Behaving as Christians in an Election Year

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Maintaining appropriate Christian behavior can be particularly challenging in a world where political discourse often becomes heated and divisive. In today's timely episode, Carl and Todd delve into the complexities of navigating faith and politics, especially during an election year. "We want to talk today about how Christians can have strong opinions on important issues and express those opinions in a way that does not undermine their broader Christian witness." – Carl Trueman What impact does political discourse have on Christian testimony, and how can we express strong opinions without compromising our witness? Their conversation delves into the rise of neo-Christian nationalism, the infantilism in modern politics, and the need for Christians to engage in the public sphere with integrity and honor. "We are not going to win the culture by aping the culture. Seek influence, push back against the darkness, but do so uniquely as Christians." – Todd Pruitt We were pleased to award three copies of Carl's book Crisis of Confidence to our listeners, thanks to the generosity of our friends at Crossway Books. Congratulations to Bradley L. from Rock Hill, SC, Brent B. from Longview, WA, and Alex O. from Jenison, MI!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. Welcome to Mordification of spin. My name's Carl Truman, Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies
0:54.9	at the Beautiful Grove City College in western Pennsylvania. Here, as always, with my long-standing
1:01.4	friend, Reverend Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian
1:09.3	Church in America in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:15.1	Good to be with you, Todd.
1:16.1	This is kind of a running joke with us, but you labor so much just to remember each of those details.
1:26.2	And I do notice that every once in a while your throat catches right before you say Reverend, Todd Pruitt.
1:32.3	I can tell that that's particularly...
1:33.3	Still can't quite believe it.
1:34.3	That's a challenge for you.
1:35.3	Yeah, yeah. I get it.
1:38.3	I understand.
1:40.3	It's just because you've never seen me at my most sanctified. Yeah, yeah. And so that's what it is, probably. Yeah. I hope so, because if I have seen
1:49.8	you at your most sanctified, that is not a great judgment on your overall sanctification.
1:54.8	This is true. This is true. You know, you and I were talking earlier. We're on this little
2:00.6	text loop. You and I were talking earlier. We're on this little text loop.
2:02.7	You and I, Kevin DeYoung and our friend Matt Ucie in Florida.
2:07.3	And every once in a while, Matt Uc and I will text each other individually
2:12.4	because it'll be something not dirty, but a little irreverent.
2:20.6	And Kevin is such a tenderhearted, nice guy.
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