Ep 1311 | Did John Piper Just Call for Open Borders? X Controversy Explained
Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Blaze Podcast Network
4.8 • 25.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. So if you are watching this, you can see that the setting has changed. I'm at my home. Maybe you're listening. You can tell it sounds a little bit different. I am recording this Monday morning a little addendum to today's episode, the rest of which was actually recorded at the end of last week. So I've got a couple things to say |
| 0:21.5 | in light of the happenings of the past few days. Number one, we will be talking about Iran, |
| 0:27.4 | everything going on there, all the considerations we should have as Christians, especially |
| 0:32.0 | in light of our eschatology or belief about the end times. Also the tragic events in Austin, |
| 0:37.0 | Texas, how those two things |
| 0:38.4 | are possibly connected. So we'll be discussing all of that on Wednesday. I also just wanted to |
| 0:45.0 | add some clarity to the subject that we're about to discuss John Piper's post with the immigration |
| 0:50.0 | related Bible verse. So from all of the information that's come out over the past few days, |
| 0:56.3 | it does look like this was not an intentional commentary on the news cycle or a reaction |
| 1:03.3 | to Trump's State of the Union address. In fact, John Piper seems to post this verse every year |
| 1:10.5 | in accordance with his Bible reading plan. |
| 1:13.2 | Now, you could say that there should have been more consideration about the timing |
| 1:16.8 | in light of recent events and all of that, but this was not an intentional insertion |
| 1:21.7 | of his opinion about immigration. |
| 1:24.6 | However, the rest of the commentary that we give, the response that we give to |
| 1:28.7 | those who do try to wield this verse to make some kind of liberal immigration point is very |
| 1:33.5 | relevant, very necessary will be helpful to you as you're navigating these conversations. |
| 1:37.7 | And the rest of the episode is also extremely prescient last week. Of course, we didn't know |
| 1:43.7 | everything that would be going on in |
| 1:45.3 | Iran. Yet this episode is about the position that America is in and how we should be |
| 1:51.4 | thinking about that and how Christianity plays such a key role in who we are and how we should |
| 1:58.2 | think about our national identity and our place in the world. |
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