Life In Wartime

COVID-19 has taught us many lessons about the imperative to evangelise, but also how important it is to adapt our methods to the circumstances of the day. In the final episode of Life In Wartime, David Robertson and Stephen McAlpine discuss what it is to be an evangelist, and what form that evangelism can most helpfully take in a time of world crisis. It seems that the imminent prospect of death by pandemic should be the ideal time for people to hear about eternal life - so why is the Gospel message not cutting through? How is it that the world can be never been more open to, but never more hostile towards what Jesus has to say?

We have been talking about Life in Wartime. But what is this war we're involved in? The war against Covid? The War against racism? Are we social justice warriors? Should we be focussed on the culture wars? Or actual wars? Why would we in the Church use this language of war, and what does it mean for us?

David Robertson and Steve McAlpine look at the shape of political discourse during global crises, beginning with Winston Churchill's encouragement to the British people during World War II. Do we discover in it a unity based on our shared need to get through the crisis? And will it evaporate as soon as the crisis passes? Most importantly, can Christians learn a fundamental truth about unity in politics from the word of God?

David Robertson and Stephen McAlpine take a leap from U2's Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and discuss the basis for lasting unity in a world troubled by division. Then it's time to take out the graphs and discover how communities traditional deal with crisis, and the importance of unity for addressing any threat. But where will lasting unity be found?

David Robertson and Stephen McAlpine discuss The Blessing, the social phenomena that began in the northern hemisphere and has now found its way to Australia. They then push on to ask what it is we're hoping to gain from music as Christians and can there be such a thing as Godly secular music?