As political questions intrude on the daily life of more and more Christians, congregants

turn to their pastors for help and for guidance. Sadly, many pastors either respond to these questions

in ways that are not relevant to church life, or they give their congregations answers that are progressive and unbiblical.

Why are pastors so bad at answering political questions and what can be done about it? Tune in now. All right, gentlemen, welcome back.

Welcome.

Getting started a little early today, so excited to be here and jump right into it.

Welcome to those of you who are joining us live and excited to have you all along for the discussion as well.

Today we are indeed talking about the question of pastors,

political messaging, how pastors should help their congregants think through political questions

and really at the bottom of, at the end of the day, tipping our hand here saying, we think

pastors are pretty bad at this.

So don't want to bury the lead. We think there's a lot of room to grow here in this area.

Right. So a lot of what we're going to hear in the typical mainstream churches,

evangelical churches is pastors should stay out of politics, right? The pulpit is no place for politics.

It's even technically illegal for a 501c3,

which most churches are, to officially endorse a candidate.

That doesn't mean the pastor can't have his personal recommendation,

but if the church comes and says this is the official recommendation of X church on X street,

that technically violates tax law so

there's even in our legal black churches do all the time I am aware of this

yep well for thee not for yeah 100% I'll Sharpton what's his name

Creflow trillion a dollar yep yep yep yep my point is it's kind of pre-baked into the pie in the society that we live in, that

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