Again, we don't have to be angry or belligerent. We certainly don't need to be violent,

but we have to be willing to tell the truth. It's not a lack of awareness. I think in most cases it's been a

lack of courage, even perhaps a lack of permission. The reality is the contemporary

church and I've spent my life in the contemporary church so I'm not

casting stones but we're struggling these days to find a voice a message or a mission

the division which plagues our society and be certain we are a divided society is equally on display in our religious

institutions.

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Now, it's on to Pastor Allen.

Be blessed.

I began a new study in the previous session talking about Jesus, his followers and politics because I wanted a topic that wouldn't be controversial.

No, honestly, I don't have any interest in controversy.

There's too much work to be done to fool with just needlessly stirring up confusion.

But I think we need to understand the church's role in the earth and there's a great deal of confusion around that these days.

And I wanted to spend a few sessions with you exploring it.

In this session we're going to talk about a very, really the heart of it I think, or least the good introduction and that was Jesus political.

Now that has everything to do with how you define the term political and I'm going to work on that with you.

In fact I'm going to give you a really brief Hebrew lesson. Aren't you excited?

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