meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
FLF, LLC

What Constitutes “Doing Good” in Politics and Public Policy [God, Law, and Liberty]

FLF, LLC

FLF, LLC

News

4.7957 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In his discussion of the ruler’s function, Peter tells persecuted Christians to “do good.” Is that limited to doing good deeds, or can his exhortation apply to how one does politics and drafts legislation? David says it includes the latter and gives real life examples from the last few years to demonstrate what the “good” is and isn’t in relation to a Biblical anthropology.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Thank you for joining us for another episode of God, Law, and Liberty with David Fowler,

0:08.0

President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.

0:11.0

Every week, we are putting culture, politics, and law on a collision

0:15.4

course with the truth of God's word. And now here's David.

0:21.8

Thank you for joining me for today's episode of God, Law, and Liberty.

0:28.0

And today we're going to answer the question, or try to answer the question, what is doing good in relation to law and in the

0:37.4

sphere of politics? I begin to answer that question by making this statement.

0:43.6

If Christianity is restoring the image of God in a person by the indwelling of Christ,

0:50.5

who's the image of God, And what does that mean in relation to law

0:56.0

and the exhortation of Peter in his first letter

0:59.0

that in the context of discussing rulers, he says, do good.

1:05.0

What I hope to do today is to show how we think about the answer to that question

1:10.0

will help us think more clearly about our charge to disciple the nations,

1:15.0

which should help us perhaps better understand the conversation about Christian nationalism

1:20.0

and what a Christianized nation would be. But before I get into that I want to clarify

1:26.3

something I said in the last episode two weeks ago, took off for July the 4th,

1:31.3

hope you survived the absence of the podcast. But I mentioned in that

1:38.6

episode or I talked about in that

1:45.0

the episodes of beauty. For a quick refresher on the meaning of that word,

1:46.0

metaphysics is an inquiring into,

1:50.0

or an inquiry into the nature of a thing, what it is, which then informs our understanding

1:57.5

of what we're to do with that thing.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FLF, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FLF, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.