The document addresses the challenges faced by Christians in today's society regarding relativism, pluralism, and the sexual revolution, emphasizing the need for believers to engage effectively and confidently with culture using scripture, wisdom, and conscience. It discusses the implications of changing sexual morals and the normalization of various behaviors, while also examining the historical and cultural factors that have contributed to these shifts. The text encourages Christians to respond thoughtfully to cultural changes and to uphold their values in the face of societal pressures.

1. A cHRISTIAN
today’s world
WITNESS in
Tactics + sTRATEGIES
Relativism
The Bible
Pluralism
Islam
Sexual Revolution
Media
Training and Equipping Believers
to Live Out a Confident Faith

2. A cHRISTIAN
today’s world
WITNESS in
Tactics + sTRATEGIES
Relativism
The Bible
iSLAM
Media
Training and Equipping Believers
to Live Out a Confident Faith
Pluralism
SEXUAL rEVOLUTION

3. tACTICS
Skills for effective discussions
Columbo, Taking the Roof Off, etc.

4. The Challenge of:
Authority
Relativism The Bible

5. The Challenge of:
Worldviews
Pluralism Islam

6. Culture
“We can live however we want”
The Challenge Of:

7. Culture
Sexual Revolution
The Challenge Of:
Media

8. Culture
The Challenge of:
“We can live however we want”

9. SEXUAL rEVOLUTION
“Sexuality is whatever we want it
to be”
The Challenge Of Culture - part 1

10. Media
“Media Doesn’t Affect Me”
The Challenge Of Culture - part 2

11. Tonight

12. SEXUAL rEVOLUTION
How should Christians react to the
happening in our country?

14. Standards

15. “I wrote to you in my epistle not to
keep company with sexually
immoral people.
1 Corinthians 5:9

16. Yet I certainly did not mean with
the sexually immoral people of this
world
1 Corinthians 5:10

17. …or with the covetous, or
extortioners, or idolaters, since then
you would need to go out of the
world.
1 Corinthians 5:10

18. But now I have written to you not to
keep company with anyone named a
brother, who is sexually immoral…
1 Corinthians 5:11

19. …or covetous, or an idolater, or a
reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner
—not even to eat with such a person.
1 Corinthians 5:12

20. For what have I to do with judging
those also who are outside? Do you not
judge those who are inside?
1 Corinthians 5:12

21. But those who are outside God judges.
Therefore “put away from yourselves the
evil person.”
1 Corinthians 5:13

22. Key Principle:
We do not judge the world with
the same standard that we judge
other believers

23. Therefore concerning the eating of things
offered to idols, we know that an idol is
nothing in the world, and that there is
no other God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:4

24. For even if there are so-called gods,
whether in heaven or on earth (as there
are many gods and many lords),
1 Corinthians 8:5

25. yet for us there is one God, the Father, of
whom are all things, and we for Him; and
one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are
all things, and through whom we live.
1 Corinthians 8:5

26. However, there is not in everyone that
knowledge; for some, with consciousness
of the idol, until now eat it as a thing
offered to an idol; and their conscience,
being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:7

27. But food does not commend us to God;
for neither if we eat are we the better, nor
if we do not eat are we the worse.
1 Corinthians 8:8

28. But beware lest somehow this liberty of
yours become a stumbling block to those
who are weak.
1 Corinthians 8:9

29. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge
eating in an idol’s temple, will not the
conscience of him who is weak be
emboldened to eat those things offered to
idols?
1 Corinthians 8:10

30. Therefore, if food makes my brother
stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I
make my brother stumble.
1 Corinthians 8:13

31. Some things are a matter of
conscience to some, while not being a
matter of conscience to others.
Key Principle:

32. So what do we use to
engage this issue?

33. Scripture
wisdom
Conscience

34. Ambassadors

35. Ambassadors
Knowledge
Wisdom
Character
An accurately informed mind
An artful method of engagement
A warm and attractive manner

36. The Sexual Revolution
The Challenge of:
“We can live however we want”

37. Sexual Revolution?
What do I mean by

38. Sexual Revolution
The acceptance and
normalization of redefined
sexual behavior and gender roles
from their natural design.

39. This revolution Includes:
Homosexual behavior
Same-sex marriage
Gender identity
Fierce
intolerance
Agressive
propaganda

42. “Churches have always faced difficult moral
issues and they have muddled through.” Some
will argue that the challenge of the sexual
revolution and the normalization of
homosexuality is nothing new or unusual.
-Theo Hobson “A Pink Reformation”

43. He says, “Until quite recently I would have
agreed,” but he also says “it becomes ever
clearer that the issue of homosexuality
really is different.”
-Theo Hobson “A Pink Reformation”

44. “Something that was assumed for centuries
to be unspeakably immoral has emerged as
an alternative form of life, an identity that
merits legal protection.
-Theo Hobson “A Pink Reformation”

45. The demand for gay equality has basically
ousted traditionalist sexual morality
from the moral high ground.”
-Theo Hobson “A Pink Reformation”

46. Consequences
Every Revolution has

47. Intended

48. unintended

49. How did we get
here?

50. Setting the stage
The Sexual Revolution:
“We can live however we want”

51. cultural events
What were the most significant
that led us to this point?

59. significant
Why was the pill so
for the sexual revolution?

60. sex and procreation
For the first time in human history
became disconnected

62. The role of sex: PRe-pill
Heterosexual Marriage
Procreation
Benefit:
Result:
Purpose:
Boundaries:
Larger Purpose: Family and Community
Pleasure
Healthy human communities

63. The role of sex: Since pill
None because no babies!
Individual Pleasure
Benefit:
Result:
Purpose:
Boundaries:
Larger Purpose: More Pleasure
No accountability
Unintended consequences

64. Consequences

65. Consequences
Intended Unintended
Control the birth
of children
STD’s, teen
pregnancy, abortion,
child abuse, family
breakdown, etc.

66. significant
cultural shift
The second

67. “no-fault” divorce

68. Philadelphia, 1974

69. Philadelphia, 1974
“No Fault” Divorce
A law that stated a married couple
could get divorced without formally
assigning blame to one party or the
other. Divorce without “fault”.

70. Consequences
Intended Unintended
To minimize the
pain and shame
of the divorce
process
The trivialization of
the institution of
marriage. Divorce
becomes easier.

71. Marriage
What happens when…
is trivial
divorce
is easy
sex
is only about individual pleasure?

72. Families
What happens when…
crumble
Culture
becomes carnal
Sexuality
is a vehicle of destruction instead of life

73. God
is forgotten

74. Other essential Factors
The Sexual Revolution:
“We can live however we want”

75. The Pill:
Sex outside the marriage covenant no
longer has natural consequences
No-Fault
Divorce:
Divorce without blame leads to more
marriages dissolving
Sexuality of all kinds is everywhere
Marriages break down, society follows

76. contributed
What other factors
to where we are now?

78. Urbanization:
The presence of cities played a huge role how people
were influenced. Usually started in cities, worked outward
Antibiotics:
Medical technologies played a role in reducing the
effects of syphilis and other STD’s
Another consequence of sexual immorality is removed.

79. Authority:
Traditional authority structures are challenged
People are more individualistic and narcissistic
Education:
Atheism and postmodernism from the academy begin
to infiltrate popular culture
Truth is relative, to believe anything is weak

80. Weakening Families:
Parental authority and protection began to decrease.
Youth become more rebellious and disconnected
Philosophy:
Sexuality changed from being about pleasure to being
about a fundamental human right.
It is no longer about freedom. It’s about rights.

81. Media Saturation:
Hollywood becomes a megaphone for sexual immorality
The more we see it, the more normal it becomes
Churches Caving:
Churches abandoning the clear teachings of Scripture
and history to conform to the culture.
Our convictions oppose their “rights”

82. we are the problem

83. How do we Respond?
The Sexual Revolution:
“We can live however we want”

84. Scripture
wisdom
Conscience

85. Scripture
wisdom
Conscience

86. Should we boycott Target?

87. Should we boycott Home Depot?

88. Should we boycott, Period?

89. albertmohler.com

91. “I charge you therefore before God
and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will
judge the living and the dead at His
appearing and His kingdom:
2 Timothy 4:1

92. Preach the word! Be ready in season
and out of season. Convince, rebuke,
exhort, with all longsuffering and
teaching.
2 Timothy 4:2

93. For the time will come when they will
not endure sound doctrine, but
according to their own desires, because
they have itching ears, they will heap
up for themselves teachers;
2 Timothy 4:3

94. But you be watchful in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work of an
evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 4:5

95. Homosexuality
Responding to
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