Why Are Christians So Uncomfortable with Public Discernment?

About this episode

The episode discusses the discomfort many Christians feel regarding public discernment and explores reasons for this phenomenon.

In today’s Christian culture, it often feels like the biggest offense isn’t unbiblical teaching—it’s pointing it out. But if the New Testament is clear that Christians are to divide truth from error, why are so many Christians uncomfortable with public discernment? Today I offer 10 reasons why, using backlash to my recent Unshaken Faith episode with Alisa Childers and Melissa Dougherty as a case study. In that episode, we reviewed the New York Times bestselling book Practicing the Way by Joh...

People in this episode

Host: Natasha Crain

Guests: Alisa Childers, Melissa Dougherty

Topics covered

• public discernment
• Christian culture
• truth and error
• backlash
• biblical teaching

Keywords

• public discernment
• Christian culture
• truth
• error
• backlash
• biblical teaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times

Books & works: Practicing the Way

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