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Andy Stanley: The Circle-Drawing Snake (Ep. 512)

October 12, 2023 1h 22m Full transcript available
Andy Stanley: The Circle-Drawing Snake (Ep. 512)
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In this episode, Kyle Thompson confronts the troubling actions and statements of Andy Stanley, particularly regarding his recent unconditional conference that promotes LGBTQ+ acceptance within the church. Kyle emphasizes the importance of biblical truth and calls out the deceptive practices that undermine the gospel.
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0:00 This is Undaunted Life Man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:27 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the
0:32 woman, did God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden? That is Genesis 3.1. Keep
0:37 that in mind as we go through today. Show guys, I'm so thankful that you are here today. And if you
0:42 hear just right from the jump here, if you hear any birds chirping or you know cars driving by or
0:47 something like that, it's not just because I'm in an especially good mood, it's because this is one
0:50 of like the four days in Oklahoma where it is beautiful enough to have the windows open because
0:56 it's either too blazing hot and humid or it's way too cold and windy. So if you hear that in the
1:01 background, sorry, it's going to be a little bit of a distraction, but maybe it'll be a polite
1:05 distraction. Just also wanted to give a quick shout out to our donors. Thank you so much to all
1:08 of our donors for supporting the show. And a few announcements here from the beginning. Here's one.
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2:01 this and you want one, go to our shop and check that out on our website. Also, I have an update on
2:06 the knife raffle. So I think I announced the knife raffle a couple of weeks ago. But guys,
2:10 don't skip this part, even if you heard about the knife raffle last time, because there's a very
2:14 interesting update to this that I'll give you at the very, very end. So for those of you that had
2:19 not heard of this, our friends at Stevenson knives out of Florida, they have graciously donated this
2:23 amazing custom knife. I mean, look at this thing. And it'll go to one special supporter
2:30 of undaunted dot life. So just to give you a little bit of the background, Blaine and Sean
2:34 Stevenson wanted to help raise money for undaunted life. So they donated a knife for us raffle off.
2:38 But then we decided collectively that we wanted to split that money. And so 50% is going to go
2:42 to our operations here. But then we decided the other 50% is going to go to the rescue team of
2:47 the Tim Tebow Foundation. If you haven't heard me talk about the rescue team before, that is the
2:52 arm of the Tim Tebow Foundation that does anti human trafficking and child exploitation. So there's
2:57 some key things that they do they help prevent these things from happening to begin with. They
3:01 help actively rescue children and others that are stuck in child or in sex trafficking or just
3:05 trafficking of any kind. But then they also do survivor care. Because once you're taking out
3:10 these situations, the amount of physical and spiritual and mental and emotional and social
3:15 support you're going to need is all there. So they currently have operations in about 30 countries.
3:20 This includes five safe homes that they're operating and they're partnering in about 13
3:25 more and 15 additional homes that they're about to get into. And the thing about it is this money
3:30 that we're raising and that we're going to donate goes directly to their operations and directly to
3:35 helping kids get out. We're not paying people's salaries. We're not paying for pizza parties.
3:39 We're not paying for, you know, private jet flights. This is going directly to operations to get
3:43 kids out. And we have this big hairy audacious goal of raising $10,000 to where it could be split
3:49 between us and the Tim Tebow Foundation. We're not really close to that right now. Okay, so,
3:55 but I did want to give you a little bit more information on the knife and then, you know,
3:58 we'll get to this, you know, the raffle and then the special announcement. So this is the Stevenson
4:02 Knives Hunter number two. So the blade, if you can see that there, this is a twisted pattern. So this
4:07 is 1084. And then also a 15 in 20 Damascus over pure nickel with a 52 100 carbon steel core. So if
4:16 you're a knife guy or if you're a metallurgist or something like that, that's going to make a lot
4:19 of sense to you. The handle is beautiful. It's amber dyed camelbone. It's got a black G 10
4:24 liner and mosaic pins. The tang is tapered. The sheath. This thing is amazing. This is a handmade
4:30 top grade Herman Oak leather sheath. This knife that I'm holding right here typically retails
4:36 for $450. But it's going to go to somebody that has a may pay way less than that. But this is how
4:43 the raffle works. Any person that donates $25 through our donation website between now and
4:49 October the 23rd, this ends on October the 23rd and puts the word knife in the comments section.
4:55 That's very, very important. They will automatically have their name entered into a randomized drawing
4:59 for the knife. Every $25 that you donate equals one spot in the raffle. So if you donate a hundred
5:04 bucks, you go in the randomizer four times. If you donate a thousand bucks more on that here in a
5:08 second, you will go in the randomizer 40 times so on and so forth. So and also all the current
5:13 donors to undaunted life, the ones that I thanked right from the top regardless of how much or how
5:17 long you've been donating, we are going to put your name in the randomizer twice just as a thank you.
5:22 But obviously current donors can also make additional donations to have their name in the raffle more.
5:26 And then we're going to take a video of us doing the randomizer post out on Instagram and we're
5:30 going to announce the winner on our show on October the 26th. So most of you've already known that.
5:34 But here is a big offer directly from Sean and Blaine Stevenson. Okay. So they were texting me
5:40 a couple of weeks ago. They're like, Hey, how's how's it going? And it's like, yeah, you know,
5:43 we're not getting as much traction this time. We know there's a lot of people out there that
5:45 are hurting financially and all that. And so they said, you know what, we are so just tickled to death
5:52 that people are donating money to you and to the Tim Tebow Foundation just for the chance of getting
5:58 one of our knives that they decided to do this. The first five people to donate $1,000 or more
6:06 to this raffle, they are going to get a Stevenson knife regardless of the raffle. Okay. And they're
6:13 still going to be in the raffle. Okay. So again, the first five people that donate $1,000 or more
6:20 are going to get a Stevenson knife and you can work with them on which one you want. They've got a
6:25 lot of different options. It's an amazing thing. Their knives, you know, three, four, $500 knives,
6:29 these are amazing knives. So if you donate $1,000 or more, you're guaranteed to get at least one knife.
6:35 But then beyond that, you could win this knife, this second knife. Okay.
6:40 So this does include people that have already donated. So if you've donated a hundred bucks
6:44 and you're like, well, I want to go ahead and get one of these. If you donate 900 bucks or more,
6:49 you're automatically, if you're one of the first five, you're going to get a Stevenson knife and
6:53 still be in the raffle. If you've donated 500 bucks, you can donate another 500 bucks and then you will
6:58 be guaranteed to get one knife and then you will have a higher chance of winning a second knife. So
7:03 guys, that is the information we're so glad for Sean and Blaine Stevenson to be able to make that
7:08 offer to our audience because they know that this money is going to a great cause. So to support
7:12 us on the rescue team, make sure you go to our show notes and go to our donation page. So on the
7:17 quick hitters for today's episode, we're going to talk about Trevor Bauer having his professional
7:22 baseball career destroyed by a conniving manipulative gold digging whore. Yeah, sorry, it's rough,
7:28 but we're going to get into it. Also, Paw Patrol featuring a non binary character.
7:32 President Biden's egregious tweet about thoughts and prayers. RFK Jr. indicating that he plans to
7:38 launch an independent bid for the 2024 presidential election. California Governor Gavin Newsom surprising
7:44 his surprising veto of AB 957. And then also famous tattoo artist Kat Von D renouncing witchcraft
7:52 and accepting Christ. Before we get there, I do need to flow in a few situations because I wrote
7:58 this episode most of the content last week. But since then there's been three things that I didn't
8:05 want to, you know, take out of the quick hitters or to do a completely different episode because I
8:09 want to make sure we get into the Andy Stanley stuff. But obviously I need to make a few quick
8:12 comments. The situation right now in Israel. So obviously Israel was attacked by a terrorist
8:18 organization Hamas. As of right now, there's too much information coming out to really know
8:23 what's true. So I'm going to let the dust settle a little bit before I make full on comments about
8:27 it. But we're looking at as of this morning, I'm recording this Monday morning. So it's coming
8:31 out a few days later, the death toll is close to 1000. It could certainly go well beyond that.
8:36 A bunch of people have been injured and kidnapped. And we've seen Iran. They have claimed that they
8:43 helped fund this. And if you remember, just a few weeks ago, the Biden administration released $6
8:48 billion of funds to Iran. And then the Iranians were like, yeah, we're just going to use this for
8:54 whatever we want. Whereas the Biden administration's like, no, they're only going to use it for like,
8:58 you know, textbooks and, you know, Band-aids and Neosporin. And so obviously the Iranians,
9:03 the Iranians use part of the money that we sent to them to slaughter our supposed allies.
9:09 Okay, so it would be super awesome. If my tax dollars and your tax dollars weren't going to fund
9:14 terrorism, but we have the Biden administration in office. And then we also have a lot of people
9:18 coming out that are, they are not condemning what Hamas has done, but they're condemning Israel's
9:26 response. And I would tell you, just be aware of people that are not condemning terrorists that
9:32 are going around slaughtering people, beheading them, shooting them in the face on the street,
9:37 going door to door and pulling family members out and slaughtering them in front of each other,
9:42 raping women, and then parading them around for others to see. I saw a picture of a woman who is
9:46 badly beaten. And you can see her backside. She's wearing sweatpants. And the bottom of her sweat
9:51 pants, sorry, the where her bottom is, where her butt is, is bloody and dirty, because she had been
9:57 annually and vaginally raped repeatedly by these people that are so just so oppressed by the
10:03 Israelis that they were forced to do this barbarism, right? So beware of those people. And again,
10:08 that kind of gets into the moral equivalent. So this there is no moral equivalence between the
10:12 plight of the Palestinian people and the Israeli people right now. Now, certainly, are there
10:17 Palestinians that are not for Hamas? Yes, but we have to remember that Hamas, I'm not going to
10:22 get into a big history of, you know, the Gaza strip or anything like that, Hamas, these people
10:28 voted for Hamas to take over their area. So these people voted for them. And then they just stayed
10:35 in power. But to pretend like there's a moral equivalence is ridiculous. And just reminded me,
10:40 and a lot of people reminded me is like, gosh, at least we don't have mean tweets though, right?
10:44 Because when Trump was in office, no new wars. And, you know, people were quiet because they didn't
10:51 know what Trump was going to do. Now, son, all of a sudden, we have, you know, this, you know,
10:56 Roomba of a human being in the White House. And there's Russia invading Ukraine. You have the pull
11:03 out from Afghanistan, more on Afghanistan in a second. And then you have these attacks on Israel.
11:07 And then you have Joe Biden coming out and saying, Oh, no, we completely support and we
11:10 stand with Benjamin Netanyahu and the entire country of Israel and we're giving whatever they
11:14 need. Well, you also funded the people that are slaughtering them to the tune of $6 billion. So
11:21 excuse me if I don't believe you. Okay. So I completely stand with Israel. Obviously, if they do things
11:27 that are outside the norm of just warfare, I don't support that. But just in general, I do support
11:33 Israel. And I think that we should all be praying for the people of Israel, but also be praying for
11:37 the non-teroristic Palestinians who are stuck. Because maybe they didn't know that they were
11:43 electing a terrorist organization. Again, the non-teroristic non is islamist
11:48 sympathizers that are in Palestine because these are people that, you know, the money that is being
11:53 sent to them should be used for aid to improve their lives, but it's not being used for terrorism.
11:58 But then also within 24 hours of that, over 2000 people perished because of an earthquake in
12:04 Afghanistan. And Afghanistan is currently being ran by the Taliban because of the United States.
12:09 We basically handed over the government back to these, you know, islamist,
12:15 terroristic leaders. And so you can't imagine that the people that have been damaged by this and
12:21 the people that have lost people and the people that need aid are going to get that because that
12:24 country as well as being ran by terrorists. But then on a slightly different note, I need to talk
12:29 a little bit about Tim Ballard. So as you know, I had Tim Ballard on the show episode 477. He
12:34 is the center point of the movie sound of freedom. And we talked about that. There are some things
12:39 that are very likely going to break. I don't know when Glenn Beck talked about it a little bit on
12:44 his show last week. But there are some allegations for some sexual assault and sexual impropriety
12:50 and potentially financial impropriety as well that are going to be coming out about Tim Ballard.
12:55 And so to the people that were asking me over the weekend, so are you going to delete your
12:58 episode with him? Are you going to renounce him? Are you going to do all those things?
13:01 But I still believe that we live in a country where you're innocent until proven guilty.
13:04 I can say from the stuff that I've seen, it looks like he might be guilty of some of the things he's
13:09 being accused of. But the answer is, is even if he's found completely guilty of everything,
13:14 of course, I'm not going to take down the episode. I was wary of interviewing Tim Ballard from the
13:18 beginning because I had heard some things from some people that knew him and knew how he operated
13:22 and said, you got to be careful with this guy all the way up to, hey, you can't talk to this guy,
13:25 it's going to be a disaster. But he has brought light and the movie has brought light to a very,
13:31 very horrific thing, child sex trafficking. And he's going to be probably an imperfect vessel for
13:37 something like this. But I'm just going to let the interview stand on its own two feet. I tried
13:41 to make the interview more about what he experienced as opposed to the organizations that he might
13:46 be using for his, you know, sexual and financial picky dillies. Okay, so if something breaks in the
13:52 Tim Ballard stuff, we will certainly talk more about that. But as of right now, I don't really
13:56 have much more to say because there's not much more to say about it. But before we get into the
14:00 main topic for today, I did want to just kind of bring this up. The financial status of most Americans
14:05 and most American families is not great. Okay, so there was a recent Gallup poll that said 88%
14:10 of non retired Americans are very worried about having enough money to retire 88%. In that same
14:16 poll, only 19% of non retired Americans even think they will have enough money to retire comfortably.
14:22 I mean, 19% that's terrible. The thing is, though, the reality is much worse than that,
14:27 because I've seen estimates that claim that roughly 95% of non retired Americans are currently
14:33 not on track to be able to retire. And that is only concerning savings and investments.
14:38 So that doesn't even account for people that are exposed to serious financial problems if they were
14:41 to get sick or hurt and wouldn't be able to work or God forbid they pass away without having a plan
14:46 in place to keep their family financially whole. So that's why I want to introduce you to my
14:50 personal friend and my financial advisor, Mike McCall with Bluecrest Financial. So Mike can help
14:56 you reach your chosen financial goals by helping you develop an overall plan to ensure that you
15:01 and your family's financial success is going to be possible. Okay, so this could be IRAs,
15:05 it could be stocks, it could be rollovers, life insurance, long term care, disability income,
15:10 that's the stuff that Mike can help you with. Okay, so just imagine the peace of mind that
15:15 comes with knowing that you are taking proactive steps or have taken proactive steps towards
15:20 financially securing you and your loved ones. Okay, think about the legacy that you could leave
15:24 behind. And that's, you know, something that really would reflect your conservative values
15:27 and the hard work you put in throughout your life. So I personally trust Mike McCall with
15:31 my financial planning. So I think that you should at least give him a shot. So to receive a free
15:35 personal and or business financial assessment, there is a link in the show notes where you can
15:40 book a 15 minute zoom call with Mike. Okay, so that link will be in the show notes.
15:44 Guys, do not try to piecemeal your own financial plan. Let an expert help you again go to the
15:48 link that is in the bio. There is a link in the bio where you can go and schedule your free
15:53 assessment with Mike. Okay, now we're about to get into it. Got to take a big drink of water here.
16:00 Andy freaking Stanley. Okay, I don't want this podcast to be the here's the latest thing that
16:08 Andy Stanley said that was so ridiculous and her reticle. But we do need to kind of keep this
16:14 thread going on something that's been happening. I just got to tell you personally, I'm pretty
16:18 frustrated because I had a plan for today's episode that I've been working on for a couple
16:23 of months. And I really wanted to talk about and it was going to be pretty valuable. And it was
16:26 going to kind of be a unique thing. And now I have to push that plan for at least, you know,
16:31 a month because I got some hunting trips coming up. So we're releasing a lot of interviews here
16:34 soon. So Andy Stanley's just dorking up my life. So I'm not a huge fan of that. But
16:39 if you are new to the show, which we have a lot of new listeners, I want to go ahead and bring
16:43 you up to speed. Okay. So I used to be a big Andy Stanley guy. I used to listen to his sermons all
16:48 the time for years. He came and spoke at my church. I was attending at the time life church way back
16:53 in the day. And I was like, this guy's really interesting, communicates well, and I just started
16:57 following him. But then he started saying some weird stuff. Like we should unhitch the Old Testament
17:03 from the New Testament. He started saying things are kind of pointing towards some kind of more
17:08 liberal ideologies. And he was kind of like moseying towards deconstruction seemingly is
17:13 where he's on path now. And so earlier this year, episode 423 of this podcast that I released,
17:18 I think in January, it's called Andy Stanley is a heretic. And so the big question that I asked
17:23 in that episode is, is it fair to call Andy Stanley a heretic? And so the definition
17:28 of heretic from the American heritage dictionary of the English language is quote specifically
17:33 in theology, a profess believer who adopts and persistently maintains religious opinions
17:39 contrary to the accepted standards of his church. Unquote. So by that definition,
17:43 because of what Andy Stanley has said in public about LGBTQ identifying people, yes, you can
17:50 absolutely categorize Andy Stanley as a heretic. Okay. Then we had episode 499, a few weeks ago,
17:57 called update, Andy Stanley is still a heretic. And the reason why we did an update episode
18:02 is because that was about the unconditional conference. Okay. So the unconditional conference,
18:06 you probably heard about it. This was targeted at church staff and parents of supposedly LGBTQ plus
18:12 identifying children. Okay. The speakers that were going to be there were certainly Andy Stanley,
18:17 a bunch of LGBTQ affirming individuals, but also specifically two guys that are supposedly
18:24 Christians that are also married to men. I say marriage with, you know, big scare quotes there
18:29 married to men. So these are people that are not hiding from their LGBTQ identity. These are not
18:34 people that are like, Oh, you know, I'm trying to see what I can do for the sake of Christ. These
18:38 are people that are just actively going out of their way to, you know, do this type of thing.
18:43 And unfortunately, I got, I'm going to have to like literally take a break because I got to close
18:47 my window because I can literally hear people working on a lawn. So one second, we're doing it live.
18:51 I could have edited that out, but hey, we're running a, we're running our own thing here. And
19:04 then we got the dog me barking downstairs. Okay. So let's get out of the chaos. Let's get back to
19:09 what we were talking about. So I do the episode for 99 before this conference even happened.
19:15 And so it's kind of weird. It's like, how are you so fired up about a conference that hasn't happened
19:18 yet? Well, I also did episode 502 of this podcast called How often do you think about the Roman
19:24 Empire? And the first quick hitter was about Al Moller calling Andy Stanley out by name.
19:30 And this was also before the conference had even happened. Okay. So he wrote an article for world.
19:35 But since then the conference has happened. Here we are in October. The conference took place on
19:40 September the 28th and 29th. So after the conference was over, I was actually expecting to see a bunch
19:46 of clips floating around the internet showing, you know, ridiculously heretical left wing woke
19:52 rhetoric from the speakers at the conference. But I didn't see any. I didn't see anything.
19:58 After the conference was over, I was expecting to see a bunch of blogs from, you know, conservative
20:02 Christian outlets and bloggers and podcasters discussing just the horrific stuff that was said
20:08 at the conference. But I didn't see any of that either. Actually, the very first thing that I saw
20:12 about the conference after it happened was an article by church leaders.com with this headline.
20:17 Andy Stanley affirms traditional view of marriage following controversial unconditional conference.
20:26 And my initial reaction was just slack jawed shock. Wait, wait, Andy Stanley affirmed traditional
20:33 marriage. Looks like I'm gonna have to eat a bunch of crow, right? But then I started to read the
20:38 article. It started out by saying that on the Sunday following the unconditional conference,
20:43 which again was held at his church, North Point Community Church, that Andy Stanley took a break
20:47 from his normal sermon series to do a one off message directly responding to the public criticism
20:53 of him and North Point regarding the unconditional conference and more specifically to the public
20:57 criticism levied by almolar. Okay, he said that he wanted to address the misinformation that he
21:03 called it floating around about the purpose of the conference. But there was one article or,
21:07 sorry, one sentence from the article that really caught my eye. It was in the second paragraph.
21:13 And it said this quote, prior to Sunday's worship service, the pastor sent out an announcement
21:18 explaining that he would be addressing why the church hosted the unconditional conference
21:22 on Thursday and Friday, and that there wouldn't be a live stream of the service this week.
21:27 That's weird. Kind of begs the question, why in the world would Andy Stanley not live stream this
21:34 message? I mean, in his own words, in the announcement to the members of North Point, he said,
21:40 a great deal of misinformation is circulated regarding the purpose of the conference.
21:44 And I do not want you to be misinformed. That's a direct quote from him. So why would he not want
21:49 the greater North Point community and Christian community to hear what he has to say? We'll
21:54 certainly get more into that a little bit later. But then the website protestia, that's P-R-O-T-E-S-T-I-A
22:01 protestia acquired and released the audio from the sermon, this hidden sermon that Andy Stanley,
22:06 you know, was hiding from the rest of the world. Now, I'm going to provide a link in the show notes
22:11 to this audio so you can go listen for yourself. It's not super high quality, but you can clearly
22:17 understand the words he's saying. I was not able to rip the audio to include it in the show today.
22:22 That's probably a good thing because I have a sneaking suspicion that there are some staff
22:25 members at North Point that are listening to my show and waiting for me to slip up so I don't
22:29 have express written permission to use large chunks of the audio in my show. So I'm actually
22:33 going to read for you from the transcript of the sermon. So there is a lot of interesting stuff
22:38 from the sermon, but I want to focus in on the main part, which is where he supposedly clarifies
22:44 North Point's position on what he calls the New Testament sexual ethic, which is weird because he
22:50 could have just said biblical sexual ethic, but I think he's specifically focusing on the New Testament
22:54 for a purpose. So we're going to dig in here. It's a long excerpt. So go ahead and buckle up.
22:59 This is essentially one narrative. So I'm leaving off, you know, half sentences and kind of verbal
23:04 mess up so that it flows a little better while I'm reading it, but I'm not going to remove a single
23:08 word of relevant context. This is Andy Stanley talking during his sermon in front of North Point
23:13 Community Church after the unconditional conference on Sunday, October the 1st. Okay.
23:18 What do we believe? What does our church believe? In churches, our size, you can find
23:23 individuals who believe just about anything, everything, and nothing. The better question,
23:27 perhaps, is the question, what do we teach? What do we teach your children, your grandchildren?
23:33 What do we teach about these issues? And it's the same thing we have taught for 28 years.
23:38 Nothing has changed. As it relates to sexuality, here's what we teach. And hopefully you notice,
23:43 I feel like you've been coming for a while there. There should be no question about this,
23:47 but I don't mind just putting it out there. We teach what I refer to as a New Testament
23:52 sexual ethic. So from middle school to high school, to college, to singles, to marriage,
23:57 to single again, every age and stage of life, this is what we teach. Whether a student is
24:01 straight or gay or questioning, this is what we say. Hey, if you're going to follow Jesus while
24:06 you're figuring this out, if you're going to follow Jesus as you struggle with your identity,
24:10 or some of the things that you're feeling, if you're going to follow Jesus, here's what
24:14 it looks like sexually to follow Jesus. And the reason your heavenly fathers called you to live
24:19 this way is because he loves you. Here it is. It's just three statements. Number one,
24:23 honor God with your body. Because the Holy Spirit lives in you and your body is how people know
24:29 what you believe and where you stand and your behavior through your body is to exemplify the
24:33 goodness of God and the grace of God and the love of God. So you always honor God with your body
24:39 and you always honor other people's bodies. Number two, don't be mastered by anything,
24:44 not by porn, by sexual addiction, don't be mastered by another person, don't be mastered by your
24:49 infatuation, don't be mastered by your lust, don't be mastered by anything. You have a master and
24:55 he's a king and he loves you and he created you and he knows what's best for you. And number three,
25:00 the old fashioned one, don't sexualize a relationship outside of marriage. That is so old fashioned,
25:06 no sex before marriage. If you're not married, I mean, who even teaches that anymore? Always have,
25:12 always will. And I've asked, you know, people in the crowds, this question, I've asked many people,
25:17 dozens of people, this question, Hey, has sex outside of marriage made your life better or has
25:22 it made it more complicated? Has sex outside of marriage made the person you had sex with?
25:27 Did it make their life better or did it make their life more complicated? And honest people say,
25:32 yeah, it's creating some complications. Well, then what do you expect your heavenly father
25:37 to say who loves you and who loves the person whose life you may have set back? What do you think
25:42 their heavenly father is going to say about sexual activity? When oftentimes our sex outside of
25:47 marriage makes you a liar for life, because you're never going to tell the truth about your past,
25:52 because you're too ashamed. What did you expect? So this message is the same for everybody. Sex is
25:58 for married people regarding marriage. And this feels weird, even saying this, just make sure
26:03 everybody knows where we are. We talk about marriage or we talk about and teach about marriage the
26:09 same way Jesus and the apostles did every instruction in the Bible regarding marriage references or
26:14 assumes a husband and a wife, a man or a woman. So biblical marriage, biblical marriage is between
26:20 a man and a woman. We've never shied away from that. We don't change the words in order not to
26:25 offend people. Now here's what may surprise all of us straight people. Gay attenders in our church,
26:31 they aren't shocked by, they aren't shocked that we talked that way. They aren't shocked by that.
26:36 They expect that. They grew up on that. They hoped for that. They prayed for that.
26:41 They pray that God would change them so they can experience that. I sat in small groups of gay men,
26:46 35 and up to 65. Watch them weep because they don't have a family. They couldn't have a family.
26:51 They prayed for that and God didn't answer their prayer and many are convinced that traditional
26:55 marriage is not an option for them. So they commit to living a chaste life. And for many men and women
27:01 who put their faith in Christ, they just decide, okay, I'm just going to buckle down. I'm just
27:06 going to bear down. I'm just going to be by myself and I'm not going to have family. I'm going to be
27:11 sexually pure and many, many, many, many do that for long seasons of life. And for some, it's their
27:18 whole life. But for many, that is not sustainable. So they choose a same sex marriage, not because
27:25 they're convinced it's biblical. They read the Bible the same we do. They choose to marry for the
27:30 same reason many of us do love, companionship and family. And in the end, as was the case for all of
27:37 us, this is the important thing I want you to hear me say, it's their decision. Our decision is to
27:43 decide how we respond to their decision. Our decision as a group of local churches is how
27:48 are we going to respond to their decision? And we decided 28 years ago, we draw circles. We don't
27:55 draw lines. We draw big circles. If someone desires to follow Jesus, regardless of their starting
28:01 point, regardless of their past, regardless of their current circumstances, our message has been
28:07 come and see and come and sit with me. And this is not new. This is who we are. And we've always
28:12 been. And this is why I love our church. And this is why I'm so extraordinarily proud of you.
28:18 We aren't condoning sin. We are restoring relationships. And we are literally saving lives.
28:24 So that's just an excerpt from the sermon that he delivered on October 1. So here's my initial
28:30 reaction before we dig in a little bit further. You can again go listen to it for yourself reaction
28:34 one. Much of this that I just read to you is what you would expect to hear at least content-wise
28:41 from a conservative evangelical pastor, right? I mean, that sounds like pretty standard basic stuff,
28:48 right? But also you should notice how he never said what he believes about marriage and sexual
28:55 sin. It's always we believe this. We teach this. Some more on that in a second. Also notice how he
29:04 always frames, and he's done this for years now, LGBTQ plus actions as, you know, who these people
29:11 are, not the choices that they choose to make, because you could have a predisposition to homosexual
29:17 attraction and not do anything about it. Right? Also, notice how he just slips in that many who he
29:26 would categorize as gay Christians find staying chaste for life for the sake of Christ as he said,
29:32 not sustainable. Okay. So he's giving them an out for sin, essentially. But just imagine if he said
29:42 something like this, some white supremacists can live lives devoid of racist actions,
29:48 but for others, it's just not sustainable. Or some pedophiles can live lives devoid of raping
29:55 children, but for others, it's just not sustainable. Some abortionists can live lives devoid of
30:01 murdering innocent children, but for others, gosh darn it, it's just not sustainable. It's
30:06 where his pragmatism kind of smacks him in his face. And he mentioned several times during that
30:10 audio that Jesus didn't draw lines. He drew circles. So he in North Point Community Church
30:16 aren't going to draw lines, but instead circles. Now, what he's obviously ignoring, I say ignoring
30:23 because he clearly knows these things, but he's purposely not saying them. He's ignoring that
30:28 Jesus literally drew lines all the time, all the time. He drew circles and lines, but he certainly
30:35 drew lines between believers and unbelievers between the religiously self righteous and the
30:40 religiously humble, right? Also, how far do you think Andy is willing to take this, you know,
30:46 circles versus lines concept? I mean, I was I was talking with Ryan from The Forging Table,
30:53 and he kind of brought this up. And then some other people did, is he going to draw lines or
30:56 circles with white supremacists? He's going to draw lines or circles with pedophiles?
31:01 He's going to draw lines or circles with abortionists? Like, where exactly does it stop?
31:06 And if you listen to the entire sermon, you should come away thinking two things. Number one,
31:11 he is a master communicator. Like he is a that's why I was so attracted to what he was doing for so
31:18 long because his communication style is just incredible. But also you can come away thinking,
31:22 God, this guy's a self righteous prick. Like my goodness, like even how he ended that that little,
31:28 you know, snippet, we're literally saving lives. It's like goodness gracious. Can you
31:32 self aggrandize anymore? And again, these comments during his sermon while still being ridiculous,
31:38 they're not as severe as what many were fearing, right? Many who thought Andy was going to go,
31:43 you know, full deconstruction, you know, maybe even led you to believe that the conference wasn't
31:48 as bad as many thought it would be. So with that, let's bring protestia back to this.
31:53 Because the day after they released the audio of Andy's sermon, they released part one of an
32:00 expose on the unconditional conference. Now, they were able to write this expose because the guys
32:06 that run that website drove across the country so that they could actually attend the unconditional
32:11 conference in person. So as of the recording of this podcast, they've released two parts of the
32:16 expose and a couple of other articles about the conference. Now, I'm not going to go through all
32:19 the details. I'm just going to provide highlights. All that stuff will be in the show notes. You can
32:23 check it out for yourself. But part one of the expose, they report that there was a very, very
32:28 strong police presence inside and outside the event. Okay. Now, the funny thing about that is
32:35 because of the content of the this particular event, why in the world were they scared that
32:42 somebody would come in and try to like throw a fire bomb? Like that's what people that like
32:46 what they were saying. Those are not the people that that you should be worried about, you know,
32:51 picketing your event and disrupting your event. These people agree with you. So that was weird.
32:55 Also, they said that you had to do ID verification to get into the event. And I have been to a ton
33:01 of conferences and, you know, sales training things and all these things. I've never once
33:07 had to provide an ID to verify that. Yep, that's my name tag and I please have it now. It's not very
33:13 common, right? So this leads me to believe that they likely had a list of names of people that
33:18 they didn't want there. Okay. But let me read from the article here. Posters on the church walls
33:23 and displayed prominently on projector screens warned against recording any of this conference
33:28 citing Georgia law, which mandates fines and jail time. In conversation with conference
33:32 organizers and volunteers, they stressed that security officers were in plain clothes,
33:37 patrolling the halls and watching the events. In one session, a man was taking notes on his
33:42 laptop. And within minutes, a volunteer told him he needed to put it away because it could record
33:46 video or pick up audio. During our check in, we heard security saying, or security talking,
33:51 sharing their concerns about infiltrators and protesters. This is weird. Because again,
33:57 I've been to a lot of these types of events. I've never not been able to record audio.
34:02 Because I literally have a program on my iPad, where as I'm taking notes, I can record audio,
34:06 I can listen to the audio back and kind of know what notes I was taking at that time. And they
34:10 wanted none of that. None of that. That's odd. Obviously, this is something to be concerned about,
34:16 but we'll talk about it more later. But they also said in this article that they saw obviously
34:22 trans identifying people. So think, you know, dudes and dresses in attendance. And there were
34:26 lots of pride flags on clothing and keychains and journals and water bottles and stuff like that.
34:32 And I'll go back to the article here, which struck us more than anything. However,
34:35 is that throughout the conference, homosexuality as a standard moral and necessary theology,
34:40 theological good was assumed the entire time. Every talk, every breakout session, every conversation
34:47 we struck up with on our tape with our table mates, there was no hint or suggestion that
34:51 homosexuality was a sin that must be repented of, but rather a good that must be accepted.
34:58 The overwhelming message was that children and family members who come out as gay or trans must
35:02 be loved and supported. And that support includes affirming them for who they are in order to
35:07 retain influence and a relationship with them. There was no question of how do we love and
35:12 support our LGBTQ children while we still hold to our convictions. Instead, we were hammered
35:18 with the claim that if we want to be in relationship with them, we need to lay aside those convictions
35:23 and pick up more loving ones, ones that better reflected the heart of Jesus. All the speakers
35:28 referred to their trans children by their trans names and personal pronouns. One session saw a
35:33 panelist with a tear stained face insisting that children need gender affirming care. And another
35:39 said that she knew or suspected her child was transgender at the age of three. One session saw
35:45 a speaker explicitly arguing that homosexuality was not a sin, condemning the clobber verses by
35:50 saying that none of them are taught in a serious exegetical way. Andy Stanley himself noted that
35:55 the expression homosexuality as a sin makes no sense in light of children threatening to kill
36:01 themselves, which is a concept permeated throughout the event and presented as a binary choice.
36:06 If we don't affirm our LGBTQ kids, they will end their lives and we will lose them forever.
36:12 So a lot of the things there guys, you would expect to hear at a left wing political rally.
36:17 Not at a church conference, but let's go to part two of the expose. They were doing a panel discussion
36:23 of parents with trans identifying children. I say trans identifying because there's no such
36:27 thing as trans. Okay, there's x x and there's x y. Those are the only chromosomal, you know,
36:32 possibilities for people. You were either male or you are female. Okay, so let's go to the article
36:37 for part two of this expose. Oh, and by the way, before I say that, this is a panel that was led
36:43 by Debbie Causey. Okay, so she is a gay affirming pastor and director of North Point's Care Network.
36:49 So she's on the board of Ranovus, as well as I've talked about, that's an LGBTQ affirming activist
36:54 group that was formed by North Point pastors and leaders designed to normalize homosexuality
36:59 within the church. Okay, so she insisted that a child's decision during this little panel discussion
37:05 to take hormones is very misunderstood in the world right now. So this is this is Causey talking.
37:10 For many of us and for our kids who take hormones to feel like themselves, this is medically
37:15 necessary. This is life saving. And so many in the culture treat it like it's some flippant thing.
37:20 And also in the article, they talked about how she insisted that people need to come
37:24 to grips with the reality that medical intervention is necessary for a person's well-being and healing
37:30 and that gender affirmation care is a treatment for gender dysphoria. It's shockingly even said
37:34 gender dysphoria because obviously that leads to the fact that, hey, this is a medical issue
37:39 inside the mind, not the body, right? Well, which the body is in the mind is in the body. You get
37:43 it what I'm saying. This is a mental disorder, not a physical one. Also back to the article,
37:47 a major session theme was how the parents could gain influence and build stronger relationships.
37:53 One panelists said that using their child's new personal pronouns help them gain a foothold
37:58 in their life, while another said that it was as simple as really loving them for who they are
38:03 without trying to convert them with therapy or just preaching at them. Okay, so when you use your
38:09 kid's new personal chosen pronouns, you're choosing to lie. That's why I hate pronoun hospitality.
38:15 It's ridiculous. If someone's presenting as the opposite gender, whatever they say their name is
38:20 sure, call them that you can't call them by opposite pronouns, though. That's making you a liar
38:25 causing you to sin. And also this idea of really loving them as they are for who they are,
38:30 if that's true, then we don't have a need for a gospel. God did not need to send his son to die
38:36 in our place so that there could be perpetuation for our sins if God just loved us the way that we
38:40 are. Okay. And this idea that, you know, oh, we don't want to just preach at them. I mean, God,
38:45 forbid you did God forbid you preached at him. And then we get to the main event. This is Andy
38:51 Stanley speaking at the conference. So this again is according to reporting from Portestia.
38:56 He joined Debbie Causey for the second main session at the conference. Okay. So here's a few tidbits
39:01 that Andy gave. This is a quote from Andy Stanley here. Most of the negative feedback I get is from
39:06 traditional evangelical Christians because I don't say things the right way. And they read between
39:12 the lines. And that's okay. So he's taking a shot at what he would call traditional evangelical
39:17 Christians, you know, like people that read the Bible and think it's true like that kind of a thing.
39:21 But then also he speaks unclearly on purpose. So that that's an odd thing that he's doing this
39:28 on purpose. But hey, what can you expect with Andy Stanley? And back to the article here,
39:33 Causey asks him what he thinks about parents who feel like they have to choose between their theology
39:38 and their love for their kids. And Eddie responds, bad theology, he elaborates. And this is a quote,
39:43 if you're theology limits who you can minister to, then you definitely don't have the theology
39:48 of Jesus. I mean, egregious thing for him to say, let's go back to the article to people always
39:54 criticizing gay people and being judgmental towards them. This is a direct quote. One of these days,
39:59 you're going to love an LGBTQ plus person. And in that moment, you're going to change,
40:04 but you don't have to wait until then. Okay. So he's obviously pointing people in a particular
40:08 direction. He's trying to personalize it. And he's trying to, again, take it away from theology,
40:12 and then just hide behind this relationship thing. But then there was a very, very egregious
40:17 submission. And then this is according to the article here. Stanley says that he's had many
40:21 conversations with gay people that were all raised in church, says he's grateful for his
40:26 Southern Baptist heritage. But the whole category, the whole topic is just a forward response.
40:31 Homosexuality is a sin. Stanley says that sort of response, homosexuality is a sin works fine
40:37 until your child comes out to you. And suddenly it's irrelevant. And before long you realize this
40:42 sentence doesn't even make sense. That's a direct quote. He says the sentence,
40:46 homosexuality is a sin doesn't make sense, guys. Okay, back to the article. And this is a quote
40:52 from Andy. And I still get this constantly. Andy, yes or no, we had a television network kick off,
40:57 kick us off the air this year, just yes or no is homosexuality a sin. I'm not going to answer
41:04 that question. We have to have new language that creates the potential for a sane, realistic
41:09 dialogue regarding homosexuality, because until we can change the language, we can't have a
41:14 conversation. And this is when he was talking to parents at the conference who have gay children,
41:18 you had four words, homosexuality is a sin. That's your whole vocabulary. And when your
41:24 child comes out and you have no vocabulary to even have the conversation, he says, you have to throw
41:30 that away. Homosexuality is a sin, because it's irrelevant in that moment. So your kid comes out
41:37 as homosexual, homosexual. And to if you're a parent, guys, it's irrelevant to point that out.
41:42 Back to the article, Stanley condemns evangelical and conservative churches for saying that people
41:47 in the LGBTQ community are going to hell, arguing you should do a word study on a hell and realize
41:54 only Jesus uses it. And he doesn't mention any of this. Now that is horrifically stupid for a pastor
42:02 that apparently went to seminary because he knows better. He knows better. We don't have this new
42:08 revelation 2000 years later, because we did a word study on the word hell to think that, oh,
42:14 no one's really going to end up there. And being sexually immoral is not going to potentially send
42:18 you to hell. He knows that. But again, he's, he's being, you know, evasive back to the article
42:24 here as we wrap. In that context, he reveals, I've never talked about this. But the challenge is,
42:30 I can't make my personal thing, the church thing. He says that there is a built intention and that
42:36 molars article al molar and the conference and some other things that have brought it to a head
42:41 and maybe they're at a tipping point. He says he's no martyr and that he's not trying to be a hero,
42:46 but believes maybe he's here for such a time as this. So man, Andy Stanley loves him some Andy
42:54 Stanley. He's no martyr. He's not trying to be a hero. But gosh darn it, I think I was built for
42:59 a time like this. Now, there's more reporting from protestia concerning some of the other folks,
43:04 and I'll just kind of leave that in the show notes. But then during this time period, I was looking
43:09 at some of the work from Dr. Michael Brown. So Dr. Michael Brown, he's been going back and forth
43:14 personally with Andy Stanley on this very issue since 2015. Okay. So he asked Andy Stanley to
43:21 affirm these two statements and I'll include a, you know, one of Michael Brown's episodes where
43:26 he kind of details this in the show notes. But he wanted Andy Stanley to affirm these two statements.
43:30 Homosexual practice is always sinful in God's sight. And under no circumstances will God bless
43:37 a same sex relationship. Andy Stanley refused to respond to those statements. Again, the statements
43:43 homosexual practice is always sinful in God's sight. And under no circumstances will God bless
43:48 the same sex relationship. So the final response that Andy Stanley gave to Michael Brown when he was
43:54 talking about this was this and this is he said, basically, why don't you concentrate on what God's
43:58 burden you to do and let me concentrate on my calling? And then this, this is a direct quote
44:03 from Andy Stanley to Dr. Michael Brown. There are times when ministry preamps clarity.
44:08 Think about that. Andy Stanley said, there are times when ministry preamps clarity,
44:16 which shows you that Andy Stanley is purposefully communicating in a manipulative, evasive way about
44:24 the subject. Now, Dr. Brian, Dr. Brown rightfully called him to immediate repentance. And you want
44:29 to guess if Andy repented? Now again, I'll post the video so you can check it out for yourself.
44:33 Then I'll molar. He wrote a response to Andy Stanley's response to our molar. Okay, so again,
44:39 Bravo to Albert molar for coming out so boldly against Andy Stanley. Again, I wish more prominent
44:44 pastors and evangelicals would come out and directly call out the heresy within their midst.
44:48 I will provide that article in the show notes as well so you guys can check it out. But I want to
44:51 move on to some overall thoughts here. The first thought here is you don't try to hide audio again,
45:00 try to hide audio and video of the speeches that you're ashamed by. Like imagine me recording an
45:07 episode of this podcast and then hiding it, not wanting anyone to have access to it. You know what,
45:11 I'm just going to perform this podcast in front of a handful of people, but then not release it to
45:15 anybody because they didn't live stream the unconditional conference. They didn't even allow
45:20 that as an option. They didn't allow recording inside the unconditional conference. They didn't
45:24 live stream and he's Stanley's sermon responding to the controversy the Sunday after the conference,
45:29 which begs the question, why not? I mean, it's not like that conference was like behind a pay wall.
45:35 Like that's not a concern because yeah, typically if you can't attend the conference in person,
45:40 you can get a lowered rate to attend the conference virtually. But then, you know, if you attend it
45:45 virtually, you know, maybe guys can, you know, record their screen and then all the content's
45:49 going to be out there for the public to see. So they, I think they did that so that they could
45:53 have plausible deniability about what they actually said. And again, that's what they initially did.
45:58 The funny thing about that is you can actually find the video and the audio of that sermon that
46:03 Andy gave now. But it wasn't there initially. So some people were like, Oh, you know, they were
46:10 going to put it out. They were always going to put it out. But they put it out after the outcry
46:14 from the public wanting to see the message that Andy gave from the pulpit. Again, Protestia gave
46:19 us the audio, but then North Point releases it after several days of people being like,
46:22 why in the world are you hiding this? But they still haven't released into your video or the
46:26 audio from the unconditional conference. Another thought I have on this is if all else fails,
46:32 follow the money, follow the money. So Andy Stanley says that North Point hasn't changed at all
46:40 on their beliefs on this issue, but North Point is also the largest donor to the organization
46:47 embracing the journey, which is a nonprofit that is gay affirming and that they put on the
46:53 unconditional conference. So it's like, you say one thing with your mouth, but then you literally
46:58 fund your supposed enemies. Kind of reminds me of the United States government and what's currently
47:04 happening in Israel with Hamas funded by Iran. Also another thought on this is it is maddening
47:10 to see someone be so cock sure and wrong at the same time. Now, Andy Stanley, he's very sure of
47:18 himself. He's an arrogant guy. All those types of things. Well, I think you could also say
47:22 the same thing about me, if I'm being honest, because I come on here and I give you my fervent
47:27 opinions on a lot of different subject matters. And I don't really vacillate between black and
47:32 white. I don't hang out in the gray area. I'm pretty cock sure as well, right? But I'm open to
47:36 rebuke and correction. I've talked about that repeatedly on the show. If you don't like something
47:41 that I said because of the tone I said it in, I don't really care about your email complaining.
47:45 But if I say something that is factually inaccurate, it's incumbent upon you to point that out to me.
47:49 But here, this guy is being called to repentance. And it's being pointed out that the way he's
47:54 operating is not biblical and not beneficial to the flock. He doesn't care because he's Andy Stanley.
48:00 Another thought is you know what we're not hearing at all from Andy Stanley from his pulpit or any
48:08 of the speakers from this conference. We're not hearing that people that choose to sin
48:13 in a homosexual manner need to repent of their sins.
48:17 Also, we haven't been hearing that people that are struggling with their so-called gender identity
48:26 don't need to be blindly validated, but they need to be lovingly corrected. We don't we
48:33 don't see any of that. No calls to repentance and no calls for people to lovingly push back
48:38 on the sinful ideologies that have permeated the people that they are in relationship with.
48:42 Also, Andy Stanley refuses to be clear on this issue. I've said it over and over.
48:49 I mean, it wouldn't be hard for him to do so because again, he's a master communicator,
48:52 but he's refusing to. Maybe it's because he's a snake, which is obviously what I think he is
48:58 and more on that here in a second. But I also think he doesn't want the gravy train of his ministry
49:01 to end. I mean, the guy's worth eight figures. He's built one of the largest churches to ever
49:07 exist in the United States. He isn't with that gravy chain to run out. He knows that if he aligns
49:12 himself with culture, he'll always have a golden parachute. But this is why I'm calling this episode
49:19 Andy Stanley, the circle drawing snake, because Andy Stanley is a circle drawing snake.
49:25 So you have to ask yourself, what is a snake like? Well, a snake is deceptive.
49:30 Because apparently, Andy Stanley is communicating one thing as the position of his church
49:37 and refusing to communicate what his position is. It's not double speak. It's not splitting the
49:44 baby. He's being purposely deceptive. Also, what is a snake like? A snake is manipulative.
49:51 I've seen videos literally of snakes that are literally manipulating other animals to get them
49:55 within striking distance. He's manipulative because he's communicating one thing from the pulpit,
50:00 which is the same exact pulpit that just days before that was used by practicing homosexuals
50:09 and an array of LGBTQ plus affirming people to communicate the exact opposite message that he
50:16 espoused in front of his congregation. That is direct manipulation of your flock. What is a snake
50:25 like? A snake is also deadly. So he's drawing big old circles around people, right? He's telling
50:34 the world, people that are not being rebuked for their sin, but being affirmed in it. He's drawing
50:41 big circles around them. And they are being denied the call to repentance that comes from faith in
50:48 Christ, which provides eternal life. So you're drawing big circles around people and you're not
50:56 calling them to a true gospel. You're calling them to be affirmed in their sin and they will feel
51:04 no need to rely on Christ because they've been convinced by you that God's just going to love
51:10 them no matter what he loves them the way that they are. If he made you this way, why would he
51:13 want you to turn away from that? Maybe because his glory is more important than your feelings.
51:19 And Andy Stanley's job is to make sure that these people have faith in the gospel and repent from
51:25 their sins, but he's lost the thread. So to Andy Stanley, I see you. I see you for what you really
51:35 are. You are a snake. You are a false teacher. I call you to repentance. I will continue to call
51:44 you out for your heresy until you repent. And if you do not, I pray that God will remove your
51:50 ministry from you permanently, whichever way the he sees fit. All right, guys, before we
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53:23 All right. Big drink of water. Let's hit the first quick hitter here.
53:27 Trevor Bauer having his professional baseball career destroyed by a conniving manipulative
53:33 gold digging whore. Okay. So if you don't know what Trevor Bauer is, Trevor Bauer very recently
53:38 was one of the best pitchers in all of baseball. Okay. So this is a guy that was highly touted
53:43 coming out. I think it was UCLA. And then he had come to the major leagues. I think he was with
53:47 Cleveland and then he was with the Cincinnati Reds whenever he had his Cy Young season,
53:53 like his best season of his career in 2020. So after that season, he signed a nine figure deal
53:59 to go to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Okay. Los Angeles dollars, just, you know,
54:02 there's throwing money all over the place. But then in 2021, in his first year of his deal,
54:08 there was a story that came out of an alleged sexual assault committed by him.
54:13 Okay. Now, immediately MLB did the right thing and they put him on administrative leave. Okay.
54:20 Because administrative leave is not a suspension. Because I think it's okay, while the dust is
54:24 settling in the immediacy to be like, Hey, we need to be cautious here. Hey, we're not saying that
54:28 you actually did this, but we just need to get our ducks in a row here. So I'm okay with that.
54:33 But then he was suspended. Okay. There were no criminal. What's the best way to say this?
54:42 He had been charged with these crimes initially, but then there was no,
54:47 they didn't find him guilty. There was really not a whole lot of evidence to find him guilty,
54:53 but MLB suspended him anyway. Now remember, MLB is not a law enforcement body.
54:58 They're just their own organization. But then as they were doing their internal investigation,
55:02 the suspension for Trevor Bauer kept being extended and extended and extended.
55:08 And then MLB, again, not a law enforcement agency, they concluded their own internal
55:12 investigation into this matter. And they decided to suspend Trevor Bauer for two full seasons.
55:17 Okay. Which considering his age and where he was in his career is almost like a
55:21 dissonance for your career. Because what they said, it violated their domestic violence policy. So
55:27 they do their own investigation. Okay. This will look terrible here in a second. And they say that
55:31 Trevor Bauer violated the domestic violence policy. But there's a young man named Marcelo Zuna,
55:38 who's currently playing in the playoffs with the Atlanta Braves unless they get, you know,
55:41 swept before this podcast comes out. He got a 20 game suspension, 20 game suspension
55:48 for violating MLB's domestic violence policy. So not a two year suspension. So that's, you know,
55:53 like 300 and something games, a 20 game suspension. Now you might think to yourself,
55:58 what is the big difference between what supposedly Trevor Bauer did and what Marcelo Zuna did?
56:02 Trevor Bauer must have done something way, way worse. Well, in this case with Marcelo Zuna, police
56:08 officers actually witnessed Marcelo Zuna attacking his wife. They were there. He was beating her and
56:16 choking her when the police arrived. So perhaps an important note for those of you that don't know,
56:23 Trevor Bauer is a white guy that is expressed support for Trump. And Marcelo Zuna is a person
56:28 of color. Perhaps that's significant in this case, but I'll digress. But then a couple of weeks
56:33 ago, Trevor Bauer released a video of him talking to his phone. And this video was incredible.
56:40 Because he said, Hey, this was the first time in two years, I've been able to talk about this
56:46 issue. I've been under gag order during this legal process. And I'll put that video in the
56:51 show notes because it's very, very important for you to watch it. But he basically went
56:54 through the accusation that this woman made against him and said that she was, she was wrong.
56:59 They withheld discovery from him and his legal team that, you know, the woman tried to put a
57:05 restraining order on him, but it wasn't granted in California and how that's super rare,
57:11 how this girl took video of herself. Like the morning after he was, she had allegedly been
57:16 brutally beaten and battered by Trevor Bauer. And here she is just smiling into the camera,
57:20 no marks on her face, no marks on her neck, any of those types of things she seems to be enjoying
57:24 herself. But also text messages that she sent back and forth with her friends saying that she was
57:29 targeting Trevor Bauer because she knew that he was worth lots and lots and millions and millions
57:33 of dollars. And what she was going to do to kind of get her hooks in this guy. Okay. Now,
57:38 when it comes to this hashtag me to stuff, or, you know, claims of racism or police violence towards
57:45 people of color, all that kind of stuff, as I talked about from the top of the episode,
57:49 the presumption of innocence should be there, but it's currently non-existent.
57:52 So we live in a time where it's guilty until proven innocent, and even then we're just going
57:57 to pretend like they're actually guilty. So that's kind of what's happening with Trevor Bauer right
58:01 now, because this video is not being refuted by this woman or her legal team. They basically
58:07 came to an agreement where he sued her. She countersued him, but they came to an agreement that no money
58:13 would would pass from one party to the other, but that both of them had to drop their suits and
58:18 not have any future suits. Okay. So this is a terrible situation where Trevor Bauer was targeted
58:26 by this woman for destruction. And she almost got away with it. Now, Trevor Bauer, in terms
58:33 of what I think, I think that he should sue Major League Baseball. He should sue the Dodgers.
58:39 He should sue every so-called journalist and news outlet that defamed him without evidence,
58:44 because MLB gave him a two-year suspension based on bogus claims from this stupid skank.
58:49 The Los Angeles Dodgers just went along with it so they could get out of paying him the nine
58:54 figures that he was owed, right? Because MLB contracts are guaranteed. And all these journalists
58:59 that just ran with these things, there has to be an accountability for that. So I think Trevor
59:03 Bauer should really hammer that home. Also, I think that Trevor Bauer should be signed
59:08 by an MLB team in 2024. He's been playing in Japan the last couple of years, but he deserves
59:14 to be signed by some team in 2024. But that's very likely not going to happen.
59:18 You know, I kept thinking about Michael Vick during the situation after he served two years in
59:24 Leavenworth for the dog fighting stuff and the animal cruelty stuff. He was signed. I think,
59:28 well, what was it? The Eagles or the Steelers? It was one of those teams gave him a chance.
59:32 And all these people are like, Oh, that's crazy. He's a terrible awful person. Yeah. He also paid
59:36 his debt to society for the crime that he actually committed. But here's Trevor Bauer that actually
59:40 didn't commit a crime. There's probably not going to be an MLB team that's going to touch him.
59:43 If the Cardinals decide to sign him, yeah, great. That's great. Let's have him on here.
59:47 Also, a lot of people pointed this out, but this was immediately where my head went.
59:52 We need laws in this country for false accusers that would punish them. This woman
59:58 should absolutely receive the penalty that Trevor Bauer would have gotten if he had been found guilty
1:00:04 because she alleged that he brutally, anal, he raped her and choked her, right? Serious accusations,
1:00:13 as if he was a part of Hamas or something like that. So what is, what does that carry? You know,
1:00:19 decades long sentence. She should absolutely get the sentence that he would have gotten.
1:00:24 And before you're like, wait, there's no biblical grounds for that. There actually is in the book
1:00:28 of Esther. So chapters five and six. So this is Heyman. He actually devised this diabolical scheme
1:00:33 to get Mordecai hanged by making false accusations. But his false accusations were sniffed out.
1:00:38 Heyman was actually a hung interesting, interestingly, from the very gallows that he built in order
1:00:44 to hang Mordecai unjustly. So a lot to this story, but I'm going to go ahead and go to my big take
1:00:48 ways here. There's two of them. Number one, fellas listening to this. Please stop having sex with
1:00:55 [inaudible]. It may seem like a rough way to say it, but there's not another way that you could categorize,
1:01:01 categorize this woman, maybe a diabolical [inaudible]. How about that? Because here's the thing,
1:01:06 if a girl that you meet on, you know, some dating app or in a bar somewhere or a club,
1:01:12 if a girl tells you right after she meets you, that she wants you to bang her, hit her,
1:01:17 choke her, and put it in her butt. That's probably a human being that you need to make sure that
1:01:24 you never see nor talk to ever again. Some of you guys are into that kind of stuff,
1:01:29 but maybe this should give you a hint that there's some ulterior motives here. So stop doing that,
1:01:34 guys, which leads directly to my second big takeaway. Trevor Bauer is partially perhaps mostly
1:01:42 responsible for the situation. He chose to engage in a sexual relationship with this obvious crazy
1:01:51 person because maybe he's like, Oh, this girl's a freak and I want to get my rocks off. And this
1:01:57 is going to be a great situation. No big deal. This is on Trevor Bauer because if Trevor Bauer is
1:02:03 living a chase life, or if he was married to one woman and only having sex with that woman,
1:02:09 he's not in the situation at all. The moment you decide to violate God's design for sex and marriage,
1:02:16 like you should expect something like this to befall you. So there are men in this audience that
1:02:23 I know they're professional athletes or they're big time business people or all that. These women
1:02:26 are prowling around looking for men to devour. Why would you give them that idea? Or why would you
1:02:33 give them that opportunity rather? So I guess God's design for marriage has some merits now,
1:02:38 doesn't it? Don't have sex unless you're married and only have sex with your wife and you're going
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1:03:17 featuring a non binary character. So this is according to LGBTQ nation. A spin off of the mega popular
1:03:23 computer animated kid series Paw Patrol has introduced the franchise's first non binary
1:03:28 character. While the original Nickelodeon series centers on a team of search and rescue dogs,
1:03:33 Rubble and crew focuses on English Bulldog pup Rubble voiced now in the series by Luxe
1:03:38 and hand spiker who takes on a variety of construction projects. In a recent episode Rubble and his
1:03:43 crew meet River, a skateboarding photography obsessed kid who tasks them with building an
1:03:48 observatory so they can photograph a shooting star. Excuse me. As pink news notes, the episode,
1:03:55 the crew builds an observatory never explicitly addresses River's gender identity or their pronouns.
1:04:01 Excuse me. However, following its August 21st US premiere, the episode's writer Lynn's Amr
1:04:08 made it clear that River is the Paw Patrol universe's first ever non binary character.
1:04:15 An author, screenwriter, activist and performer, Amr is a creator and co-founder of queer kid stuff,
1:04:21 a website that features kid friendly video series discussing LGBTQ plus topics as well as
1:04:26 resources for parents and educators. In a September 2nd Instagram post, Amr revealed that Rubble
1:04:32 and crew's producers brought them on to consult on the Paw Patrol franchise's first non binary
1:04:37 character and write the episode in which they were introduced. Talk about a bucket list item,
1:04:42 Amr wrote, "I wanted to create a non binary character that was as aspirational and incredibly
1:04:48 cool someone for the pups and the kids at home to look up to," they continued. So here's the thing
1:04:53 on a story like this, guys. They're just not hiding the ball anymore. They're not just coming for
1:05:00 your kid's attention anymore by creating really visually stimulating content. They're coming
1:05:04 for their moral codes. That's why they're doing this. They're subtly putting these messages in
1:05:11 and over time, as we're seeing now, they're losing all subtlety. So it's always, "Oh, we have two gay
1:05:17 dinosaurs that are looking after an egg. Oh, we have this non binary character. Oh, in Peppa the
1:05:22 pig, two of the moms from the house that the stupid pig's going over to, it's got two moms,
1:05:27 right? No dad." That kind of thing. So, and with something like this, it just kind of reminds me,
1:05:33 where are all the I want to be known for what I'm for, not what I'm against people? Where are they
1:05:37 at on this one? They're always so quiet. They're really, really loud when anyone that's a conservative
1:05:44 evangelical starts to say, "Yeah, these things are bad. We shouldn't do this. Oh, you shouldn't be
1:05:48 talking like this. You're being unnecessarily divisive." But on something like this, mom,
1:05:53 they got nothing to say. So my big takeaway on this, if you continue to support Paw Patrol,
1:06:00 so I'm talking directly to the dads here with little ones, if you continue to support the
1:06:05 Paw Patrol universe and/or rubble and crew by allowing your children to watch these shows and
1:06:11 buy the merch, you deserve the confusion from your children that will be a downstream consequence
1:06:18 of your lazy parenting. And listen, I get it. You want to be able to just, you know,
1:06:24 get a few things done, pay a few bills, take care of a few things in the garage so you just
1:06:28 set your kid down in front of the television. I get it. But you're putting them in front of
1:06:34 messages that are going to be contrary to the worldview that you're purporting and the environment
1:06:39 that you're wanting to raise them in. Why are you doing that? You should vet these shows before you
1:06:44 let your kids watch them, all of them. It's not going to take you that long. Like, and again,
1:06:49 you're putting them in front of two-year-olds, three-year-olds, you're putting them in front of
1:06:52 this content. It is a big deal. Some of you think, "Oh, well, you know, the kid was just wearing, you know,
1:06:58 the trans flag colored socks and, you know, he's non-binary. Kids don't even know what that means.
1:07:03 They're being molded by the culture. And if you let them consume this content, you're allowing it.
1:07:09 I don't feel bad for you if your kid comes out confused. This is your fault."
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1:07:44 absolutely egregious tweet about thoughts and prayers. So this was posted on the @POTUS
1:07:49 Twitter account. I'm not calling it X. The @POTUS Twitter account. This was at 7 a.m. on September
1:07:54 the 22nd of this year. Because thoughts and prayers are not enough, @VP and I just created the first
1:08:01 White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. So he could have said the second part. And I just
1:08:08 created the first White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Not that that's going to do
1:08:13 anything because there's nothing the federal government could actually do to change people's
1:08:17 hearts and their desire to kill other people. But it's obviously that first part because thoughts
1:08:22 and prayers are not enough. The Biden administration, aside from being just awful at everything,
1:08:29 they are trying to tell you, look, we're completely disregarding thoughts and prayers.
1:08:35 We don't need them. We don't want them. Why? Because we're the federal government.
1:08:41 We have all your tax dollars and we have the military. So we can do anything. Put your trust in us.
1:08:48 When I saw this, I thought it was a fake tweet, but it was obviously a real tweet. It was a real
1:08:56 post from President Biden. This is an atheistic. I wanted to say organization, which, you know,
1:09:02 the Biden crime family is an organization, but this is an atheistic administration.
1:09:06 They are belittling people that would pray because as I talked about, even in Sunday
1:09:12 school here recently, sometimes all you have is prayer. Like with my voice, I was like,
1:09:17 well, I saw the doctors and the surgeons and all that, but I was just kind of left after the rehab
1:09:21 and after all that different stuff to just pray. God, can you help me? The deed you want my voice
1:09:26 to be fixed? If so, let's get after it. So the big takeaway here on this one is actually just a
1:09:31 scripture Galatians six, seven do not be deceived. God is not mocked for for whatever one sows,
1:09:38 they will also reap. They're mocking God. They're mocking Christians. They're mocking prayer.
1:09:44 I don't think it's going to work out for them in the end. All right. Next quick hitter here,
1:09:47 RFK Jr, indicating that he plans to launch an independent bid for the 2024 presidential election.
1:09:53 So we were expecting maybe Monday or Tuesday of this week to actually get an official announcement.
1:09:59 By the time this episode comes out, there might be an official announcement, but obviously with
1:10:02 the stuff going on in Israel, everyone's kind of taking a back seat. But this is according to
1:10:06 Politico, a super PAC supporting Robert F Kennedy Jr. has begun polling his support as an independent.
1:10:12 One of the strongest indications to date that the long shot Democrat is set to announce a party
1:10:17 affiliation switch. The poll conducted by the firm John Zogby strategies and commissioned by the
1:10:22 American values 2024 PAC comes amid growing speculation fueled by Kennedy himself that he
1:10:28 will leave the Democratic Party in the upcoming weeks. But what the PAC found is it's in its survey,
1:10:33 maybe as notable as the tea leaves around a switch itself. Kennedy as an independent would pull more
1:10:39 support away from Republican Donald Trump than Democrat Joe Biden, according to the findings.
1:10:44 So right to the big takeaway on this one, of course, this helps Joe Biden more than it does
1:10:50 Trump. Are you kidding? Of course it does. Those findings are not the least bit surprising because
1:10:55 people are like, well, wait a minute, like this is, you know, RFK Jr. He's he's going directly
1:11:00 against Joe Biden because he's running as a Democrat, right? But you have to ask yourself,
1:11:04 who is he going to pull support from? Go back to Ross Perot. This guy was a guy that had
1:11:08 conservative leanings. And so when George H. W. Bush was was representing the Republican Party,
1:11:15 the 20% or so that he pulled off a off of the two candidates mainly came from George H. W. Bush's
1:11:21 support, not Bill Clinton's support. That's why Bill Clinton was president. That's why the
1:11:24 Clintons are even a thing right now because of Ross Perot. And this is that exact setup. You
1:11:30 have to ask yourself, do you know any Biden supporter that is going to peel off and vote for RFK
1:11:36 if he's an independent? Because I don't know that that person actually exists.
1:11:40 All the people that I know that like RFK Jr, they're kind of Trumpy. They're conservative
1:11:48 folks. These are people that maybe don't like Trump that much. But then they could vote for
1:11:53 this RFK guy because gosh darn it, he sure made sense on the Joe Rogan experience.
1:11:56 So if he does actually run as a third party, that super duper helps Trump another reason
1:12:02 why electing Trump or as the nominee for the Republican Party is not a great idea.
1:12:07 He's got so many things stacked against him. This would be another one. I've heard about Cornell
1:12:11 West running like no one's going to vote for Cornell West. I've heard about this, you know,
1:12:15 what, no, no borders policy. I can't remember the name. It's like the, the no, I can't remember
1:12:19 what it is. But people are talking about Joe Manchin running and different things like that.
1:12:23 That's not going to hurt Joe Biden. Okay. Most of these things hurt Trump. Another reason why
1:12:27 making him the nominee is foolish if you actually want Biden out of the White House.
1:12:32 Okay. Next quick hitter here, California governor Gavin Newsom's surprising veto of AB 957.
1:12:37 So if you remember back on episode 499 of this podcast, I talked about California's AB 957,
1:12:43 which would require judges to take into account whether a parent affirms a child's gender identity
1:12:48 or gender expression when determining custody. Right now. At that time, it had passed the
1:12:54 California State House and Senate and was heading to Governor Newsom's desk. Everyone on the planet,
1:12:59 yours truly included, thought that he would sign it immediately. The moment it is desk
1:13:02 because he's one of the most left leaning child general mutilating, supporting politicians and
1:13:07 American public life. But I was wrong. So this is according to Gavin Newsom himself in a letter
1:13:12 that he released from his official office to the members of the California State Assembly.
1:13:17 I am returning assembly bill 957 without my signature. This legislation would require a court
1:13:22 when determining the best interests of a child in a custody, a child custody or visitation proceeding
1:13:27 to consider among other comprehensive factors, a parent's affirmation of the child's gender
1:13:32 identity or gender expression. I appreciate the passion and values that led the author to introduce
1:13:37 this bill. I share a deep commitment to advancing the rights of transgender Californians, an effort
1:13:42 that has guided my decisions through many decades in public office. That said, I urge caution when
1:13:47 the executive and legislative branches of state government attempt to dictate in prescriptive terms
1:13:52 that single out one characteristic legal standards for the judicial branch to apply. Other minded
1:13:58 elected officials in California and other states could very well use the strategy to diminish the
1:14:02 civil rights of vulnerable communities. Moreover, a court under existing law is required to consider
1:14:08 a child's health and safety and welfare when determining the best interests of a child in
1:14:12 these proceedings, including the parents affirmation of the child's gender identity. For these reasons,
1:14:17 I cannot sign this bill sincerely. Gavin Newsom. Okay. So a couple of things real quick on that
1:14:24 message. He talked about the child's gender identity and gender expression. Obviously,
1:14:27 that's just left wing language. There's no such thing as a gender identity or gender expression.
1:14:32 You are just your gender. You are your sex. But then he talks about how he appreciates the passion
1:14:36 and the values. So he's signaling that he agrees with the contents of the law. So why not just
1:14:42 approve it? But he also said, I, I agree with the steep commitment to advancing the rights of transgender
1:14:47 Californians. Obviously, he means that. But then this line was so ridiculous. I urge caution when
1:14:54 the executive and legislative branches of state government attempt to indicate in prescriptive
1:14:58 terms that single out one characteristic legal standards for judicial branch to apply.
1:15:03 When has Gavin Newsom been concerned about judicial overreach?
1:15:10 As it pertains to the executive and legislative branch, he's literally weaponizing the courts of
1:15:16 California to get his executive and legislative things through. But what exactly is he talking
1:15:22 about? Well, he's a liar. So that's, that's part of it. But then he also talks about the, you know,
1:15:26 the health safety and welfare of the child as if cutting off the healthy breast tissue or the
1:15:31 penis of a little child is actually going to help them. But my big takeaway on this
1:15:36 is dude is running for president. He is absolutely running for president. He's sitting around
1:15:42 waiting on Joe Biden to die. Maybe even he'll, he'll run anyway. The reason that he did not sign
1:15:49 this so that it would go into law in California is because he has to do something to seem sort
1:15:54 of centrist. Because if he's going to run for president, he has to seem sort of centrist because
1:15:59 he knows the majority of parents across the United States are going to look at this and go,
1:16:02 what? Well, you're going to do what now? You're going to allow some diabolically evil woman to
1:16:08 convince her little boy that he's a little girl just so she can stick it to the father of the child
1:16:13 during the court proceedings. And that there's, people don't really have a stomach for that,
1:16:17 at least not right now. So I certainly think he's running for president. The Democrats know
1:16:21 they're in trouble. Joe Biden is an absolutely horrific, terrible president. Kamala Harris would
1:16:26 somehow be worse. Again, I don't think that Joe Biden loses to Donald Trump. I think he loses
1:16:31 to just about every other Republican candidate. But he is just standing by waiting for his shot.
1:16:36 All right. Last quick hitter of the day, I know it's a long one today, but here we go.
1:16:40 Famous tattoo artist Kat Von D renouncing witchcraft, accepting Christ. So this is according to today.
1:16:46 Kat Von D is beginning a new chapter of her life. On October the third, the famed tattoo artist
1:16:51 in LA Inc star posted a video of her getting baptized on Instagram more than a year after she
1:16:56 announced that she was giving up witchcraft. The clip, which is captioned only with a sign of
1:17:00 a cross captures some of the people at the baptism while angelic music plays before the camera settles
1:17:06 in on her. Catherine Von Dragonberg, Dragonberg, I hope, upon your profession of faith in the
1:17:11 Lord Jesus Christ and in obedience to his divine command, I baptize you my sister in the name of
1:17:16 the father and the son and the Holy Spirit. The pastor says before dunking her in the baptismal
1:17:20 pool. She then hugs the pastor while those in attendance applaud. In July of 2022, Von D shared
1:17:26 a photo of tarot cards and several books on witchcraft while revealing she was giving up her
1:17:32 interest in macabre subject matters. So in addition to this, I know that Kat Von D left California,
1:17:39 I think she was living in Los Angeles. And a couple of years ago, she moved to Indiana,
1:17:43 small town, Indiana. And so it seemed like she was detoxing from the world that she was steeped in,
1:17:50 because yeah, I have a lot of tattoos, but people that are like in the tattoo community,
1:17:54 this can be a very, very dark place, right? They don't just kind of look crazy. Some of these
1:17:58 people believe really, really crazy things. And so she was dabbling in witchcraft and the occult,
1:18:04 the satanic types of things. But then as soon as she got out of this hub of just Sodom and Gomorrah
1:18:12 ask actions of Los Angeles, boost a small town in Indiana, she finds Christ or Christ finds her
1:18:19 whatever your preferred languages. But my big takeaway here on this one is you are never too
1:18:26 depraved for the blood of Christ. For all intents and purposes, most people that have ever been
1:18:33 around Kat Von D found her to be a very charming young lady. Like, you know, we all have our faults,
1:18:39 but she wasn't this like horrible, terrible person. But she certainly made some very sinful
1:18:44 decisions and believe some very satanic ideologies in her life. And you might think to yourself,
1:18:48 well, God can't save her. Some of you think that tattoos in and of themself are sinful.
1:18:52 And God help you. Let me let me help you read the Bible real quick. But the thing that is so
1:18:58 interesting is people will look at that video and see the piercings and the tattoos and think,
1:19:03 Oh, man, she can't be saved. I mean, this young lady, I think she's in her late 30s, early 40s.
1:19:08 She's a mother now. And Christ just snatched her up. And so to anyone in my audience today,
1:19:15 that's sinking into themselves, man, God can't save me. I've done too many bad things. I've hurt
1:19:20 way too many people. I've destroyed my body. Kat Von D should be inspiration to you to actually
1:19:26 look at the gospels and see that when Jesus died, determine whether or not that somehow
1:19:33 counted for you is be a great thing for you to think through. Perhaps the most important thing
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In this episode, we discuss the recent LGBTQ+-affirming Unconditional Conference that Andy Stanley and North Point Community Church hosted. Some reports claim that Andy Stanley affirmed the biblical stance on homosexuality and marriage, but did he? Also, in the Quick Hitters segment, we discuss Trevor Bauer having his professional baseball career destroyed by a conniving, manipulative, gold-digging whore, Paw Patrol featuring a non-binary character, President Biden’s egregious tweet mocking “thoughts and prayers”, RFK Jr. indicating that he plans to launch an Independent bid for the 2024 Presidential election, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s surprising veto of AB 957, and famous tattoo artist Kat Von D renouncing witchcraft and accepting Christ. Let’s get into it…

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