Caring Enough to Confront - The Church and Politics, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It has been said that politics and religion are the two things you never talk about in public. But in this program, Chip dives head first into the tension between these topics by asking: do followers of Jesus have a role to play in the world of politics? Forget what you have heard on the news or read online, and study with us what the Bible says about the church, the government, and our involvement.
Main Points The Question: How to navigate through the maze of the church/politics conflict?The Answer: Four biblical absolutes for building a theological framework to think clearly about the Church and politics.
- There are two kingdoms in conflict. -John 18:36-37, 19:10-12
- Every believer has dual citizenship. -Mark 12:13-17
- Human governments are ordained by God to restrain evil. -Romans 13:1-7
- The Church is ordained by God to make disciples. -Matthew 28:18-20
The Answer: Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the church, the government, and the individual believer in the political arena.
- Let the Church be the Church!
- Don’t expect the government to achieve what only the Church can accomplish.
- Don’t expect the Church to accomplish what only individual believers can accomplish.
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever heard that old saying there are two topics you don't talk about in public |
| 0:05.7 | religion and politics? Well guess what? We're going to talk about both today and |
| 0:11.6 | the question we're seeking to answer is, |
| 0:14.6 | what is the role of the church in politics? |
| 0:17.8 | What does God say we should engage in |
| 0:20.5 | and what do we need to stay out of? |
| 0:22.4 | That's today. Stay with me. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:36.0 | And in just a minute we'll continue our series caring enough to confront by diving into one of the most contentious issues |
| 0:43.2 | as Christians face right now, politics. |
| 0:46.3 | Today, Chip steps back from the sound bites |
| 0:48.9 | and social media posts and reveals |
| 0:51.3 | what the Bible says about the church, the government, and our involvement. |
| 0:55.0 | He'll also strongly remind us how believers should act when conflicts arise. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, there's lots of insightful content to get to so here's Chip with his talk the |
| 1:05.2 | church and politics. |
| 1:07.0 | Well I have to tell you in all my years as a pastor there is no single issue that has caused more controversy, more hard |
| 1:15.5 | feelings, more anger, or more Christians mad at one another or mad at me than |
| 1:22.4 | the issue we're going to talk about. |
| 1:24.0 | We talk about the church and politics. |
| 1:27.0 | As a very young, naive pastor many, many years ago, |
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