451 - How Should We Be Political? - with Dr. Timothy Gombis

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🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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First off, we were hit on all sides in this episode. Construction, sick kid interruptions, audio problems... it was bumpy. However, we stuck the landing...

How Should We be Political? Today, Mike and Tim welcome another Tim, Dr. Timothy Gombis, to explore the role of the church in politics and how to navigate political engagement as Christians. The church IS a political entity and the Christian way is political from beginning to end!

However, the focus should be on practicing the politics of the cross, which involves service, love, and advocacy for the weak. It is important to resist being seduced into practicing the politics of this world and instead focus on the politics of the kingdom of God. We also highlight the need to balance mental health with being concerned about justice issues and the importance of taking action at the local level.

Further, we discuss the dangers of getting caught up in national politics and the media's role in fueling anger and division, the idea of loyalty to Jesus and how it should shape our political engagement and the importance of focusing on local issues and taking action in our own communities. We need compassion, empathy, and understanding in our interactions with others, especially those with different political views.

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0:00.0	Hey folks this is Tim Stafford just giving you a little heads up this was a man we got hit on all sides on this episode
0:09.3	We have construction problems we got sick kid interruptions and we had an audio issue right in the middle that I ended up being able to fix but I didn't know that in real time while we were recording so you had a couple things
0:24.0	repeated just to they were repeated as like a form of insurance to make sure that
0:30.9	you guys all got to hear the good stuff that Gombus was
0:33.0	bringing so anyway there's your disclaimers without further ado here we go Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Voxalgy
0:57.4	podcast I am joined I'm sandwiched by Tim's today oh I've got a Gombus and a Stafford. I got we got the country bracketed.
1:06.2	We got Nashville, Louisville, and Auburn. That's right. And so great job.
1:12.6	Gobis, good morning.
1:15.0	What's happening?
1:16.4	All I guess it's afternoon to you.
1:17.6	You're in the Eastern time, which is nuts.
1:20.0	Nuts.
1:20.6	It's only three hours for me.
1:21.5	Yeah.
1:22.1	Yeah, I'm spending time. Not only three hours for me. Yeah.
1:25.4	Yeah, I'm spanning time zones. I just got back late last night from Seattle.
1:32.0	Nice. Doing that doesn't matter. I mean my sleep is all all over the place so who cares?
1:36.5	Even on a normal day your sleep is all over the place so who cares? Yeah. Yeah.
1:41.5	It's like you know the first literally the first interview we had with you, it was like, yeah, get up at 3.30 in the morning, I walk for two miles.
1:48.0	And then eat breakfast and read. It's like, okay, sure, like you do.
1:54.0	Um, ladies and gentlemen, if you are new to the podcast, the Reverend Dr. Timothy
2:00.2	J. Gombis is a Pauline scholar, a substitute teacher, a podcaster, a regular on Christian Mingle and
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