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Theology Applied

BONUS - Those Who Say “This World Is Not Our Home” To Justify Avoiding Cultural/Political Issues

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9801 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How should we respond to those who say “this world is not our home” in order to justify not getting involved in the culture war and politics? Many Christians point to Bible verses that describe us as “sojourners” and “strangers” in order to support their avoidance of the tangible issues of our day. Are these Christians right? Are we merely sojourners in this world? Or does the Bible have a different message for New Testament Christians?

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gets out to as many people as possible. Thanks. All right, welcome back to another live Monday Q&A with myself, Pastor Joel Webbin

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with Right Response Ministries. We do this every Monday at noon, 12 p.m. Central Time, every Monday at 12 p.m. Central

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Time. I'm going to go ahead and just jump right into it. I've got a few announcements that I'll make

0:33.8

along the way. But today's topic, what I want to address is one of the most common objections that

0:40.6

you'll hear people use, which I believe is a misinterpretation, a twisting of the

0:46.7

scripture, but they'll use this in order to assuage their guilty consciences and justify

0:52.1

their uninvolvement, their outright avoidance of being engaged

0:59.7

biblically with certain cultural and political issues in the world today. What people will say

1:06.3

is they'll say, well, this world is not our home. And they'll use verses in the New Testament

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that speak of Christians as strangers in this world, aliens in this world, sojourners. Those are the

1:20.8

words that the New Testament does in fact use to describe New Testament Christians and their

1:26.9

present placement in this world.

1:30.3

The Bible does use those terms, but those terms are misused by those who are basically

1:36.3

just against post-millennialism.

1:39.2

They're basically individuals who want to say there is no culture war.

1:43.4

At this point, that rhetoric has kind of

1:45.9

fall into the wayside. You don't hear a lot of Christians using that any longer. It's pretty

1:50.9

much impossible to ignore at this point when you have our culture and politics trying to trans

1:58.1

kids, putting CRT curriculum in our schools. You've got drag queen,

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