider it to be immoral. How do you reconcile that with considering the bible to be a guide for morality?

[@SeanMcDowell]

I’m doing a show soon on tough Qs in the OT. So, hang in there!

[@angelr9096]

Someone can correct me on this, but my understanding is that slavery back in those times was more like live-in servants. And God definitely condemned cruelty toward servants. I believe they also had a chance to work off their debt, and they also had an opportunity to live with that family forever if they loved it there. I'm pretty sure I got those facts right, that's just off the top of my head. It's not the slavery that happened in our recent history.

[@GuessWhoAsks]

@@angelr9096 Hi Angela. If you dont mind if we can agree on the definitions of the terms we use and you do not mind reading scripture, then I can offer to try to help. Which version of the bible do you follow? Can we agree that chattel slavery is bad? Merriam Webster's dictionary lists a defintion of chattel as ": an enslaved person held as the legal property of another : BONDMAN".....do you accept that definition?

[@GuessWhoAsks]

​@@SeanMcDowell Just subscriged with notifications so that I do not miss it.... thanks

[@KM-zn3lx]

Slavery that the Bible was referring to in Paul's day was a form of indentured servitude for the most part. It wasn't slavery as you know it.

[@SpotterVideo]

New Covenant Whole Gospel: Let us now share the Old Testament Gospel found below with the whole world. On the road to Emmaus He said the Old Testament is about Him. He is the very Word of God in John 1:1, 14. Awaken Church to this truth. Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by husband unto them, saith the LORD: Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Is the most important genealogy in the Bible found in Matthew 1:1 (Gal. 3:16)? Is God's Son the ultimate fulfillment of Israel (John 1:49)? Why has the modern Church done a pitiful job of sharing the Gospel with modern Orthodox Jews? Why would someone tell them they are God's chosen people and then fail to share the Gospel with them? Who is the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3:15? Who is the "son" in Psalm 2? Who is the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53? Who would fulfill the New Covenant promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Who would fulfill the timeline of Daniel chapter 9 before the second temple was destroyed? Why have we not heard this simple Old Testament Gospel preached on Christian television in the United States on a regular basis? Once a person comes to understand the New Covenant promised to Israel and Judah in Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is found fulfilled by Christ during the first century in Hebrews 8:6-13, and Hebrews 10:16-18, and specifically applied to the Church in 2 Corinthians 3:6-8, and Hebrews 12:22-24, man-made Bible doctrines fall apart. Let us now learn to preach the whole Gospel until He comes back. The King of Israel is risen from the dead! (John 1:49, Acts 2:36) Watch the KZbin videos “The New Covenant” by David Wilkerson, or Bob George, and David H.J. Gay. ======================== Which baptism is a part of the salvation process, based on what the Bible says? What did Peter say below? Acts 11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Acts 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Act 11:17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God? Based on Luke 3:16, and John 1:33, and Acts 11:15-16, the most important thing about the word "baptize" in the New Testament has nothing to do with water. The Holy Spirit is the master teacher promised to New Covenant believers in Jeremiah 31:34, and John 14:26, and is found fulfilled in Ephesians 1:13, and 1 John 2:27. Unfortunately, many modern Christians see water when they read the word "baptize" in the text. Based on the above, what is the one baptism of our faith found in the passage below? How many times is the word "Spirit" found in the passage, and how many times is the word "water" found in the passage? Eph 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Eph 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, “baptize” KJV Mat_3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Mar_1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. Luk_3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: Joh_1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; Joh_1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 1Co_1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

[@royhiggins7270]

“We need to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk - that’s not in the Constitution.” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) Lauren Boebert calls for laws to enforce "biblical citizenship training" in our schools. “We’re not bending the knee to the two percent anymore,” said Andrew Torba, founder of the right-wing-friendly social platform Gab, referring to Jewish people in the United States. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, told a Christian gathering last November, “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God.” The 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion in Indiana should have carried her pregnancy to term and would be required to do so under a model law written for state legislatures considering more restrictive abortion measures, according to the general counsel for the National Right to Life. Former President Donald Trump said during a speech on Saturday that "Americans kneel to God" alone, as the concept of Christian nationalism continues to gain traction among conservatives. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is attended a rally in Pennsylvania with state Sen. Doug Mastriano. Mastriano has praised Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab and a self-described Christian nationalist. Desantis is the most insidious of them all because he knows better. Jesus created the Trump-Republican Taliban! When the Civil War starts will you choose America or Theocracy?

[@SeanMcDowell]

Just so you know, this video is not about politics. I’m hoping to deal with Christian nationalism later…

[@royhiggins7270]

@@SeanMcDowell Christians have already waited too long to deal with Christian Nationalism...the only question now is which side will you choose to fight with? By very definition Christianity is about politics...especially when the majority of the American persuasion embrace men like Trump.

[@velkyn1]

@@SeanMcDowell sure, Sean, just like you were going to respond to me and show me I'm wrong when I called you out being a sad little chrisitan who only thinks his version is true, right?

[@angelr9096]

@@velkyn1 hey, you okay? You seem pretty angry. I don't know what you're referring to, but as far as him thinking his version is correct.. every one of us thinks our version of beliefs is correct, or else we wouldn't believe them! There's nothing wrong with thinking that your beliefs are correct. Because if you didn't think your beliefs were correct, you would change them.

[@velkyn1]

@@angelr9096 So, Angela, why do you feel it necessary to convince yourself that someone isn't "okay"? Happily, I'm not angry at all. I do get annoyed with christians constantly lying. Alas, you and Sean don't just think your religion is the only correct one, you want to force it on others. that's when it is wrong to think your beliefs correct and when everyone can stand up and point out the failures and lies of your religion. " hey, you okay? You seem pretty angry. I don't know what you're referring to, but as far as him thinking his version is correct.. every one of us thinks our version of beliefs is correct, or else we wouldn't believe them! There's nothing wrong with thinking that your beliefs are correct. Because if you didn't think your beliefs were correct, you would change them."

[@jmorra]

" Bullies are insecure?" This is false. They have an inflated view of their importance and power. They are often popular, and can be quite charismatic and likable. They are often funny. The solution? Love them by beating the shit out of them, in the name of Jesus. Justice must be distributed, after all else fails.

[@noahphillips9180]

Justice isn’t distributed by us, ultimately justice is served by God. I have known plenty of bullies and seen them transition from a nice kid to a bully or vice versa. No matter how much people like you or how much charisma and outside confidence they have, if they have an emptiness without purposeful direction in life they will have a much deeper insecurity than any Christian.

[@velkyn1]

Sean isn't a rebel. He's just another Christian liar, who can't stand up to anyone, including me. He does nothing risky at all. it seems a man going through a mid-life crisis has to pretend he's being ever so daring.

[@maryloulongenbaugh7069]

Sean is not a liar. Move along.

[@jmorra]

What are you, a tough guy saying nasty shit here on the internet? Write a book and explain why you're such a badass, and then we'll fully understand your perspective.

[@velkyn1]

@@jmorra "What are you, a tough guy saying nasty shit here on the internet? Write a book and explain why you're such a badass, and then we'll fully understand your perspective." no, John, I'm a tough gal, revealing how christians lie on the internet. And poor dear, you'd say anything to try to convince me not to keep doing so, since you can't show I'm wrong. Why write a book when I can write the same things here?

[@BrettBaker66]

@@velkyn1 for example....?

[@velkyn1]

@@maryloulongenbaugh7069 Sorry, Mary Lou, but just making a baseless claim doesn't work. Show I'm wrong.