Host critiques the modern expectation that serious Christians must plant churches in major cities like Manhattan or Seattle, arguing these locations often hinder discipleship and family life. He urges believers to avoid areas where taxes fund entities like Planned Parenthood or progressive schools, advocating instead for a 500-year plan to raise children in the faith without compromising values. While acknowledging some wealthy exceptions, he emphasizes that if Christ is sufficient, location shouldn't dictate ministry, challenging seminary professors who claim otherwise and urging listeners to support the message through reviews despite economic struggles under Biden's administration. [Automatically generated summary]
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Raising Children Without Compromise00:08:01
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Urban inner city ministry.
That was all the rage, and still is.
I don't know how, but apparently, still is.
For the last 30 years, 40 years, right?
It's like, if you want to be somebody, if you want to be a serious Christian, you need to be a pastor.
And not just a pastor, you need to be a church planter.
And not just a church planter.
If you go plant a church in a small town in Texas or Tennessee, we're not going to say it verbatim, but I mean, you're kind of disappointing God, right?
You're going to go minister to those primitive, Neanderthal, blue collar, flyover country, hillbilly Christians.
No, no, no, no.
You want to do something that pleases the Lord?
Go to Manhattan, right?
Go to Seattle.
And I personally think that in the last 30 years, an immense amount of discipleship has happened in the ministry of Tim Keller.
The problem is, I think that the discipleship happened the other way around.
I think that New York has discipled Tim Keller really well.
I don't think that Tim Keller has discipled New York.
I think he lost.
And so I don't think that it's particularly advantageous for us to continue to encourage young men who are called to marry, to have children, to honor their father and mother in tangible ways, provide for their wives so that predominantly they can be keepers at home, provide for their children, seek to fill a quiver with children, not hand them to Caesar in the public school system, but to Raise them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord, the paideia of the Lord, Christian curriculum,
and seek to leave an inheritance not only to their children, but their children's children.
And then say, and you should do that while being a church planter in Manhattan?
What?
No, no, no, no.
Just leave.
Outside the gate, outside the city.
No, just leave.
You don't have to go and plant in Manhattan.
You don't have to go to Seattle.
You don't have to be a church planter or a missionary or a faithful Christian in San Francisco.
God may call some to stay.
In those contexts.
But I believe currently, this isn't for all times and all places, but the sons of Issachar, the skill that they had was they were able to know the times.
We as Christians need to be able to know the times.
Not just ideologues that think that, well, doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
It's always, we don't need to be ideologues, but we also don't need to be opportunists.
So we don't just stick our finger in the wind and see whatever the popular culture is saying at the time and we just echo that.
We're not opportunists.
Who are compromised, but we're also not foolish ideologues who are suicidal.
Kamikaze fighters.
No, no, no, no.
We want to have not just a five year plan, but a 500 year plan.
We want to build to last.
If you want to be a farmer, don't start a crop in the Sahara Desert.
Move.
It's like, well, but I just want to be faithful.
And I just want to prove that I'm the best farmer who ever was.
Okay, well, you could do that by growing one potato in the Sahara Desert.
Or you could be the best farmer there ever was by growing the most potatoes that have ever been grown in Idaho.
Why not opt for the latter?
Well, there are people in the Sahara that need a potato.
Yeah, you know what?
Well, you can ship them a million potatoes from Idaho instead of carving up and sharing one that you grew right there at ground zero.
We can't afford to be ideologues and suicidal.
We also cannot afford to be compromised opportunists who just go where the wind blows.
But I believe in this current moment, a very practical application of our text, the Hebrew Christians.
Ultimately, the big idea that I'm trying to get at with this text, and I'll land the plane here.
The big idea is this if Christ is really enough, then you don't need Judaism.
If Christ is really enough, and the temple that he's building is a living and spiritual temple, then you don't need this geographic place.
You don't need this temple of stone.
You don't need this city that crucified him.
But you can actually follow him.
He was taken outside of the city to be put to death, and you can go and find him right out there.
And you, as Christians, you can seek to live quiet lives, as the scripture says elsewhere, to work with your hands.
You're allowed to do that, brothers and sisters.
And any high minded, sophisticated, ivory tower seminary professor, professional pastor on the internet who tells you otherwise is lying.
You are not being faithless or compromising or being displeasing to God by saying, I want to raise children, I want to have grandchildren, I want to own a couple acres of land.
And I'm gonna do it, not in Manhattan.
You're allowed to do that, brother and sister.
You're allowed to do that.
And that doesn't mean you quit.
It doesn't mean you surrendered.
It doesn't mean you lost.
It doesn't mean you sinned.
I think it means you're wise.
And to do the alternative, I think, is foolish.
Some can do it.
If you're a millionaire, okay, maybe you can do it.
Even then, though, I would make an argument theologically and practically, some can do it.
Live in that bright blue liberal city and a blue state.
Some can do it.
Even then, you have to make a reasonable biblical argument that you should do it.
What do your taxes go to?
Is there a state tax?
All right, let's read it.
Do you see Planned Parenthood popping out?
Are you literally giving money to kill children?
Okay, let's just do some math here.
Can I live here?
Can I live here?
Those are questions that Christians should ask, real questions.
And I understand that, well, we're going to have to go to the moon.
All right, well, let's keep rooting for you on then.
I understand no matter where you live, you're going to be funding something that's vile.
But not all evils are equal.
I don't like paying property taxes for schools that I'm not even going to use, especially schools in the Austin area and surrounding that you walk in and it's just like you're swimming in a rainbow.
I don't like that.
But there is a lesser and greater of evils.
And the Christian can opt for supporting a public school that's progressive and liberal versus supporting health care that sucks babies out of their mothers with a vacuum.
Those are not equal.
Choosing Between Lesser Evils00:02:06
There is a sliding scale.
And we have a choice where we're going to raise our kids, where we're going to start a business, where we're going to pay our taxes.
We have a choice what church we're going to be a part of.
We have a choice what land we're going to buy and leave as an inheritance to our grandkids.
Right now, you have an opportunity to be thinking about not the five year plan, but the 500 year plan.
Where can I best set up my great, great, great grandchildren?
Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry, and from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you.
I cannot thank you enough.
However, some of you, you just can't afford it.
In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it.
Let's be honest.
I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy.
Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID.
We have written checks that we simply cannot cash.
It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession.
We are living in a recession right now, regardless.
Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store.
You cannot support financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
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