Season 3, episode 3: "How the Concept of Faith has been Distorted and Makes us More Selfish."

Friends! Faith is a private matter, and God just wants you to do what feels good, be the best version of yourself, and be a good dude, as long as you aren't hurting anyone. Right?

These are the claims about FAITH that the You Do You Era preaches. And these claims are shallow, unfulfilling, erase the need for a Messiah like Jesus, and it leads only to more self-centered living.

But there is a better way!

To be fully human is to be like Christ. Why? Because Christ was the fullest, most whole/complete/perfect human to ever have lived. So, to be more human, is to be more like Christ...not to follow ourselves, but to put our minds on things above, to die the first death (to ourselves) so we might be made alive in Christ (Colossians 3).

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Throughout this season, we want to remove the cultural scales from our eyes using insight from:
Alan Noble (You are Not your Own)
Andrew Root (Ministry in the Secular Age series)
Alan Ehrenberg (Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age)
Charles Taylor (A Secular Age)
Andy Crouch (The Tech-Wise Family)
Leonard Sax (The Collapse of Parenting)
All of Jean Twenge's (SDSU) recent interviews / articles / and her books
James K.A. Smith's books and articles
N.T. Wright (The Day the Revolution Began among others)
Alasdair MacIntyre (After Virtue)
The New and Old Testaments... plus other works that we sprinkle throughout.

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