Can political controversy actually serve the local church? (with Chuck Mingo)

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Some churches seek to exploit political controversy for self-serving ends. But many more churches instinctively avoid controversy, and steer away from topics that may reveal differences. In this episode, Curtis is joined by Chuck Mingo to explore a different route: treating this upcoming election season as an opportunity for spiritual growth. They make the case that the same spiritual muscles that get built in politics apply also to marriages, parenting, employment and other areas of discipleship. Curtis and Chuck also talk about the practicalities involved: what should happen on Sunday morning (and what shouldn’t); the top rookie mistakes made when first trying to engage in politics; how the posture of the “wounded healer” is necessary for pastors; and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast on your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith Podcast
0:21.8	is a production of redeeming babble, and it's where friends who follow Jesus' help each
0:26.9	other make sense of the world. And for my friend, for this week is Chuck Mingo returning back to the
0:35.0	Good Faith Podcast. Chuck, welcome back. Curtis, happy to be back. Always good to see you and
0:41.8	loved, and I got a chance to hear you share your perspective on what it looks like to be faithful
0:47.2	in these changing times when you were in Ohio recently. So it was wonderful to see you.
0:51.1	It was, for listeners, we'll remember perhaps that the podcast we did on an exciting
0:56.4	immigration in the panel afterwards. Chuck was sitting right next to me to my left,
1:01.4	and that was really fun to be together in Ohio. And actually, our work in Ohio is why I'm so
1:07.2	eager to talk with Chuck today. So Chuck is a teaching pastor at Crossroads Church with the largest
1:15.1	church in Ohio, and he's also the founder, co-founder, I guess, of Undivided, which is a ministry
1:23.4	that helps churches navigate controversies in race. And this is especially relevant to the work
1:31.1	that redeeming babble is doing, because we are about to launch the Afterparty Project in a pilot
1:38.6	rollout in Ohio. And so Chuck being a leading pastor in Ohio would be, I thought would be a great
1:46.6	conversation partner in leading up to this. And with Undivided, he also has great experience in
1:54.0	helping churches navigate through controversial topics. And so Chuck, the way I want to set up
1:59.0	this conversation is really around the question, can political controversy actually serve the local
2:06.2	church? Can it serve the local church, rather than it being a problem? And here's how I would
2:13.2	why I really wanted to talk with you is because, you know, the Afterparty is targeting churches
2:19.6	that have not staked their identity on one party or another. They have not gone all conservative
2:25.6	or all progressive, all MAGA, or all woke. They are being led by, and I think are populated,
2:31.9	primarily by people who either believe consciously or believe instinctively that the allegiance to
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