Is the Bible RELEVANT in Modern Times???

Conversations with John & Lisa Bevere

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Did you know that a staggering 83% of those in our culture believe that truth is relative? On top of that, 70% consider church irrelevant, and a whopping 46% live in anxiety. Could it be that these realities are somehow connected? In this episode of Conversations, John & Lisa do a deep dive into the cost of believing that you know better than God does when it comes to determining what is best for your life. They speak to how we as followers of Christ are called to resist the current of our culture, providing practical strategies for doing that effectively. If you want to build a faith that endures to the end and find true peace in this chaotic world, you won’t want to miss this episode!

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0:00.0	And the truth is the Bible is actually incredibly relevant.
0:04.0	So if you actually preach scripture, it is relevant to what's happening in our culture today.
0:11.8	You and I have been reading certain scriptures recently and it sounds
0:15.1	like they were written for this day and this time because the word of God is alive and it's
0:20.9	eternal. It doesn't change and it will always speak to us because it is the
0:25.8	living word of God. So culture can change, but the word remains the same. The same. I want to welcome you to conversations with John and Lisa Bevere, and I'm actually really excited that people have joined us for this.
0:45.8	I know this is something that is super, super heavy on your heart.
0:52.1	Not heavy in a bad way but like an urgent see way and we are
0:56.3	super excited about this we're talking about persevering to the end yeah Lisa you know Jesus constantly says he who end to the end shall be saved.
1:07.6	The Apostle Paul is continually writing if you continue.
1:12.4	The writer of Hebrews writes if you continue. The writer of Hebrew's rights if you stay steadfast if you continue.
1:18.4	Well before you go too far with this I actually want to talk about the problem of what is going on right now who is not really
1:26.0	continuing because we have some current stats John do you want to hear these oh this
1:29.9	okay recent poll it says 83% of our culture, our society, believe that truth is relative.
1:39.4	Like you can have a truth, I can have a truth, what was true true last week might not be true next week that they think that
1:46.4	truth is a way to me I'm sorry I'm gonna interrupt you 8 a 83% is 8 out of every 10 people.
1:53.3	So in other words, 8 out of every 10 people think that truth is
1:57.2	according to whatever I think it should be.
1:59.7	Fealings, culture, political climate, their personal experiences, all of those things.
2:06.0	Lisa, that's so scary.
2:07.0	So let's stop right there and talk about truth.
2:11.0	Okay, truth, Jesus said in John 17,
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