A conversation with Andy Stanley - S10.E4

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jesus said we are to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, but render unto God what is God’s. Atlanta megachurch pastor Andy Stanley believes that the evangelical church has devoted too much time and energy to Caesar and not enough to God. In this conversation with host Warren Smith, Stanley talks about the ways Christians have been fighting for the wrong goals, in the wrong way.

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0:00.0	I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with pastor and author Andy Stanley.
0:10.5	His new book is Not in It to Win It, Why Choosing Sides Sidelines the Church.
0:19.6	We discovered in this season what's been true for a long time that what's most important
0:23.3	to many evangelicals, many conservative Christians, is what's important to everybody else,
0:28.1	and that is winning.
0:29.0	We've got to win, win, win, win.
0:30.5	And then you open the New Testament and realized Jesus decided to lose, lose, lose, on purpose,
0:36.4	with a purpose, with us and mind, and we are commanded to follow him.
0:43.8	Jesus said we are to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, but render unto God what is God's.
0:51.9	Andy Stanley believes that the evangelical church has devoted too much time and energy to
0:58.1	Caesar and not enough to God. He does not advocate a complete withdrawal from the political process.
1:06.3	Some issues and ideas are worth fighting for, he says, and using the political process to work for the good,
1:14.7	the true, and the beautiful can be a way we love our neighbors. But he says much of the
1:21.8	involvement of Christians in the political process today is not fueled by love, but by fear.
1:29.7	He says we too often fight for the wrong goals, and we fight in the wrong way,
1:36.8	aiming to win political victory at all costs rather than aiming to win people to Christ.
1:44.1	We've become more interested in saving America than we have in saving Americans.
1:51.6	In Notting to Win it, he says that churches, church leaders, and prominent pastors have too often taken their cues from the culture rather than showing the culture an
2:03.7	alternative way, not a middle way, but a higher way of being salt and light in the world.
2:11.3	Andy spoke to me about his new book from his office in Atlanta.
2:30.2	Thank you. from his office in Atlanta. Support for listening in
2:32.1	Samaritan Ministries, a community of Christians who care for one another spiritually and financially when a medical need arises.
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