Who do people in these positions that are going to do things that are sort of in line with your interests and values and who isn't?

But then also pray, pray that the person who is elected would make wise choices and that the people

who are selected for those jobs would serve for the right reasons.

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Welcome to Outstanding where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and the ideas that shape us.

Once again, I'm your tour guide Joseph back home.

So glad that you have joined us again for another exercise in taking every thought captive

to the obedience of Christ.

And since it's election season, we are doing that exercise

and related to all of the election-related conversations and topics that we are presented with,

whether it's tax policy or border policy, whatever these things are. We know we're constantly facing

spin and we're facing narrative and our job as Christians is to try to

understand what the truth of the matter is.

So how do we take every thought captive

to the obedience of Christ?

And today we're going to do that about an unusual topic.

I think it's one I'm looking forward to.

We're going to talk about the deep state.

Is there a Christian way to think about the deep state?

That's our exercise today.

You probably heard the term because a lot of people blame many of our nation's

problems on it. But what is it? Is it even real? Is the deep state a bogeyman created by the paranoid to give them a target for

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