Exile as Political Identity : Insights from Acts on Allegiance and Hope (Exile Series)

Voxology

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Explore how embracing an exile identity reshapes Christian allegiance, hope, and posture toward government. Mike and Tim delve into lessons from the Book of Acts on how redefining our political identity as exiles can help us navigate the partisan landscape with a focus on the Kingdom of God.

Key Takeaways: • Redefining Political Allegiance – Understanding how adopting an exile identity shifts our primary allegiance from partisan politics to the Kingdom of God. • Reconfiguring Hope – Discussing how our hope is not rooted in political outcomes but in Jesus and His mission. • Submission and Subversion – Exploring the tension between submitting to governing authorities and subverting the powers through a Kingdom-focused life. • Insights from Acts – Learning from early Christians on navigating political powers and maintaining faithfulness. • Practical Exile Living – Practical ways to live out the exile identity in today's politicized world.

Resources Mentioned: • The Book of Acts – Bible Gateway – Acts • Shane Claiborne's Teachings – shaneclaiborne.com • Center for Action and Contemplation (Richard Rohr's Teachings) – cac.org

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0:00.0	Hi, friends, happy new year.
0:17.0	Mike and Tim, welcome to 2025. We made it. We're here. It's happening. New Year's Day was interesting as we had these kind of coordinated. I don't know if they're coordinated, but attacks. It was like, what? Is this? I mean, day.
0:36.6	Starting a new year off. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then Tim,
0:42.4	my friend Tim Stafford, was was building a fence yesterday. What do you do if you're a man who's
0:49.6	overwhelmed, has too many things to do and not enough time to do it.
0:54.8	What does a man do in that scenario?
0:56.9	He decides to replace his fence.
0:59.3	Well, we don't have a fence.
1:00.5	Our house is on the corner.
1:02.9	No, and there's no fence around the entire house.
1:05.6	So it's completely just kind of open and exposed.
1:08.4	Yeah.
1:09.5	Our dog has nowhere to go.
1:12.7	So we're building a fence. I'm trying to do it because these tariffs might make lumber costs skyrocket so I figured this is the last window I have for
1:20.6	maybe for four years okay so we're just going to give it a whirl all right learn as you yeah, I mean, you just put how to build a fence on YouTube and you're fine.
1:32.1	And how many pounds of concrete were you dealing with yesterday, my friend?
1:35.1	800.
1:36.4	800.
1:38.2	Dude, look at you go.
1:39.8	So Tim Stafford, January, today's the third.
1:43.6	So on January 2nd, how much did you get done?
1:48.2	I got all, it's raining today.
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