When must Christians engage a political issue?
- How do Christians know which political issues they must engage versus leave alone?
- What is the practical take-home for listeners on engaging culture faithfully?
Picking up the MLK discussion, a host asks for the tipping point between engaging a political issue and skipping it. The hosts land on engaging where the political process speaks on something Jesus has spoken on: the sanctity of life (abortion) and marriage are God's issues, while taxes and zoning are not. One host shares rejoining a political party for the Iowa caucuses while wrestling with forcing people to act like Jesus-followers versus representing Jesus. They conclude discipleship changes culture more effectively than lobbying, noting the church ceded widows-and-orphans care to government and is now ceding morality the same way.
More on Discipleship
-
Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
- Should following Jesus feel more comfortable as time goes on?
A host asks whether following Jesus should feel more comfortable as time goes on — noting the low-level tension many feel around am-I-doing-enough and the stigma that contentment equals laziness.
-
Confetti and lasers: what should God's people be known for?
- Do we want to be known as the confetti and lasers people?
- What should God's people be known for?
Ben redirects to the docket's denomination question: when someone hears Silas's church described as 'the confetti and lasers people,' should that sting?
From No. 598 · Emphasis | Accountability, Worship and Praying with Strangers
-
Recovery ministries, charismatic experience, and sustainable faith
- Can recovery ministries replace a chemical high with a spiritual high, and is that sustainable?
A long pastoral discussion starting from recovery ministries, which tend to come from charismatic backgrounds: the risk of trading a chemical high for event-driven spiritual highs.
From No. 555 · The Aslan Wears Prada
-
What does it mean to make disciples
- What does it mean to make disciples — is it just giving information, or does it involve accountability and structure?
The hosts take up the third topic: two extremes of disciple-making. On one side, being only an information provider and leaving everything to the Spirit; on the other, running…
From No. 545 · By Invitation Only