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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That's why they're worried that if they aren't always on guard, reality might prove to be unkind to their faith.
But Christians who have joyful confidence in the Lord, and there's a philosopher by the name of Dallas Willard who defined joy as a pervasive and constant sense of well-being.
And at my events, Amy, over the last few years, I've asked audiences how many of you would describe our politics as full of a pervasive and constant sense of well-being.
And it's a laugh line, of course.
Yeah.
But it's a good question for Christians to ask themselves.
When politics is in the room with me, when I'm talking about politics, when I think about political life, is there a baseline, foundational, pervasive sense of
wellness.
Or when I think of politics, am I prone to contempt?
Am I prone to condemnation?
These are important things to wrestle with as Christians and I think as citizens.
We need to think about what
whether the kind of politics that we want can flow from a mode of participation that is totally inconsistent with that aspiration.
In other words, like, if we want...
A politics that cares for those who are left out, what the Catholics would refer to as a preferential option for the poor, for the outcast.
Can we have a mode of politics that is fueled by...
self-interest and contempt.
And I think so often we have political strategists who say that we are going to get to a healthier politics just on the other side of a politics of hatred and trivialities.
And I just want to say that's not going to work.
the outworkings of our politics are going to be consistent in real ways with the nature of our politics.
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