Is the Gospel Political? (with Patrick Schreiner)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Is the message of the gospel and the Kingdom inherently political messages? If so, what does that mean? How is the Christian message both politically and culturally subversive and submissive to government at the same time? What does it mean for the church to be subversive in today’s polarized culture? We’ll answer these questions and more with our guest Patrick Schreiner, and his new book, Political Gospel: Public Witness in a Politically Crazy World.Patrick Schreiner is the Director of the R...

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0:00.0	Is the message of the gospel in the kingdom inherently a political message?
0:07.0	If so, what does that mean?
0:09.0	What does it mean for the church to be subversive in today's polarized culture.
0:13.4	How is the Christian message both political and culturally
0:15.6	subversive and submissive to government at the same time?
0:20.0	Let's answer these questions and more
0:21.1	with our guest Patrick Schreiner and his new book entitled
0:23.8	the Political Gospel.
0:25.7	I'm your host Scott Ray.
0:27.0	And I'm your co-host, Sean McDow.
0:28.6	This is ThinkBiblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
0:32.4	Patrick welcomes great to have you with us. School of Theology at Biola University.
0:32.5	Patrick, welcome it's great to have you with us.
0:35.1	Good to be with you guys.
0:35.9	I'm looking forward to the conversation.
0:37.3	So tell us what motivated you to write on this subject,
0:40.6	particularly at this time? Yeah, so I started researching this book when it felt like we were in a lot of political turmoil.
0:48.0	You know, you had racial tension in the U.S.
0:50.0	Donald Trump was elected and I think a lot of people were looking at the church and just seeing a lot of division within the church around how to speak about these issues and I heard from a lot of pastors honestly that people are leaving their church because of politics
1:06.5	they either weren't political enough or they were too political and it came ultimately
1:11.8	down to you, the concept of political discipleship.
1:16.2	And what I mean by that is simply trying to follow Jesus in every part of our life,
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