Hey everybody. Welcome to Ask the Pastor. I am Matt Love. I'm not the pastor.

Well, can't ask me anything. You're going to ask the pastor. But I'm going to ask the pastor.

I want to look at the audience, but I don't know, are they there? Are they there? They're all over the place. I love it.

Yeah. We are back with part two of our, we've kind of doing a little three, I don't know what you call it, mini-season of episodes focused on Pastor J.D.'s brand new book, Everyday Revolutionary. I was trying to think of a funny joke about how it's like a book about your time in the jungles of some war-torn country or something. But I don't know enough about it. Yeah. How I participated in Venezuela. Exactly right. But the book released on October 7th, I think it's, we're kind of just taking, asking some questions that are maybe allowing you to unpack like the why behind this book because it feels really, really timely.

And there's some things that I just know a lot of Christians are trying to navigate.

And one of the things specifically, so last week we talked a little bit more maybe about the kind of the political angle of some of this stuff. But I know a lot of the people that are on

your heart when you write this book are just Christians that are saying, what does it look like for me to be a Christian in this cultural

moment? So the question for today is, are Christians called to the culture war? And I know one of the

things you say in the book is faithfulness to the mission of Jesus is not less than boldness in the culture war. It is much more. So are Christians called to the culture war? And what does that look like? Yeah. So I don't want to say everything I said in the previous podcast. So it was all really good, though. Yeah. If you're listening to this, though, there is a dimension of the answer that you would need to get in the first podcast. Yes. I'm going to assume that we've all heard that.

And so let me focus a little bit more on the practical side of it because what I've found,

one of the reasons I wrote this book is a lot of believers are just like, I'm just not quite

sure what to do. I want to be bold. Yes. I want to be bold. I want to be faithful to Jesus. Does that mean, you know,

becoming just an online social media warrior, putting signs up in my yard. You know, what does that

mean? And so I, you know, I'm like, well, there's actually, there's actually a biblical answer.

It's like you said a minute ago. It's not less than clarity about controversial issues it's just a lot more

and the kind of the guy that i patterned this book off of was daniel in the old testament

because here you got a guy daniel who is so faithful and clear in his truth telling that he gets

thrown into the lion's den. Yep. Right?

And yet he is so beloved by the king whose wicked decree got him thrown into the lion's den that that king stays up all night outside the lion's den hoping he gets hope

that Daniel will make it to the night.

Yeah.

And you're like, how do you get to be in that position? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't think Daniel, I don't think the King Darius was outside the lion's den because he, you know, just because he missed Daniel's prophetic rebukes. Yes. He was there because he knew that Daniel genuine was his friend, that Daniel loved him. And he had a hard time imagining Babylon without Daniel. And he's like, I don't want to see this guy lost. I'm like, that's what we want to be in our community. We've said it for years at the Summit Church that our goal is for our community to say, we may not believe with those crazy people at Summit Church believe, but thank God they're here, because if not not we'd have to raise our taxes yeah right so

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