Michael Wear
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229 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Mar
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So if we want a politics that has kind outcomes for the American people, we can't do that through a politics of belligerence.
And Christians can bring that.
One of the reasons why, and to be clear, I think,
This is not exclusive.
I think we all know, I know, I've worked with people who are not Christian, who serve in public office, who advocate politically in tremendously healthy, wonderful ways.
Ben Sasse is a friend of mine, and I think for those – Ben received – Ben Sasse, a former United States senator from Nebraska, he received a cancer diagnosis.
I disagree with Ben on a number of political issues, but in my first book, I talked about how grateful I was that as a sitting United States senator, Ben Sasse –
would say that politics is not ultimate.
Now, that is the kind of statement that can, frankly, when pastors say it, it's kind of like, well, yeah, you're a pastor.
What was powerful about Ben saying it was clearly he wasn't saying politics is unimportant.
Clearly, he dedicated it.
But what he was saying was,
Oh, my confidence is not in my political positions or in my winning a political battle.
Right, or in that seat or in that race.
Yes, exactly.
And if Christians could bring that to politics with an ability to foreground –
the common good, as opposed to politics as just this forum for self-expression, this sort of forum for getting what you can get out of it by any means necessary, that would be a benefit to everybody.
And Christians have unique resources to draw on because we actually don't think that our security is found in political outcomes.
And our politics could use some of that.
Yeah.
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