Christians Lost the Culture War, and Why That's a Good Thing - w/ Rick McKinley

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

How the metaphor of exile helps the American church rediscover its identity, purpose, and practices for a polarized and post-Christian culture. Mike Erre is joined by Rick McKinley—pastor, author, and co-creator of Advent Conspiracy—to explore themes from Rick’s book, Faith for This Moment: Navigating a Polarized World as the People of God. Together, they discuss how exile offers a hopeful biblical framework for living faithfully as Christians in a divided and shifting cultural landscape.

Key Takeaways:
• A Modern Exile Paradigm – Understanding exile as a metaphor for the American church's loss of place, influence, and clarity in a polarized culture.
• Three Responses to Exile – The options of "baptizing" culture, "burning it down," or embracing a posture of “bless and resist” as seen through Daniel, Jeremiah, and Jesus.
• The Power of Discernment – Recognizing the need to go beyond behavior modification and embrace discernment informed by scripture, story, and the Spirit.
• Five Prophetic Practices – Hospitality, generosity, vocation, celebration/Sabbath, and obedience to Word and Spirit as counter-cultural rhythms that shape Christian identity and integrity.
• Reclaiming the Christian Story – Why knowing and living out the biblical narrative offers resilience and imagination in uncertain times.

Guest Highlights:
Rick McKinley – Founding pastor of Imago Dei in Portland, Oregon, and co-author of the Advent Conspiracy movement. Rick shares insights from his latest book and his church’s tangible expressions of "blessing and resisting," including courageous generosity and the faith community’s engagement in citywide foster care reform.

Resources Mentioned:
• Faith for This Moment by Rick McKinley – Amazon
• The Bible Project – bibleproject.com
• Advent Conspiracy – adventconspiracy.org
• Embrace Oregon – everychildoregon.org

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Mike here. Welcome to the Vox podcast. So glad that you are tuning in and so grateful to be a small part of your life.
0:24.7	This may be the last full podcast of 2018. And what a way to go out. Then with my friend Rick McKinley,
0:32.6	Rick McKinley, pastor in Portland. Say hello? Hey. He's a pastor, but so much more.
0:39.8	He pastors a church called Amago Day, or like I like to call it Amago D.
0:47.9	Nothing.
0:48.6	Was that like a beastie voice?
0:50.5	No, that was just, that was an attempt to be funny.
0:57.9	And one of the creators of something called Advent conspiracy, which is appropriate this time of year, and dude, when I was at a church
1:04.8	called Rock Harbor, and that thing came out, I mean, that, that was, that was some really powerful stuff because that was all new.
1:12.9	Like, instead of the traditional Advent, it was way more, um, subversive. And so anyway,
1:19.4	great, great, great, great. And, uh, and he's just written a book. And how many, what number of books
1:25.0	is this?
1:29.8	Five by myself.
1:32.6	And then we did the Advent conspiracy one.
1:34.4	So there were three authors on that.
1:35.2	Nice.
1:35.9	All right.
1:37.0	So we'll call it five and a half.
1:39.6	Yeah, five in the one third.
1:43.1	Rick is in Portland, one of my favorite cities. He's one of my favorite people. And so I'm stoked to have him. We've been friends for a while now. We both have special needs kids. And so we're both very handsome. Needless to say, Rick, describe right now where you are sitting.
2:04.2	Describe the digs right now.
2:07.5	I am sitting in my office, which was created by whoever built this church,
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