Welcome to Lead Now the podcast for the Texas Baptist Center for effective leadership. For months we've been hearing about mid term elections with elections even just around the corner people in our church is bound to be talking about their political ___ and their frustration. While trying to be ___ in the Roman practical way it can become difficult to address current issues in our churches without becoming involved(?) in political debate that can divide our churches. Especially when it's the voting season. Steven Reeves legislative counsel for the Christian Life Commission of Texas Baptist is with us this week to help us navigate this treacherous matters. Thanks for joining Steven. Thank you Emily. So Steven if pastors want to be relevant why wouldn't they wanna preach about a coming election on a Sunday morning? Well Emily I think they might wanna preach about political issues and I think that when we look at the life and teaching of Christ much of