Winning and Losing Political Elections

Thinking Fellows

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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High stakes and emotions regarding national politics produce situations Christians must meaningfully and thoughtfully navigate. Christians are embodied and specifically located creatures with vocations that demand political conciseness and often involvement. Yet these political situations and outcomes are not the object or sum of the faith. This episode explores the consequences of winning and losing elections and how Christian involvement and thought distinguish between faith and vocation so that we do not trust in princes but in Christ while faithfully serving our neighbors.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Thinking Fellows.
0:22.6	I'm Adam.
0:23.3	I'm joined by Scott and Bruce.
0:26.5	Caleb has left us for the day.
0:29.8	I don't even know where he is.
0:31.6	He's going to Texas to work on an upgrade to the podcasting system with our creative director, Doug,
0:41.0	as what needs to be moving to a new, I don't know, some thingy-dinging,
0:46.7	but do the recording stuff you bob on.
0:49.8	Oh, the video stuff, ringside, river side.
0:53.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:53.8	It's nice. Well, Caleb's gone for the week,, ringside, river side. Yeah, yeah. Nice.
0:54.4	Well, Caleb's gone for the week, so when the boys away, the old men will play.
1:01.7	Yeah.
1:02.3	We don't know exactly when this will drop.
1:04.4	I don't even know when our show does drop in the week.
1:08.1	I think it's Wednesday or Thursday, but we're recording on a Tuesday,
1:12.8	or no, on a Monday, the day before America's national election. So we thought we'd pose the
1:19.1	question or address the question, what to do if your candidate didn't win. Or if they win, I guess,
1:27.9	too, right?
1:30.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:37.1	But we're going to have to be delicate here as we are, because, you know, we're all so politically correct.
1:37.7	We're going to try to not get into the fringes, but try to keep the conversation.
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