Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: Eugene Cho’s Guide to Political Conversations

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Our For the Love of Faith Icons series is going strong, and this week we’re diving into an issue we’ve probably all struggled with: how to act like a Christian when we’re riled up about our political views. Without even knowing it, each of us has likely been guilty of having the “I’m-right-and-everybody-who-doesn’t-agree-with-me-is-crazy” attitude when it comes to politics. And today, we’re here to get a little help on how we can engage in politics with civility and openness not only as believers, but as good citizens in general. Eugene Cho, the founder of Quest Church and the non-profit One Day’s Wages, gives his pastoral view on how, if we can keep loving God and loving others as our guiding principles, we’ll be better equipped to engage in civil and productive conversations (and PS: it won’t send us spiraling down to political/moral ruin to listen to a contrary opinion). Cho emphasizes that when we surround ourselves with people who don’t look, think, feel, or vote like us, we are following Jesus’ commandment to “love our neighbor.” And it matters how we engage, Cho reminds us, because “politics matter. Because politics inform policies that impact real human people created in the image of God.”

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to crowds, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey everybody, it is Jen Hatmaker here.
0:24.2	I am your delighted host of The For the Love Podcast and I'm super glad you're here today.
0:29.4	Thanks for downloading, thanks for listening and being an awesome loyal podcast person.
0:38.3	Right now we are in a series called For the Love of Faith Icons and we have been talking
0:44.7	to leaders in faith spaces who have had their hand at this a long time.
0:49.8	They've got decades under their belt.
0:53.0	They have been in service for longer than a minute and just have a lot to teach us and
0:59.8	to show us that there's a lot of interesting challenge inside these conversations.
1:04.6	And today, woo, like just whoa, okay.
1:09.8	We are just diving right into the thick of things because we are talking about how on earth,
1:17.4	you and me, just like regular human people, weighed through the murky waters of politics
1:23.0	this year.
1:24.0	We are going there.
1:25.5	Like we go straight there and I'm telling you that I don't know if we could have a better
1:29.8	guide than the one we have on the show today.
1:32.5	You're going to be really glad that you're listening to this.
1:34.1	I'll tell you that right now.
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