Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matt Brown.

The podcast where pastor and author Matt Brown

debriefs your questions about Christianity and current issues shaping our culture.

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So there have been a lot of talks in the news recently about spy balloons.

Oh, wow.

And surveillance drones flying over both the U.S. and China.

And it seems like the relationship between the U.S. and China is worsening with a looming threat of war. How should Christians think about a conflict like this?

Yeah. So I think that our politicians are demonstrating on both sides that they're human. And there just seems to be all around the world this inability to bring things down. I feel like we do this left and right,

black and white, and now we're doing it, America, China, America, Russia. There's no, there's no sense

that we need to de-escalate. And so we've lost that heart amongst our politicians, because I think

we've lost that heart amongst our people.

And so it's how do we bring down the rhetoric? How do we reasonably work through and talk through

difficult issues with where we disagree? And this is why it's so important for us as Christians

to learn to be reasonable. So one of my favorite scriptures I read a couple weeks ago was,

I pray that you may be free from

unreasonable men.

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