A Message From Pastor Tyler Burns

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday Tyler preached at Rice City Church where he is on staff as Lead Pastor. After worship he sat with the congregation and shared this message. With his permission I've pulled the audio to release here on Pass The Mic. I know many of you are looking to Pass The Mic to help process the events of this past week. That episode is still coming together and will likely be out next week at the earliest. You can find the message as well as the worship service on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMjCOqAg82I&t=627s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Who we are politically is not our foremost identity. It matters, but it's not our foremost identity.
0:07.0	So this is why violence has been released and has been released for a long time, don't think it's just happened yesterday. It has been released for a long time. Why? Because it has been
0:14.3	released for a long time. Why? Because it has started to become our
0:17.8	identity. Right. When you start sewing seeds of political rhetoric and partisanship, what happens?
0:26.8	You reap violence.
0:29.3	Very important.
0:30.3	Please hear me as your pastor.
0:32.4	Very important.
0:33.3	So it is our Christian responsibility.
0:36.2	Now, some people have said, because so-and-so is this
0:39.3	or that person is that, I'm not going to pray for them.
0:41.9	That's not my role.
0:43.4	Second Timothy too makes it clear.
0:44.6	We are supposed to pray for all those who are in authority.
0:47.8	And I don't think that just because I hold a strong opinion
0:50.4	that that exempts me from obeying God's command. That's bad
0:54.0	bad theology.
0:55.0	That's bad theology.
0:57.0	So we should be praying for everyone
1:00.0	in their in their humanity.
1:02.0	We should be praying for them. and their humanity.
1:05.3	We should be praying for them. And not passive aggressive prayers either.
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