A conversation with Jake Meador - S10.E7
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We know what we're saved from, but what are we saved for? Jake Meador dives deeply into that question by beginning at the beginning. God made the world, and He made it good. That foundation helps us read both Scripture and history in new and helpful ways.
In this conversation with host Warren Smith, Jake Meador explains our role as God’s ambassadors in the work of restoring all things to Himself.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Jake Meador. |
| 0:10.9 | His new book is What Are Christians For? |
| 0:14.8 | Life Together at the End of the World. |
| 0:17.9 | On the one hand, you have a right to your own wealth and you even have a duty |
| 0:22.1 | to try and earn wealth so that you're better able to give to others. On the other hand, |
| 0:29.8 | you have a duty to give freely of what you have according to the needs of others. |
| 0:41.3 | And so again, it fits with this broader tradition I'm trying to gesture to, |
| 0:43.6 | which affirms a right to private property, |
| 0:46.8 | but also attaches a lot of expectations to that |
| 0:51.8 | about how we will use that wealth and that property. |
| 0:58.0 | Most evangelical Christians can tell you what they are saved from. |
| 1:04.0 | They are saved from sin, from death, from hell. |
| 1:08.4 | But what are Christians saved for? A surprisingly few Christians could give you a robust and |
| 1:17.5 | biblical answer to that question. The Westminster Catechism provides one answer when it says |
| 1:24.0 | the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. The Apostle Paul |
| 1:31.5 | tells us that we have been reconciled to God so that we ourselves might be reconcilers. The |
| 1:39.4 | ministry of Christians is in fact to be reconcilers and peacemakers in a beautiful but broken world. |
| 1:48.0 | God's ambassadors in the work of restoring all things to himself. |
| 1:54.5 | But understanding these ideas requires deep thought. |
| 1:59.5 | Actually, bringing these ideas to life at a time when deep thought is not encouraged, |
| 2:05.7 | a time when public discourse thrives more on dividing and conquering than it does on reconciliation |
| 2:13.2 | and restoration. Well, in these times, it's even more challenging. And that's why Jake Meador's new |
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