America's CHILLING Parallel with Pre-War Germany | Ep. 188

Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

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Christianity, Tv & Film, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Eric Metaxas joins Kirk Cameron to discuss the SHOCKING parallels between Germany in the 1930s and 2024 America. He examines the role that Christians play in that similarity and questions if the church is allowing evil to flourish. Don't miss this riveting conversation here on Takeaways with Kirk Cameron on TBN! Missed the last episode? Listen in as Dr. Carol Swain reveals the hidden agenda targeting America's children. WATCH Takeaways with Kirk Cameron episodes for free on TBN+: https://www.tbnplus.com/c/sy/tsVhjX4b Each episode of Takeaways with Kirk Cameron features knowledgeable guests having a respectful and thoughtful conversation surrounding topics that are impacting our society every day. Kirk’s hope is that you will walk away from this show with practical steps on how to better your family, your community, and your nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Live out your faith. Live it out in every sphere. That's what the Lord calls you to do.
0:36.5	It's what Jesus called us to do in his day.
0:39.6	And oftentimes it means being political.
0:41.7	Oftentimes politics is a gift for the people of God
0:45.0	to be able to express God's will.
0:54.0	Joining us now is best-selling author and host of the Eric Metaxus radio show, also seen weekly on TBN, Eric Metaxus.
1:02.9	Eric, we often hear the phrase, don't talk about religion or politics. That'll get you in trouble and, you know, ruin the party.
1:10.9	Except when we don't talk about religion and politics and we see the relationship, we see
1:15.4	what happened in Germany in the 1930s. Talk to us just for a moment about the parallels you see
1:21.5	between the American church and the German church in the 30s. Well, I talk about this in both of these books. So Letter of the American
1:29.9	Church and the new book, Religinalist Christianity. Basically, my friend, it is this. Every Christian,
1:37.3	and by the way, we are the church. It's not about that building or this building or this denomination.
1:41.1	We're the church. We may say, well, I know the Bible, I read the Bible,
1:46.2	but are you interpreting it correctly? Christians can often misinterpret parts of it or kind of
1:51.0	drift with the culture. That's what happened in Germany. They got so fixated on evangelism or on
1:57.1	doing church that when God called them to live out their faith heroically, which
2:03.8	comes with a cost, you might lose a job, you might lose a gig, whatever.
2:08.7	They said, you know, no, no, no, Romans 13, Luther, I wrote a book about Luther, he's big
2:13.4	on Romans 13, we're supposed to, whatever the government says we're supposed to, it's a good
2:16.3	witness. Wrong. Sometimes it is a very, very bad witness. And you have to have the wisdom to know
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