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Your eyes on the times, you walk ready to speak up, but with so many problems, you're

exhausted trying to keep up.

This is the church politics podcast where you can get political commentary from a biblical worldview.

We're not trying to be conservative or progressive.

We're trying to be Christian in the public square.

And I'm black as heaven.

I'm made in God's image.

Nobody can change my settings.

Amen, cut off my knees and put it into my search.

It's easy to sell your soul and you don't know what it's worth.

Greetings everybody. Welcome to the church politics podcast. This is Pastor Chris Butler, and I want to welcome you to a very special piece of premium content created just for you, our Patreon support.

This chat is so exciting to us that we are going to release this early to our patrons,

but then later we are going to release it on the general podcast.

But if you're listening to this on the regular podcast channel,

I want to encourage you to go to patreon.com slash church politics

or click the link in the show notes and become a financial supporter of the podcast at any

amount. Our patrons get lots of extra content that's not released at all on the general

podcast channel and even get to help create some of the content by asking questions of us and of our guest, which we have a very special guest

today. So you might know if you're a church politics podcast, listener, that there is a little

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