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Unshaken Faith

#12 Should Christians Avoid Siding with Political Parties?

Unshaken Faith

Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Russell Moore, David French, and Curtis Chang are coming out with a small group curriculum for churches called "The After Party." In anticipation of the presidential election cycle next year, they say they want to counter the "dangerous trend" of evangelicals having their political identity "formed by partisan forces, not by true Biblical faith." Russell Moore says that this After Party Curriculum was originally going to be titled, "The Post-Partisan Church." But should that be the goal? Should the church be post-partisan?

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

0:05.0

Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

0:11.0

boldly in a chaotic culture. Russell Moore, who's the editor and chief of Christianity today, David French and

0:32.3

Curtis Chang are coming out with a small group

0:34.4

curriculum for churches called the after party. In anticipation of the

0:38.5

presidential election cycle next year, they say they want to counter the quote

0:42.3

unquote dangerous trend of

0:44.3

evangelicals having their political identity formed by partisan forces not by true

0:49.2

biblical faith. Now this curriculum is not out yet so we're not reviewing its content in our show today

0:55.6

but we do want to look at the very common idea promoted by popular Christian

1:00.7

pastors authors and other leaders that the church somehow needs to rise

1:05.0

above partisanship. Russell Moore says that this after-party curriculum, for example,

1:09.6

was originally going to be titled the Post-partisan Church. But should that be the goal? Should the

1:14.8

church be post-partisan? We'll dive into that in just a minute, but let's first hit

1:19.3

some announcements and our tips of the week. Well, we're so excited to be coming to Chino Hills,

1:24.8

Calvary Chapel Chino Hills with our Unshaken Conference on May 6th.

1:28.8

Again, if you're anywhere in the Southern California area,

1:31.4

we would love to see you come out for that. You can go to unshaken conference.com to register for that to get your tickets. Also, tickets for Tucson and Nashville are going to go on sale next month in April so we'll be in Tucson on

1:45.1

September 23rd and in Nashville on November 4th so we are just so excited to be

1:52.2

joining with our friend Frank Turk to bring you the

1:54.0

unshaken conference. So my tip of the week is just to learn one new thing

1:58.8

every day. I think in this kind of chaotic culture, Christians feel really overwhelmed with all of the different

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