Welcome to Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're going to talk today about 10 questions that you can ask a pastoral candidate concerning social justice. If you're a Christian, if your church is looking for a

pastor, which I happen to know a lot of churches right now are doing just that, I think there's a

generational thing going on. Baby boomers are retiring and so there's that at the same time there's

been a lot of friction political friction theological friction and pastors have

either left or congregations have given pastors the boot that that happens a lot less often but

there's just a lot of churches open for pastors right now and and I've had a lot of

emails from people inside some of these churches asking what do I say?

What do I do when there's a pastor we're looking at and I just want to ensure that not only are they going to sign our statement of faith,

but they're not going to sign our statement of faith come into the church

and then start pushing social justice and we'll have more friction.

We want to avoid that.

So I get that, I understand that.

And so that's why I'm doing this podcast these

are 10 questions there could be a lot more these are just 10 I jotted down

today and and these are really based on a lot of the things that I have gone over in my book

Christianity and Social Justice, Religions and Conflict. It is out by the way. You can go to

Amazon on get it. By the time I post this podcast you could probably go to Christianity and social justice.

That's Christianity and social justice.com and there you can find the Amazon link but you can also

get an autographed copy and I know those will be

available I think on something like October 10th or 11th I'll be shipping some of

those out so a little bit of a delay on that if you're watching this late September. But I would

encourage you if you want the autograph copy, it does probably support me a little more

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