#150 How Should Christians Think About and Engage with Politics? with Jeff Myers
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 24 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Should Christians get involved in politics? In the first of a two-part series, Dr. Jeff Myers of Summit Ministries joins me to talk about how Christians should think biblically about public policy.
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| 0:00.0 | This conversation does not start with Christian conservatives versus Christian progressives. |
| 0:04.8 | It goes all the way back, I would say, at least in the American sense, back to a dispute between |
| 0:10.4 | two philosophers named John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. John Locke said, humans have a sin |
| 0:16.4 | nature, and if you put people into power and you don't hold them accountable, they will become |
| 0:21.8 | corrupt. Rousseau said on the other hand, now, humans don't have a sin nature. We're all basically |
| 0:28.3 | pure. Two different revolutions came out of that. So you can see right there how what you believe |
| 0:34.2 | about God and human nature affects everything else, and it could lead you toward a stable society, |
| 0:40.1 | or toward a chaotic, horrifying one. |
| 1:00.3 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast. I have a return guest for us today, |
| 1:04.3 | Dr. Jeff Myers. The reason he's coming on today is we are actually, for the, I think the first time |
| 1:11.2 | on this podcast, we are going to tackle the topic of politics, and I want to share a little bit about |
| 1:17.5 | why I want to broach this subject. So when I first started a podcast and my YouTube channel, |
| 1:23.7 | even my blog, it was very important to me that I wanted to not get political. I wanted to focus |
| 1:30.8 | on the core claims of historic Christianity, and that's what I've, for the most part, done. |
| 1:36.9 | Although it's been very interesting to me that when theology tends to intersect with what people |
| 1:42.7 | perceive to be politics, I've received emails and even feedback saying, hey, you're getting too |
| 1:48.4 | political, and that caused me to scratch my head because in my view, I was just making theological |
| 1:54.3 | claims. I'm talking about the Christian worldview. And so what I'm beginning to realize is that it's |
| 2:00.7 | virtually impossible to be completely apolitical, especially if you're a Christian because your theology |
| 2:08.2 | is going to drive your politics. And so in an attempt to think better about this, and for me, |
| 2:15.2 | even for myself, to think more deeply about it, I've invited my friend, Dr. Jeff Myers, who's |
| 2:21.6 | given this topic quite a bit of thought to come on and just give us a little bit of what we're |
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