Welcome to this episode of Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge.

Each week I offer 15-20 minute answers to tough theolog-

Questions. This is a 100% listener supported audio ministry of Relearn.org.

And for those who don't know, our mission at Relearn.org is to educate and equip

ordinary Christians to plant biblical, confessional house churches.

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All right, so Western culture is eroding before our eyes.

Riot seem to be non-stop, public peace seems to be an impossible task,

and everyone seems to feel the division is rising to an irreconcilable territory.

As Christians, what's our role in the chaos? What does the Bible say about our participation

in bringing peace in the midst of political war? This is what we're going to be talking about today,

but before we begin, I just want to make one quick announcement. It's that time of year for us as

a nonprofit. Our ministry is truly only made possible by those of you who give and support us

financially. And I want to tell you our plans for 2021. And I want to ask you to consider

making a donation of any amount to support those efforts. We have lots of things going on,

but 2021 will be the first year of our biblical house church planting school.

We have 20 men currently enrolled for this first term, which is a full enrollment.

And Lord willing, we'll have 20 more later next year. And this means that we could

possibly have 40 new biblical house churches planted in the next 18 months. We are currently,

however, short on instructors to grade papers and to support students. We are also needing to hire

about two more full-time faculty members that are qualified to do so. We are also hoping to apply

for Christian accreditation in the spring. But most importantly, we have many men who are

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