When the President Crashes your Church Service

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jemar and Tyler are back for a bonus episode to discuss the controversial visit of President Trump to Pastor’s David Platt’s McLean Bible Church on Sunday for prayer. Was it unwise? Was it standard operating procedure? How do Black Christians perceive these situations? How can we learn from incidents like this as we work through our own relationship with people in power? Tune in for a Black Christian perspective on this scenario. https://www.mcleanbible.org/prayer-president https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/trump-david-platt-prayer-pastors.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.
0:09.2	Greetings and God bless, welcome to another episode of Past the Mic.
0:16.0	Dynamic Voices for a Diverse Church, powered by The Witness, a Black Christian collective.
0:21.0	I'm your host Tyler Burns.
0:22.0	You can follow me on
0:23.4	Twitter at Burns 23 follow at your own risk and joining me as always is the
0:28.1	president of the witness he is back y'all the man the myth the legend the
0:32.3	best-selling author Mr Blue Check verified himself.
0:35.0	Jamar Tisbee was going on, brother.
0:37.0	Man, y'all been putting out some fire episodes in my absence.
0:40.0	I need to just step back and let y'all keep cooking.
0:43.0	If you haven't listened, go back and listen to the past couple of episodes of
0:46.6	past the mic.
0:47.8	Tyler always holds it down.
0:48.9	It almost doesn't matter who is on the mic with him.
0:51.6	That's honestly why I get on the mic with you.
0:54.0	You just make me sound good.
0:56.0	Look, I appreciate it, man. And you know, the truth is I actually wanted to give you more time away,
1:01.0	but some stuff went down over this weekend so we had to get in the in the
1:05.1	booth and record this emergency episode we had to do it so obviously you guys
1:10.8	know by now if you've been following Twitter, if you've been following Christian evangelical Twitter, you know it's been hot people been talking about a lot of different things that are going on, but something happened over the weekend.
1:21.0	There was a tragic shooting in Virginia Beach that claimed 12 lives and we
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