1. # 35 -- Re “and”…..so the question is still open, i.e., ‘where do Christians become informed on political items that impact our lives, our culture, and our families. ‘Where’ /’How’ do Christians discuss/learn the appropriate Biblical-based responses? Is failure to address/discuss cultural/political issues from a Biblical perspective a failure of Christian stewardship? Clearly be passive yield no impact for Christ. 2. #36 a. Is meekness/humility incompatible with assertiveness? No one gave away more than Jesus nor was more lowly/humble. Yet he was an indisputable leader and teacher of 12 unlikely/differing persons. b. Much of the cooperate world, based on my 50+yr of global Corporate and Academic experience is as you say, but not all. It is a false narrative to state a humble person cannot be a powerful leader/influencer in today's world. Later in the video there seems to be agreement to this premise. c. ‘Dying out to self’ …..where are those Christians that exemplify this quality? I surely did not exemplify this in most of my life and now, I keep looking back and am seeking the ‘why’. ? d. Tony Campolo is a good reference. I had the privilege of hosting him in 3-4 sessions with my organization and spent a few hours with him. He practiced what he preached. e. One of my devotionals this week - ”How easy it is for me to go through life forgetting that I am but a tenant, a temporary user of all God has entrusted to me. Even what I deem to be mine by the sweat of my labor is in my hands only temporarily, as each breath I draw is by His pleasure. It will end in a heartbeat. In an eye’s quick twinkling I will find myself standing before the Creator and owner of all I once treated as my own as He asks for an accounting. Every decision, every act or omission, every thought, will be reviewed before the One who gave life and all that I enjoy.” This clear reminder that my every thought, every deed , needs to reflect on God’s ownership of my life. Agreed this is where one lives abundantly!!! f. Your last 5 minutes of #36 was the ‘meat’ for our Christ-like life objective…….but I keep asking; i. Where are the examples of dying to self today and around me? ii. How are the hearts of people reached to make this as priority …starting with me looking in a mirror PLEASE, respect my privacy and do not state my name on the air. I am not ashamed of the comments and am happy to debate them with you but many times interpretation without context by others is not as it was intended. Therefore, I prefer ‘anonymous commentator’.

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95% of podcast 34 messages/comments are non-debatable. However, special issue polices do impact our lives, energy, and the hoax of global warming issue polices do affect our cost of living and other polices on Healthcare, immigration, economic drivers....these are and should be important enough to earn a vote. A big issue of course is that people are not armed with facts and accurate data to make informed choices and/or discussions. 2. What is the role of the church to educate/espouse the Biblical position on political issues and policies? Taking a passive political approach and not engaging makes it easier for wrong choices due to misinformation/lies being propagated in Christains and, hence, wrong vote choices. 3. You seemed to convey that the choice is 'or', i.e. "Christians should only focus on the spiritual needs of those around us and not engage politics or be a positive influence for right". Why the view that it cannot be, 'and'? 4. Should not the church of all organizations be promoting voting? Much less than 50% of evangels voted....WHY? Voting should be an imperative, especially by ones that what Christain and better morale ideals. But instead the church runs away from eve supporting/promoting the importance of voting or conveying enlightenment on issues the impact us. 5. And while individual candidates may not be liked or acceptable, the focus must be on the party platforms and polices represented, and that best aligns with Biblical principles/morals/absolutes. 6. What we see in the world today, in the media and all around us is all the result of an unrepentant world with their backs turned against God and his righteousness, turned against accountability, and rather focused on self-gratification, selfishness, gaining power, i.e., the full sinful nature of man on display. Thoughts to ponder.... Thanks for taking on the 'hot' topic.

Well not with that attitude. JS

Trying to find identity versus a focus on the 'how to' die out to Christ. Talking about another's witness/impact for Christ certainly has value but how did they get there, what must a person really do to 'personally experience' Christ in their hearts and lives? Perhaps an added emphasis on the process versus talking about outcomes....just some thoughts....

God makes a way when there is no way.... God doesn't remove disasters but makes away to endure and/or navigate them for greater glory....

I absolutely love this podcast. I listen to it on Spotify. And I listen and hear the word of God in a different way than I used to. Thank you for this podcast. May God bless you and this podcast.

I appreciate that both of you are willing to wrestle with this issue and not water down the message of loving our neighbor by landing on a political answer. I personally instinctively dislike the idea of asking the government to remove itself from aid so that the church can fill in. But I have heard this argument before from compassionate people. And I can live at peace in that tension when I have enough influences like this podcast.

Good podcast 😁 The rock here,I have gotten your rhetorical questions and they look crazy when not, these are just most dangerous disease killing our generation. My thought is you continue discussing it so at the end we might agree on how to approach such

This is awesome

Wow, I like how Ben explained to Joe that overnight prayers! The drums are the instruments 🙏

I appreciate your reasoning and insights, but especially that you both spoke out of compassion. So many times I hear Christians only speak out of fear when talking about anything political. It's so difficult not to get sucked into that fear. I don't even have to agree with everything you said to find this encouraging!

Thank you Papa Joe

Thank you so much for sharing your inspiring and beautiful story!

I know that wonderful guy!!

Circumcision is mutilation

Coward! If you know it’s true then don’t be ashamed. “Weaponization” is the word you use because you don’t think it’s true enough for others.

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Thank you for sharing! I too love our church and how we love on people! Stay strong.❤

Awww Bri. I am so touched by your story. God loves you. And I take no credit I give all glory to Jesus. Love you my sister I'm Christ. So very proud of how far God is bringing you. We serve a very good God. ❤

I love you more mama❤

I love you bri❤

Wtf are you talking about. You're worrying about all the wrong things.

damn god must hate me. Single my whole life (i'm 26), put me in an abusive household growing up and when my parents got divorced that became 2 abusive households.

jesus was just a person who annoyed the romans and got himself killed, he is not the son of god, there is no god, and more to the point hell is just a threat to get you to sign up to the scam, take away hell and religion would last two months tops - take it from i own hell.

you might want to vary your intro, it's boring on the first listen, it's plain tedious after six videos. i think you are the reason the churches are empty, you have a really crummy delivery considering the creator of the universe is your "inspiration" - you're a joke.

you might want to vary your intro, it's boring on the first listen, it's plain tedious after six videos. i think you are the reason the churches are empty, you have a really crummy delivery considering the creator of the universe is your "inspiration" - you're a joke.

when god comes in person and actually gives some coherent information about what he wants - and more importantly WHY he wants anything then i think i'll just carry on as if he doesn't exist - cos he doesn't exist. great channel by the way this one is 1 to 1 disliked. god must love you guys eh.

so how do you get around god killing everyone in the flood, and not just drowning them (why?) but burning them alive afterwards. you are sick people you truly are.

if you're christian can you remind god he can't just go around killing people and burning them alive for eternity just because they disagree with him, we have rights. and while you're at it, cold fusion, if god isn't going to do anything about putin (heart attack or something that looks natural), if he's not going to stop the war, (when did he ever stop a war) then the least he can do is hint as to how to get cold fusion working - has he seen my electricity bills since the ukraine debacle started, there's a love eh. don't be pushy though, god has a short fuse.

"the goal of our podcast is to make stuff up to convince you god isn't a mass killer"

what are you hoping to acieve with this 70 views and 3 likes channel? "if you save just one person from the fires of hell" is that it? just a quick reminder that the first amendment conflicts with the first commandment "thou shalt worship whoever you want" and that the declaration of human rights gives ME more rights than god. and a history lesson cos the USA is a secular nation, not many people seem to know that, and the founding fathers were at best deists and certainly not christian. hitchens became a naturalised american purely because of the constitution. the UK is officially christian, the US is officially secular. is it annoying that the satanic temple has the SAME RIGHTS as the church ?

don't blame me, i keep getting these crappy backwater religious channels popping up in my feed. you have a dislikes to likes ratio of of 1-0 so that's a joke in itself. let me share my theory - my theory is crummy channels like this are what's driving people away from church, it's pretty clear no one is interested and anyone who "comes to visit" your empty channel is going to walk straight back out the door. so keep it up, you already offend so many people, either by being "too liberal" or by being "too fire and brimstone" and pew polls and gallup indicate that the "nones" are second generation - they don't even know they are atheist, god is that meaningless.

The only things worth doing are the hard things

it doesnt matter if you are off track as long as u keep moving

It’s funny how Christian’s can talk absolute nonsense and sit there smugly like they’re saying something profound. What about the large majority of the world that’s not Christian? They’re all wrong and your right? Christians see themselves as that special??? Lol

They are all wrong...so obvious.

Am a Christian nationalists

Love x ♥️

Abraham had my old testes

You’ve described such a beautiful place. Don’t go and fuck that up with your stupid book.

Thank you Brothers for help building the kingdom

Would you die for a lie? So powerful

Does Mike have info for the men's group that meets?

Like in the simple definition of “a statement that is true at all times and in all places” ? Or is there another definition that is being referred to in the video? Because an example of absolute truth can be “there are no round squares” I feel like most people would believe In absolute truth if it was defined like this.