How Should Christians Handle Political Differences?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
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🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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When was the last time you had a political discussion with another believer? (Did it go well?)
In this episode of “12 Truths & A Lie,” Pastor J.D. teaches about the four myths Americans believe about politics-myths that are just as active inside the church as outside it. These four myths tend to turn political discussions into raging arguments, so it’s important that we recognize them and learn to avoid them.
You’ll learn how to navigate political differences without compromising your convictions, setting your hope not on the stars and stripes of our flag, but in the scars and stripes of our Savior.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything where Pastor J.D. Greer answers your questions. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Matt Love, and we have got a bonus episode for you this week. So go ahead and check this out. |
| 0:32.6 | So in this episode, we're going to consider the question of how should Christians handle political |
| 0:38.7 | differences. |
| 0:39.6 | And I know that's a thorny issue, and it's very personal to some of you in the book, 12 |
| 0:43.7 | truths and a lie. |
| 0:44.5 | We actually take a whole chapter and kind of plunge through this. |
| 0:46.9 | What do we have to agree on? |
| 0:48.4 | Where should we allow each other liberty? |
| 0:49.9 | And how do we handle these kind of differences? |
| 0:52.0 | In this episode, I want to give you, as I have in other episodes, just some ways that you can think about this that are complementary to what we're going to discuss in the chapter. I want to start right now by pointing out that in ancient Israel, one of the words that the Israelites used for God was Jehovah Nisi, which translates literally as the Lord is my flag. The Lord is my |
| 1:14.0 | banner that I marched behind. As Christians, I think when we approach this question, it's important |
| 1:18.6 | to remember that we live as strangers and exiles in this country. We're not really in the truest |
| 1:25.6 | sense of the word citizen. We are, I mean, United States citizen, but we're not truly citizens here. |
| 1:30.9 | We belong to it. |
| 1:32.0 | We participate in it. |
| 1:33.0 | That means getting involved in politics, but it means I'd never truly consider this my home. |
| 1:39.3 | The primary flag that I rally behind is not Republican or Democrat or libertarian or Green Party, |
| 1:45.8 | Constitution Party, Independent, or anything else. You might think certain candidates or even a |
| 1:50.9 | certain party does a better job in certain situations. You might even think that they stand |
| 1:55.6 | for a lot more moral things than the other candidate does. But ultimately, the point is, |
| 2:00.2 | ultimately, we're not the party of the donkey or the elephant. We're the people of the lamb. The Lord Jehovah Nisi. He's my banner. He's my flag. He's the one I most identify with. What I want to do in this episode is show you another time in Jesus' life where he taught the same thing, leading up to his trial and his crucifixion. When the soldiers came to take Jesus' prisoner in the Garden of Gisemite, Peter pulls out |
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