The Shock Absorber

After a short absence from the pod, Tim rejoins Joel to rejoice in young people learning about Jesus and how different music scenes have impacted culture. It leads to the question, could numerous grassroots Christian scenes have an effect on culture? For the action to be in the church, we cannot just copy culture, but it must costly to us.

00:00 Intro
01:05 Where's Tim been?
17:11 Music scenes
29:00 Pop culture has become an oligopoly
40:47 Hardship is what brings value
57:55 Copying culture = less effort
1:08:33 Committing to the action being in the church

DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE

Ben Pakula's music
Youthworks Square One
Tooth & Nail Records
MxPx
The O.C. Supertones
Limp Bizkit
Slipknot
The Darkness
Led Zeppelin
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, by Neil Postman
Metallica's latest tour
Rage Against the Machine

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Shock Absorber Email: joel@shockabsorber.com.au
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What is The Shock Absorber?

Thinking and doing church a little differently...