Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.

I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn.

We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

And restoration for the heart.

Thank you for joining us.

Let's get this conversation started.

Rachel, I'm just going to say it right from the beginning.

I wish we didn't have to do this podcast. I really wish we were in a different world, which is in so many ways, kind of what I've attempted to do even over the last few days. Like, I'm not watching the news. I'm not trying to read about

whether Trump has conceded whether or not there were lawsuits. So this is Thursday. So because of

the evolving insanity of our world,

I want folks to know that we know what we know, and it's Thursday.

And it could change so radically by Friday or whenever this is broadcast.

So as we step into this, I'll just say, we are living something that if it had been put on

West Wing or House of Cards or whatever, we wouldn't believe that there could ever be a

narrative like this operating. And again, that's part of my idolatry presumption.

And in many ways, my deep, well, illusions are being trampled. And there's something very

potentially redemptive. But what we want to do is to again

come back to this question of what does a deep sense of wanting to live out the kingdom of God

bring for us individually, corporately, and as the community of God, how are we meant to be

and to live in this current Thursday, let alone whatever comes in the next few days?

So let's go back to what we covered in our last conversation and just to say, look, we are living right now in a profoundly polarized, divided era that's only getting worse.

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