Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're going to do a quick

overview and response to David Platt's book before you vote. It's popular. He's a popular

author, Rob Radical many years ago, which was kind of a pre-social

justice movement book, kind of felt guilty for the American Dream afterward, but wasn't

full on, you know, full on socialism or anything like that but he did write that book he

was president of the I. M. B. International Mission Board for the Southern

Baptist Convention. He pastors McLean Bible Church now in Northern Virginia and

influential church highly rated book popular book and the logic used in this book is employed now everywhere I

just see it all over the place from more progressively minded

evangelicals especially and so I want to address it I want to go over and

address it I think the main Achilles heel the main issue is God's

law seems to be almost left out of the equation in this in my opinion God's law seems to be almost left out of the equation in this in my opinion

God's law it this isn't a pastor giving good clear instructions from the

Bible about how a Christian should steward their boat based on the moral law of

God which has been laid down.

It is more a book on how can we have some kind of unity amid the political strife and we can all

make sure that we don't fight because we're justifying our votes in various ways.

You can vote for Biden and do it for a poverty alleviation, let's say, and that's fine, and you vote for Trump

because you're pro-life and that's fine.

I would say the logic he's employing though is... because you know

know that's fine I would say the logic he's employing though is a switch the religious

right has you know that kind of organization has characterized the Christian

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