Episode 5: On Political Disagreements in the Church

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We live in politically contentious times. Jonathan Leeman sat down with Mark Dever to chat about how to pastor people faithfully amidst political disagreement.

SHOW NOTES:

– March us through how you pastored through the most contentious election in recent memory. (0:40)

– How preaching builds unity amidst political disagreement. (6:00)

– On the importance of upholding Christian liberty amidst personal, political disagreement (7:45)

– How can we discern “straight-line” issues from “jagged-line” issues? How do we know when to stay silent in order not to improperly bind consciences? (13:00)

– Can we sin by not addressing injustice when we should? (17:30)

– Do you address politically contentious members directly? (22:00)

– Lightning round of questions on the topic. (22:45)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to this edition of Nine Marks and Pastors Talk.
0:05.9	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches.
0:12.1	Learn more at nine marks.org.
0:14.0	This is Jonathan Lehman. I'm here with Mark Devere.
0:16.6	Yo, Jonathan.
0:17.9	Anything you want to say about yourself? Friendly greeting?
0:20.1	Not particularly, brother. You don't want to greet the listeners? Hello, friends. Anything you want to say about yourself? Friendly greeting? Not particularly, brother.
0:22.2	You don't want to greet the listeners?
0:23.5	Hello, friends.
0:24.5	There we go.
0:25.4	Hey, and thank you for the encouragement we've had for these podcasts.
0:27.9	I think Jonathan and I are both a little surprised.
0:30.2	Surprised and I was a confident, Mom, you were the only one listening, but apparently not.
0:34.5	Your mom and mine.
0:35.6	She loves to hear the sound of my voice.
0:49.7	We're in March of 2017, which means our church, city, country has just walked through one of the more contentious elections in living memory.
0:52.0	Or Trumpphobia.
0:53.1	Oh, brother.
0:54.1	Yes.
0:54.6	I mean, even the only one I can go back to quickly as a devotee of political conventions since I was
1:01.6	seven years old was 1972 McGovern Nixon.
1:05.4	You were 12.
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