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. In the last few years various groups of evangelicals have gotten together to write position statements on cultural subjects for believers to sign

on to in an effort to establish and gain some consensus on controversial subjects.

Some of these have been good and some not so good.

Well today we're talking about the latest effort called

the Confession of Evangelical Conviction which aims to establish principles around

political thought for Christians. The lead author of this statement is Skye Jatani, who co-hosts the

Holy Post podcast with Phil Vissure, whom you probably know as the creator of Vegeti Tales. Today we want to talk

through several of its major points because we think it makes for a really good case study of how commonly made statements about politics within the church right now can sound good, but they're actually quite misleading, sometimes even deceptive.

Let's start with a couple of announcements. We've got a lot to cover today so we'll hold

our tips of the week for next time, but Elisa what do you have for us?

Well we are going to be in Buffalo this weekend.

If you are anywhere in the Buffalo, New York area,

we would love to see you come out with us

to the Unshaken Conference.

And it's not too late to register that September 21st

this coming Saturday you can go to unshaken conference.com to register for that and

also if you're anywhere in the Austin, Texas area we're gonna be coming to you on November 16th and tickets are still

available for that as well at unshaking conference.com. Okay, so into our topic today, we

don't have the time in this episode to read the entire statement and to respond to everything in it.

It's again it's called the confession of evangelical conviction.

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