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In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast Todd Adkins and Barnabas Piper sit down to talk with Russell Moore, the president of the ERLC and author of Onward as well as several other books. Moore leads the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission which is the group that engages public policy, religious liberty, and cultural engagement. They seek to bring Christ’s kingdom to bear in every area of life from the needs of the most vulnerable to the halls of government.
BEST QUOTES
“Family, and church, squabbles are often the nastiest.”
“It’s easy to spiritualize issues of preference.”
“The things I’m the most worried about when it comes to ethical and moral issues are ones most people are not thinking about.”
“The main thing for us at the ERLC is centering ourselves on the Kingdom of God and calling people to see their main identity in the Kingdom of God.”
“When I find myself on ethically dangerous ground it’s because I am forgetting who I am and my place in the Kingdom of God.”
“When identity is stripped away what do I have?”
“Spend time listening to what people are saying to you.”
“Have non-Christian friends.”
“The church has always survived. It gives me a sense of hopefulness.”
“Those points of suffering – that’s where the growth is.”
“One of the things I have to have is solitude in order to think and pray and create.”
“What I aspire to is to have a lighter, fun household.”
“Oppressive family devotions create a false dichotomy about hen we do this scripture thing and when we don’t.”
“So much of what I’m worried about doesn’t matter.”
“Why do you think that your mistake is so serious that it should encompass every part of your life?”
“Your refusal to rest in God’s forgiveness is a form of pride.”
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Onward: Engaging The Culture Without Losing the Gospel
The Intimate Merton by Thomas Merton
The Gospel in the Modern World by J. Gresham Machen
The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
The Moment with Brian Koppelman
