How Can You Find a Healthy Balance in Politics This Year?
Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Politics can be a divisive subject. Out of fear, some pastors completely avoid the topic from their pulpits.
On this episode of “The Elephant in the Room” series, I discuss how a church can find a healthy balance of discussing political issues without forsaking the Gospel. I have a conversation with Gary Hamrick, pastor of Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia, who found himself in the middle of the cultural and political battle without going to look for it. The battle showed up at his front door.
He’s an example of a godly man who’s stood up and fought for truth, without worrying about what the consequences might be.
I hope this conversation encourages you to stand for truth—and exercise your freedom to vote.
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to politics, should the church engage or not engage? |
| 0:04.8 | How do you talk about it in a healthy way from the pulpit? |
| 0:07.3 | And today's guest is going to help us understand how he engages his congregation |
| 0:12.0 | in a healthy way without compromising the Gospel of Jesus Christ. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith |
| 0:23.3 | and a compromising culture. Well, welcome back to Fearless. As you can see, if you're watching on on YouTube I am here in my kitchen in Fort Myers Florida |
| 0:46.3 | I'm not up in North Carolina recording this because in a couple weeks I do have a baby coming. |
| 0:53.8 | We're expecting if you've been following on Instagram or some other episodes. |
| 0:58.0 | And that is just really hard to believe that that's just a few weeks away |
| 1:01.5 | because I think I only have bought like two or three |
| 1:04.3 | outfits I don't have a crib I don't have a stroller and I don't have a car seat so I got |
| 1:09.0 | some shopping to do in the next couple weeks so that's hard to believe that's around the corner, |
| 1:13.2 | but it's also hard to believe that next week |
| 1:15.5 | are midterm elections. |
| 1:17.8 | And how we can think that we're already to this point |
| 1:21.8 | is wild, because we all can remember 2020 and if you go back to |
| 1:28.4 | 20 of just that |
| 1:35.0 | incredible year, between the pandemic and the lockdown, the George Floyd, and all the Black Lives Matter, |
| 1:40.0 | the riots that had happened throughout that summer. |
| 1:43.0 | It was a wild year and we were exhausted. |
| 1:46.0 | I think it was like kind of a scene from a movie, |
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