How Should Christians Bring Their Faith into the Voting Booth?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1093 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. What is Christian Nationalism?
2. How does our Christian faith affect our voting?
3. When did Jesus know that he was the Messiah?
4. Why does God seem different in the Old and New Testament?
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| 0:00.0 | How should Christians bring their faith into the voting booth? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:22.7 | You can call us right now with your question. |
| 0:24.7 | Here's our phone number. |
| 0:25.5 | It's 8333 The Core. |
| 0:27.5 | That's 1, 833-843-243-2673. |
| 0:31.9 | You can also feel free to leave us a voicemail at that number. |
| 0:34.9 | And if you'd like to email us your question, |
| 0:37.0 | you can write to us at Questions at that number. And if you'd like to email us your question, you can write to us at |
| 0:37.9 | Questions at CoreChristianity.com. First up today, let's go to a call from Andrea from New Orleans. |
| 0:45.1 | What's your question for us, Andrea? |
| 0:48.0 | Hey, Pastor Adrian and Bill. The other day I heard you guys answering a question about Christian |
| 0:53.0 | nationalism. I myself am a Christian, |
| 0:55.5 | but I still don't really understand what that means. Can you help explain it to me? |
| 1:01.2 | Hey, Andrea. Thank you for listening to the broadcast. You know, I mean, so many people |
| 1:08.4 | have defined this in different ways. I think different people have, you people have a different idea in their mind of what Christian nationalism is. For some people, I think when they use that phrase, they just mean I'm a Christian and I believe that my faith should impact the way I engage with broader society. And, you know, I'm patriotic. I love where I live. I'm proud of that. |
| 1:29.8 | And I don't think that there's anything wrong with that per se. You know, sometimes the phrase is |
| 1:34.5 | used in almost as a, you know, as a criticism or as an attack on that. And I don't think that that's |
| 1:43.7 | the issue. |
| 1:46.0 | The question really is, you know, what is it that Christ is called the church to? |
| 1:50.9 | And one of the concerns that I have when I hear, you know, people talking about Christian nationalism, |
| 1:55.4 | it does seem to me that there are many who sort of adopt that and take that to mean it's the church's job |
| 2:02.6 | to transform the civil institutions of this world. |
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