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The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown

Election 2016: Prepared to Be Offended

The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown

Sandals Church

Spirituality, Christianity, Deconstruction, Religion & Spirituality, Culture, Faith

4.9799 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

How should Christians exercise our right to vote? Is choosing not to vote, or voting to legalize marijuana, a sin? Can someone be a true follower of Jesus and get into politics as a career? And should Christians all agree on who we elect for president? In this special episode, Pastor Matt Brown offers real answers to our tough questions about politics and voting.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are not representative of Sample's Church,

0:02.5

the Southern Baptist Convention, or any of our parents.

0:04.0

If any of these views make you think about not going to church, loving Jesus,

0:05.7

or giving to Sample's Church, let's just turn this off now.

0:07.3

I'm Pastor Matt Brown, and I approve this message.

0:39.0

I'm Pastor Matt Brown, and I approve this message. Well, hey, everybody, prepare to be offended. It's time for a special bonus episode of the debrief from your friends here at Sandals Church, where today we will be bringing in real answers from Pastor Matt Brown to your

0:43.7

tough questions about politics and voting. I am your friendly pal, Justin Pardee, sitting here with

0:48.9

my good old debrief friends. Yeah, I'm Stephanie Keene. And I'm P&B. All right, holding it down.

0:55.0

All right, Pastor Matt, we've got a lot of questions that have come in about politics and voting.

0:59.5

And we're going to jump right into those in a second. Here's a couple of things. For those of you guys that

1:05.0

are listening, man, thank you so much for sending in all of your questions. We got a whole bunch of them, and they were awesome.

1:11.3

And we basically did our best to compile as many of them as possible,

1:15.1

especially ones that were similar to one another and kind of bring them all together.

1:18.4

So our hope is that every single one of you who wrote in a question, for the most part,

1:23.6

we think we're touching on almost all those topics.

1:25.9

So if we missed yours, we're so sorry,

1:27.6

but we did the best that we could. And also our attempts to not make this a four-hour-long

1:32.5

episode. So we're excited about that. Before we jump into the questions, Pastor Matt, let's go for

1:37.8

maybe a state of the union. You got any opening thoughts before we jump into these questions?

1:43.8

Just that I'm nervous.

1:45.8

So are we do.

1:46.8

Yeah.

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