- [Charlene] Signs ofincivility and outrage abound.

- [Group] Leave survivors!

- [Charlene] From our nation'scapital where protestors

angry over the Kavanaughconfirmation process

jam Senate hallways andinterrupted CBN News' coverage

of the demonstrations.

- Well, today has beenone of the rowdiest days

during the hearing vote,

inside the hearing room and outside.

The hearing began with the first hour,

was just very intensebetween the senators.

- [Charlene] To collegecampuses where last year,

rioters virtually took over Berkeley

because they wanted to stop a commentator

from the conservative right-barred website

from speaking on campus.

- Seems that we're ina time when people are

increasingly at odds with one another

and it's an outrageoustime with a lot of anger.

- [Charlene] In his new book,

Christians in the Age ofOutrage, speaker and author,

Ed Stetzer, points out ourcountry's deep divisions,

hoping the church can bring about healing.

But before that canhappen, he says the church

must focus on itself.

- I think one of the thingsthat has been important to note

in the last few years is that sometimes,

the pile of political divisions

has actually gotten into the church.

In a way that maybe it hasn't in the past.

- Spencer says Christians cancounter the growing outrage

we see in our culture today

simply by exercising greaterspiritual discipline.

- My desire is we mightact and love and listen

and speak more like Jesuswould in these situations.

- [Charlene] Spencer, whois also the Billy Graham

distinguished chair of church,mission, and evangelism

at Wheaton College, anexecutive director of

the Billy Graham Center, says social media

is a big part of the problem.

He says Christians can hurt their witness

by not properly engagingdebates on hot topic issues,

such as gay marriage or politics.

He offers a roadmap tonavigating online conversations.

- We can be in an evangelical echo chamber

where everyone sort of things like we do

and then we're shockedto find out people have

a different world view, and they do!

We actually found in our research

that evangelicals arevery likely to mute people

or block people who disagree with them.

So, you're never hearing different views.

So, we have almost an undiscipled approach

to social media that'salienated our neighbors

and building sometimes evendivisions between Christians.

What we're calling forin Christians at the age

of outrage is a change to that,

a more thoughtful, biblical,spirit-filled approach

that ultimately engagesculture more effectively.

- [Charlene] He goes on toencourage evangelical Christians

to model the message of the gospel.

- So, the question is,we have to make choices.

How do we speak up for what's right?

Also, how do we show andshare the love of Jesus

in the midst of the brokenness?

I think our research showsthat people are saying,

"We've gotta see a shiftin the way we ultimately

"engage culture."

The division is not helping anybody,

in the long term, harmingthe witness of the gospel.

- [Charlene] He saysthe best way to do that

is through proper discipleship.

- I actually used tolisten to a political show.

I found that I couldn't pray

for the president at the timeand listen to that person

because I got so riled up.

So, what I had to do isin my own discipleship,

through spiritualdiscipline, I had to say,

that's shaping me in away that leads me away

from what actually theBible calls me to do.

So, I quit listening to that program,

kept praying for that president,

kept speaking up aboutthings that mattered to me.

But I was more discipled by my Bible.

And in the promptings of the Holy Spirit

than I was by the radio program or today,

it might be the cable newsprogram that I'm watching.

- [Charlene] Meanwhile,in this current culture,

Stetzer challenges Christiansto intentionally live

in a way that makes thegospel more appealing.

- I don't know thatChristians can solve all

the outrage issues.

I think the culture has just gone.

It's turned up the volume to 11

and it is just goingall in on the outrage.

So what I would say is, we need to show

a counter-culture message.

The gospel's always been counter-cultural.

It's always shown a different way.

When the world's running this way,

the scriptures teach a different way,

Jesus calls us to a better way.

So I think the better way is not to

join in and turn up the outrage volume,

but instead to enter in, on mission.

- [Charlene] Charlene Aaron,CBN News, Wheaton, Illinois.