Welcome to Leadership Now with Dr. Aaron Rock, hosted on Beachhead Media and other podcasting platforms.

Aaron has served as a pastor, chaplain, denominational leader, professor, and writer,

and he is a desire to help others think Christianly about all of life.

On this show, we discussed the nuts and bolts of theology, church life, ethics, apologetics,

culture, politics, and other issues to help you lead better now.

Well, we are back. It's been a few weeks since our last episode, but we're very excited to be back here in the studio, bringing you another episode of the Leadership Now show. And so our topic for discussion today is control. Now, it's something that a lot of people talk about, especially when it

comes to government control. So we see things like controlled speech. Even recently, we've

seen banning walks in forests as unbelievable as that sounds, to pandemic lockdowns, to the

use of property being restricted, to massive taxation. If you

look at all these things as a whole, it would appear that the government is actually more

controlling, or at least attempting to be, more controlling than God. And so that is our

subject for discussion on this week's

episode of leadership now. We're going to be talking about who really is more controlling

God or the government. So people very often will perceive God as this sort of hyper-controlling

God because of all these different rules.

We see a lot of laws in the Bible.

And so some people have that perception of God, that he's just all about control and

controlling the lives and different aspects of his creation.

So, Aaron, to kind of get the ball rolling on this discussion, maybe you could speak a little

bit about how that is kind of used as an

argument to reject God. 100%. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, we had a little bit of vacation time, so that's

why we've had a bit of a delay, but that's okay. It's good to be back. So the reason why I wanted

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