On this week’s episode, Seth Brown, N.C. Baptist director of convention relations, discusses cultural and legal challenges and opportunities facing churches with Daniel Rose, N.C. Baptists’ student ministries strategist, and Harrison Smith with Alliance Defending Freedom.

On this week’s episode, Seth Brown, N.C. Baptist director of convention relations, discusses cultural and legal challenges and opportunities facing churches with Daniel Rose, N.C. Baptists’ student ministries strategist, and Harrison Smith with Alliance Defending Freedom.

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Podcast Highlights:

  • “Two questions that I see parents asking specifically as far as safety is — who is disciplining my kid, and what are you teaching them?” (8:24)
  • “For us as children ministers or student ministers, youth leaders, we have to do the work of relational investment into students. Because the reality is we all have students who are dealing with these gender issues, these safety issues, all a bunch of other questions. But unless you have the relational trust with your students and your parents, they’re gonna keep up this facade and not actually let you into the discipleship of these real issues that they’re struggling with.” (10:30)
  • “Those policies, those documents tell the court and the community here’s who we are, what we do, how we do it, and why we do it. And in those documents you need to address all the issues of the day — marriage, gender, sexuality, family, life — so there’s no questions on where do we stand of these things.”  (26:03)
  • Visit ncbaptist.org/youth to connect with N.C. Baptists’ student ministries strategists. 
  • To access practical legal help for churches so you can freely live and preach the gospel, sign up for the Alliance Defending Freedom Church Alliance partnership:
  • Watch this video as Todd Unzicker shares additional information about the on mission together partnership between N.C. Baptists and Alliance Defending Freedom.

by N.C. Baptist Communications