EP344: The Budget & The Bible | Do You Really Love Your Enemy? | A Worldview Test

On This Episode: WORLDVIEW TEST I will play you audio from two government hearings and one TikTok. Here’s the game: can you hear where the errant point is coming from? Can you identify what unbiblical premise is informing the damaging worldview? It’s important we build our skill for hearing WHERE a bad idea is coming from. THE PROPOSED FEDERAL BUDGET The head of the executive branch recently proposed his annual budget. I want to examine that budget while asking the question: do these line items accord with Biblical thinking on what governments should and should not do? Budgets are political documents but they’re also moral documents. How we spend our money makes statements about our values and priorities. So, let’s examine the budget. HOW WELL DO YOU LOVE YOUR ENEMY? Imagine the person you most disagree with. Imagine the ideas you find most infuriating. When you think about the people that hold whose ideas, can you say that you love them? I struggle with this. Our media and social media machines have made it increasingly difficult, but that’s our call: love your enemy. I have some thoughts I want to share about that.