On Election Day, the Church Should Confuse Both Political Camps by Looking Like Christ

 

On Election Day, Brian From reminds listeners that the midterms matter, but our hope doesn’t rise or fall with the results, because our citizenship is in heaven. He marvels at Karl Bushby completing a 28-year, 31,000-mile walk around the world, then turns to a wave of large church capital campaigns and urges churches to talk about money transparently and wisely in a season of financial strain. He shares a Christianity Today “manifesto for phone-free church,” admitting he’s guilty himself, and discusses YouVersion data showing Psalm 91 was the Bible app’s most searched term this year. In the second hour, Brian reacts to a restaurant worker fired for emptying a Halloween candy bowl, highlights “poll chaplains” who pray and de-escalate tension at voting sites, and shares a Gospel Coalition piece on Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s refusal to trade the gospel for politics during the London Blitz. He reflects on the “church militant” fighting a battle already won, shares Pastor Tara Beth Leach’s hope that the church will confuse both political camps by looking like Christ, and closes in Philippians 1.