Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. With the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. After an amazing victory on Mount Carmel against the prophets of Baal, Elijah fell into a deep depression. Not only had he seen God work in a miraculous way, he'd proven before Israel who was the one true God. And yet almost immediately, Elijah questioned whether God could protect him from Jezebel and falsely believed he was the only faithful believer left in the nation.
Here's what he said. I've been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left. And they seek my life to take it away.
Now there's a lot to learn from this story, both about the vulnerabilities of humans and the kindness of God. For example, I love that the author of 1 Kings includes the detail that God sent an angel to Elijah to help him. And that meant help him sleep and cook him food. Also, by informing Elijah of the 7,000 people in Israel who had not bowed Anidabaal, God was reminding Elijah that he was still very much at work in the world, and that he primarily works in the world through people. God has His people everywhere.
Often He uses unlikely candidates to be courageous voices of truth. The new film Truth Rising tells the story of five courageous voices in this civilizational moment. For example, as a young teenager, Chloe Cole was so completely lost and deceived about who she was, she underwent a double mastectomy attempting to be male. But God worked in her life to reveal what was true about who she is. And now, having detransitioned, she's a powerful advocate for the truth that humans are made in God's image, male and female.
She's a powerful force pushing back against darkness. The story of Seth Dylan and the Babylon Bee is the story of the last decade. First, a popular and funny satirical site was canceled from one of their most powerful channels of influence for saying something that was true. Committed, as Alexander Soltzenitzen put it, to live not by lies, Dylan refused to take a shortcut around the truth. But God was at work, and how that story turned out shocked everyone.
My friend Katie Faust was a pastor's wife in the Northwest with an anonymous blog. She spoke truth about an ideology that subjects children to the whims of adult desire. And then Katie was doxed by someone who threatened her. and her entire church community. And God used that incident to make Katie a leading champion around the world for the rights and well-being of children.
Now, courage is not typically a required qualification for bakers, but it was for Jack Phillips. One afternoon, Jack took a stand when asked to design a cake with a message that was not true. That stand led to 13 years of attacks by the state of Colorado and one of the most consequential First Amendment wins of our lifetime, and several conversions to Christ. Again, God was at work. And then there's the story of Ayanne Hersi Ali, whose faith journey took her from Islam to atheism to Christ.
An activist, political leader, and author, Ayanne has now found what she was looking for and believes deeply that God has placed her as a truth-teller in this crucial cultural moment. And that's exactly what she's doing in this moment. Stories like these are at the heart of the Truth Rising documentary and the Truth Rising study. They remind us that God is still at work through his people today, just as He was on Mount Carmel through Elijah. They also remind us that we're not alone in our calling to this time and this place.
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Again, that's colsoncenter.org/slash December. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with Breakpoint. Hi, friends, and listeners of Breakpoint. This is John Stone Street. You know, every single Wednesday morning, after an entire week of exchanging numerous emails about various stories of things happening in our culture, we get together as an editorial team and wrestle with the stories that we need to talk about.
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