"Just Thinking: About The State" Book Review

Old Fashion Dad Podcast

Special Episode this week, with our first book review. We are giving an overview of the book "Just Thinking: About the State" by Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker, the creators and hosts of the Just Thinking Podcast. We have been listening and greatly blessed by this podcast, the amount of research, thought and preparation Darrell and Virgil put into each episode and to dissect and unpack each cultural or social topic and point back to scripture and the Gospel as our highest authority and God as our source of truth.

NOTES:

• This Weeks Whiskey: Clyde Mays Straight Rye Whiskey - Alabama - 94 proof
• Buy Just Thinking: About The State - https://press.founders.org/shop/just-thinking-about-the-state/
• Book Chapters:
• Government
• Socialism
• Capitalism
• A Social Savior
• The Born Alive Act
• Black Lives Matter and Abortion
• Politics and the Black Church
• Reparations
• The Equality Act of 2019
• Elections

This is book is important for several reasons.

1. It rightly identifies the problem (sin)
2. It is interpreting our current times and social issues through a biblical lens.
3. It is properly identifying and dissecting the sin that is at the center of major social issues.
4. It is applying scriptural truth to real world problems (racism, marriage, sexuality, divorce, etc)
5. It is calling for significant increase in biblical literacy
6. It calls for men and women to engage in worship of Christ, as opposed to worship of a political party.
7. It calls for children of God to disengage from the sin of partiality
8. It emphasizes the Imago Dei
9. It rightly places scripture into a category of one “Sola Scriptura”
   • Sola scriptura
   • Sola Christus
   • Sola fide
   • Sola gratia
   • Sol deo gloria

i. These five statements of the evangelical faith lay at the center of what

distinguished the theology of the Reformation from the theology of the Roman Catholic church in the 16th century. Sola scriptura is the belief that because Scripture is God’s inspired Word, it is the only inerrant, sufficient, and final authority for the church. Solus Christus is the assertion that Christ alone is the basis on which the ungodly are justified in God’s sight. Sola fide maintains that the believer receives the redemption Christ has accomplished only through faith. Sola gratia proclaims that all of our salvation, from beginning to end, is by grace and grace alone. Because of these things, the Reformers held fast to the phrase soli Deo gloria, that only God receives glory for our salvation. (et al. TGC)

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