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What if God truly looks like Jesus—and nothing unlike Him? We follow that daring claim to its consequences for justice, power, and public life, challenging a culture discipled by outrage and a church tempted to trade the cross for the sword. From early church witness to modern culture wars, we uncover how a Christ-shaped vision dismantles coercion and reclaims love as the most disruptive force on earth.
We walk through the hot-button issues without the partisan fog. Abortion becomes a call to protect unborn life and uphold women’s dignity with real support, not slogans. The death penalty collides with the crucified Lord who forgives His executioners, pushing us toward restoration rather than revenge. War, often wrapped in patriotic language, is exposed as tragedy that the church cannot bless if we’re serious about the Sermon on the Mount. Along the way we revisit Revelation’s searing symbols—the beast of empire and the whore of compromised religion—to reveal how faith loses its voice when it rides on state power.
This conversation lands where discipleship gets costly: repent of mixed allegiances, resist the algorithm’s discipling and applause for sanctified contempt, and recenter life on the Lamb who already reigns. We reflect on a national moment of grief that showcased both enemy-forgiving mercy and enemy-hating bravado from the same stage, and we ask what it means to multiply “little Christs” instead of culture warriors. If the church is the bride, not empire’s mascot, then our future is clear—embody a peacemaking, generous, resilient community that looks like Jesus in public.
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Chapters
1. What Does God Look Like (00:00:00)
2. Show Opening And Core Claim (00:01:02)
3. Tragedy, Politicization, And Empire (00:02:11)
4. CTA: Turn Your Message Into Movement (00:05:15)
5. Christological God Versus Idol Of Empire (00:06:27)
6. Justice Reframed: Abortion, Death Penalty, War (00:10:01)
7. The Church As A Third Way (00:16:30)
8. Support The Mission: Donate (00:18:53)
9. Defining And Debunking Christian Nationalism (00:20:15)
10. Revelation’s Beast And The Whore (00:24:08)
11. The Alternative Community Of Jesus (00:30:31)
12. Funeral Whiplash: Lamb And Lion (00:34:45)
13. Repent, Resist, Recenter (00:40:18)
14. Final Call: Choose Christ Over Caesar (00:45:08)
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