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

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

boldly in a chaotic culture. A few weeks ago we did an episode called Why The Church must divide on some political issues. We talked about why Christians

need to care about and get involved in politics and that we shouldn't be

concerned about it being divisive. Well today we want to talk about a related

issue.

Why is the church so afraid to talk about politics?

At least tonight we're having this conversation about the subject recently

because we encounter so many people who treat it like it is just such a taboo subject like

something Christians should just intuitively know we shouldn't talk about.

In fact, there are likely quite a few listeners who saw the title of this podcast

and had some reservations.

Oh no, they're talking about politics again.

But as we discussed in that last episode about the need to divide on some issues, politics

is just the process through which people living in communities decide on how they're going to live together.

So as Christians, we of course should have just as much say in how our communities and our country function as anyone else.

And we should be eager to

advocate for the common good. So if that's the case how did we get to this point where

Christians feel like we've done something wrong if we bring up politics with other Christians or maybe we feel

like yes we can say something but just not too much we don't want to say too much to

upset people. Well we've got some thoughts on these things. But first we have some

announcements and of course our tips of the week. Well, Pittsburgh is coming up in just

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