EPISODE · Oct 26, 2014
The End of Beastly Empire
from Word of Life Church Podcast · host Pastor Brian Zahnd
As followers of Jesus who are also citizens of the nation with the world’s largest economy and most powerful military, we face the same kinds of challenges as the Jewish exiles and early Christians to whom the books of Daniel and Revelation were written. Their situation speaks to us. American Christians have to learn how to live like the Jewish exiles and early Christians who lived in the midst of empire. Like them we live in the tension of engaged citizenship and covenant faithfulness. We are exiles on main street.
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As followers of Jesus who are also citizens of the nation with the world’s largest economy and most powerful military, we face the same kinds of challenges as the Jewish exiles and early Christians to whom the books of Daniel and Revelation were written. Their situation speaks to us. American Christians have to learn how to live like the Jewish exiles and early Christians who lived in the midst of empire. Like them we live in the tension of engaged citizenship and covenant faithfulness. We are exiles on main street.
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