From the Archive: 113: The Most Important Thing for Christians to Remember This Election Year with Rebekah Hargraves (Solo Episode 6‪)‬ The Home and Hearth Podcast

As we find ourselves in the middle of yet another election year, I felt it to be the right time to re-visit a podcast episode I first recorded and released 4 years ago during our last presidential election year.  Today we will be addressing again the topic of the most important thing for Christians to remember this election year.  I pray this episode will prove to be helpful and encouraging to you.
What I Chat about in Today's Episode:
~A post ("The Most Important Thing for Christians to Remember This Election Year") I wrote back in 2016 during the last presidential election
~What our name-calling, personal attacks, hand-wringing, and political anxiety reveal about our hearts and the true condition of our faith
~The emphasis we as believers are too often placing on debate over love; how this is very different from the call we are given in the Word
~A survey of Scripture to see what our ultimate call is and what the most important thing is for us to remember and live out this election year
~How our love for America is crowding out the most important thing - love for God and love for others 
~The reality that our ultimate goal is not first and foremost to 'save America', but to fulfill the Great Commission; that our ultimate goal is not to make patriotic Americans, but to make disciples of Christ
~The way our lambasting our fellow believers in Christ over political differences is hindering our witness and our ability to live out the Great Commission
~It being love - and not being our political viewpoints-  that proves we are Christ's disciples
~How Paul tells us that truth without love is worthless
~The sobering, convicting words spoken by Christ to the church at Ephesus in the book of Revelation and what His message to them says to us today
~How grace and truth, mercy and truth, love and truth, are always paired together in the Scriptures when describing the character of God - it is never one without the other - and neither should it be with us
~The importance of being slow to speak and quick to listen, seeking to understand where the other person is coming from
~The impossibility of our wrath, anger, and hatred ever producing the righteousness of Christ in the lives of others
~The politicide going around today emulated by a Twitter thread hoping for destruction to come to Trump voters; the importance of asking ourselves as conservative Christians if we are guilty of the same thing towards Biden voters
~And more!

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