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In this episode of Wake Up, Look Up, Pastor Zach examines the recent Supreme Court ruling on transgender athletes and discusses what it means for Christians engaging today's cultural conversations. He explores why speaking God's truth should always be paired with love, emphasizing that biblical truth is not discriminatory but life-giving. Pastor Zach encourages believers to communicate truth with both conviction and compassion, trusting that God's truth has the power to resonate with hearts and set people free.
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Check out new episodes of our daily podcast, Wake Up, Look Up, with Zach Weihrauch as he interprets what's happening in our world through the lens of the gospel.
Hello everyone, and thanks for listening to Wake Up, Look Up, a podcast where we connect events happening in real time to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm Zach Weihrauch, and in today's episode, we're asking the question, can truth be discriminatory? This is based on an article I read in the Wall Street Journal by Louise Radnivitsky, who wrote how the tide turned against transgender athletes. The article is focusing on the recent Supreme Court decision, a, 6:3 vote to uphold laws in states like West Virginia, Idaho, and 25 others, limiting the participation of transgender girls in girls' sports. In other words, limiting boys who are born biologically male who identify as female from competing athletically against biological females. boy, you have to do a lot of gymnastics to keep up with that conversation. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the prevailing opinion, and he wrote that the Supreme Court feels no need to create individual exceptions or exemptions because that would result in kind of endless and bitter disputes that he said would undermine women's sports. Now, this is part of a rising trend. You know, two or three young years ago, it felt as though the transgender movement was skyrocketing, that the future was full of men pretending to be women, women pretending to be men. But culture has shifted, particularly in the arena of athletics. That's because, people got tired of watching full grown men competing against women, let let alone the fact that it is inherently, unfair and not equal. But women were actually being displaced, biological women losing their place in sports, the way Title IX and other laws had sought to keep from happening, going all the way back to the 70s. Even international sports governing bodies have adopted stricter standards, with track and swimming federations, world boxing federations, even the Olympic Committee saying, hey, we've gotta draw some hard lines. Now, of course, critics are saying, this is a regression. For, in fact, the ACLU has said that we are moving backwards as a society. And that's maybe the issue I want to take aim at, because for the last four or five years, what we've been told is to say that men are men and women are women is phobic. Now, that is the attachment that the secular left loves to apply to us as relates to anything. If you say heterosexuality is the only acceptable form of, of sexuality, you're homophobic. If you say a man is born, a man is a man, you're transphobic. And so organizations like the ACLU see this as regression away from the enlightened view that men can be women, women can be men, we can Be whatever we want, sleep with whoever we want, do whatever we want. But this is what I want Christians to hear. it's a short term gain. I don't know where this movement is going. but I want you to hear that truth is not discriminatory. Telling a man who is born a man that he is a man is not unloving, it's not unkind, it's not regressive, and it's not phobic. It's the truth. And the truth, as Jesus said, sets people free. Paul writes this in Ephesians 4:15. He says, rather, listen, speaking the truth in love. Of course, that combination matters. Christians can never go around being a jerk. And then when we're rejected for being jerks, blame the truth. Oh, they just don't like us because we tell the truth. No, sometimes we package the truth in unloving, unkind, and unhelpful ways. Paul warns us against that in Ephesians 4. You know, Jesus, who is the ultimate truth teller, didn't go around doing that. He didn't go around rubbing people's faces in it. But he also didn't shrink back from speaking the truth. And neither should we. Because I think what this story is showing is that the truth of God is in all of us. Meaning that there's a conscience level in which the greater society knows a man is a man and a woman is a woman. No matter what is coming out of academia or Hollywood or kind of the far left fringe. the problem is when all they're hearing from people is what's not true, they'll just start to think that's the dominant opinion. But when we begin to speak truth, no matter what we're called, no matter what we're labeled, what we'll find is it'll resonate with people. It will actually click with people that, hey, this, does seem right. I mean, I'll tell you a quick story that reinforces this. there was a time where I was preaching maybe a year and a half ago, and I actually said in the sermon, what I thought was kind of a throwaway line. I said, hey, I know we live in a culture where you can decide that you're a frog, and I'm supposed to pretend that you're a frog, but of course you're not a frog. Well, that could be, I guess, offensive to a certain kind of person. my wife, unbeknownst to me, had actually invited someone from our neighborhood who came that weekend. And she said she cringed when I said that, worried that I would have offended that neighbor. when she ran into the neighbor in the atrium, she was kind of bracing when she said, what did you think? You know what my neighbor said? She said, I love the part where he talked about, you can't just say you're a frog. And this is what she said. I've been waiting for someone to say something like that. folks, as Christians, we speak the truth. Not our truth, not our political truth, not our cultural truth, but God's truth. And the truth is not hateful and it's not discriminatory and it's not regressive and it's not bad for people. And sometimes if we speak the truth enough, winsomely enough, the truth can win. And that is what I think is happening in this story. Hey, thanks for checking out Wake Up, Look Up. 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