Christians and Elections . . . What Do We Do?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris tackle tough questions from BreakPoint listeners about the upcoming election and the role of Christians in a democracy. The first deals with a controversial article by Christian writer and thinker David French entitled, "Do Pro-Lifers Who Reject Trump Have Blood on Their Hands?"
How much do national and local elections truly matter? What impact do they have on our daily lives? Is it OK for Christians to sit an election out, or is it imperative that we vote, no matter how difficult the choices? What about a constitutional amendment for Life? Does how Jesus lived among us give any guidance?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm Shane Morris, here with John Stone Street in our new |
| 0:05.7 | Q&A edition, answering the questions that we get from you, our readers, and our listeners. |
| 0:10.9 | To ask a question, just hit us up on social media or shoot us an email at Ask the Colson |
| 0:15.6 | Center at colsoncenter.org. John, we've got a... Did you just say hit us up? I think you just said hit us up. |
| 0:21.3 | Did I say hit us up? Is that right? I've spent, you said hit us up on social media. That's pretty |
| 0:25.0 | great. Yeah, yeah. It's not a boomer phrase. It's a gen X phrase. And I've spent enough time around |
| 0:28.9 | you that I've picked up that kind of stuff. And you know, I am a proud Gen Xers, you know, people spend a lot of time talking about the difference between generations, and it's really this boomer versus millennial sort of thing. But then in the middle |
| 0:42.2 | are Gen Xers. And I'm not sure we've ever contributed a single thing to the good of the world, |
| 0:48.0 | have we? I'm trying to think what it is. Michael Jordan, maybe. Well, you guys gave us nickel |
| 0:51.7 | back. And every... |
| 0:54.8 | That's all the reason. |
| 0:56.3 | You know, there was a book written years ago, Shane, and I'm not making this up. |
| 0:59.7 | It was one of those kind of, you know, cool Christian authors, you know, in previous generations |
| 1:04.8 | that wrote literally a book that said Gen X will save the world. |
| 1:08.9 | And it was just the most ridiculous argument ever and observably not |
| 1:14.2 | true. Yeah, I mean, it was hard that somebody actually put that book proposal together and a publisher |
| 1:20.6 | actually was like, hmm, this could work. I mean, I'm just trying to figure out that whole process |
| 1:25.4 | because the thesis itself is really |
| 1:27.8 | indefensible. |
| 1:28.6 | And I say that as a Gen Xer. |
| 1:30.3 | Generation Shrek is not going to save the world. |
| 1:32.6 | I call it Generation Shrek because every joke in Shrek, every pop culture reference |
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