{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.15 / What is God actually holding you responsible for?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2104,"description":"Can politics fix what's wrong with America? We don't think so. The problems we keep arguing about are problems of the human heart, and a policy change can't reach that far.\nThere's a meme we passed back and forth: a grizzly bear goes looking for the source of his problems, walks up to a mirror and starts attacking it. That's most of us. It's a lot easier to see the threat of somebody else than the threat of our own actions.\nMy co-host Nick Surface and I look underneath the culture wars and ask the question that's actually ours to answer: what does God hold me responsible for?\nCan politics fix the country?\nI disagree on the fix being a political fix. When individual families, men and women decide to live virtuously, the country goes in that direction.\nWhat is God holding me responsible for?\nFixing what's happening in the world is ultimately God's responsibility. My responsibility is me: my marriage, my children, living the truth I claim to believe. Nick calls it the enemy within.\nHow do you change someone's mind?\nThe goodness of God leads people to repentance (Romans 2:4). The Greek word is μετάνοια (metanoia). It means to change your thinking. You can't argue people into transformation. You can love them into it.\nSo what's the cure?\nGod loves us in spite of ourselves, and He invites us into a life of transformation. What we have in culture now is a product of what we've sown for generations. If we want the future to look better, we have to start sowing different.\nScriptures\nJeremiah 17:9 · Romans 2:4 · Mark 10:45 · Matthew 22:39 · Genesis 3:6 · Deuteronomy 6:7 · Luke 6:27-28 · Matthew 9:36\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:52 Rural luxury living and why we need each other\n2:26 Echo chambers and tribalism\n4:05 Far left, far right and nobody in the middle\n5:24 Would you say it that way to someone you love?\n6:52 The goodness of God leads to repentance (Romans 2:4)\n7:53 It's easier to see someone else's threat than your own\n9:59 The grizzly bear and the mirror...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}