Vote for the Best Possible Candidate
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Owen Strachan discusses how Christians should approach politics and voting. He emphasizes the privilege of political participation and the need for Christians to use their agency to choose the best possible candidate or policy. Strachan also highlights the gray areas and complexities of politics, urging Christians to seek wisdom from the Holy Spirit. He reminds listeners to remember their eschatology and the ultimate hope they have in Jesus, rather than falling into fear-based paradigms or naive idealism.
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| 0:00.0 | It's one of the toughest questions there is in the Christian faith. |
| 0:13.7 | How should Christians vote? |
| 0:16.5 | For about a decade now, Christians have battled, debated, discussed, conversed, broke fellowship, |
| 0:25.3 | reunited, and many other things around the subject of politics. |
| 0:30.1 | This is true throughout the West. |
| 0:32.3 | This is true in the UK with different political questions, Brexit and other matters. |
| 0:36.8 | This is true, certainly in America |
| 0:38.3 | with regard to the phenomenon of Donald Trump, for example, in Republican and conservative circles |
| 0:43.5 | and how he should be engaged. And yes, we are now close into a decade of discussing this man |
| 0:50.1 | and whether we should support him or whether we should not support him or how we can support him or what he said recently. |
| 0:56.3 | And a lot of us, I think, are freshly aware of the fact that we need to think well about these matters. |
| 1:04.3 | How should Christians vote? |
| 1:06.7 | Welcome to Grace and Truth. |
| 1:07.6 | My name is Owen Strand. |
| 1:08.5 | I am not going to tell you the one vote you |
| 1:11.6 | must undertake or else you are a terrible person and you will be shut out of the heavenly |
| 1:17.5 | gates at the end of your life. That is not the stance I'm going to take in this episode. So everybody |
| 1:21.6 | just take a deep breath. You can put your hands like this if you want. Don't do anything Eastern |
| 1:27.2 | in your mind. But if you need some Don't do anything Eastern in your mind. |
| 1:28.1 | But if you need some breathing exercises on these matters, many of us, I'm guessing, do we need to relax a little bit and just calm down. |
| 1:36.4 | I think they used to say simmer, simmer down a little bit. |
| 1:38.8 | We used to say that in high school about 25 years ago. |
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