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    <title>Pleading the Case - Episodes Tagged with “Perfect Love”</title>
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    <description>If a tune-up can’t fix a car engine because what it really needs is for the entire engine to be rebuilt, then why would we, in the Christian faith, perform tune-ups on the form and function of our churches when what they may really need is to be completely overhauled? Join the host of Pleading The Case, Andy Mendonsa, where in each episode, he will peal back the culture and traditions that have come to define much of the Church in America today in order to accurately assess whether all that is needed is just a good tune-up, or as he has become convinced, a compete overhaul. 
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    <itunes:subtitle>"Stand Before The Mountains, Let The Hills Hear What You Have To Say"</itunes:subtitle>
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    <itunes:summary>If a tune-up can’t fix a car engine because what it really needs is for the entire engine to be rebuilt, then why would we, in the Christian faith, perform tune-ups on the form and function of our churches when what they may really need is to be completely overhauled? Join the host of Pleading The Case, Andy Mendonsa, where in each episode, he will peal back the culture and traditions that have come to define much of the Church in America today in order to accurately assess whether all that is needed is just a good tune-up, or as he has become convinced, a compete overhaul. 
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  <title>Episode 11: Calling All Citizens</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In Philippians 3:20 Paul tells us "Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ..."  Clearly, if our citizenship is in heaven then why do we try and make our earthly citizenships' the greater priority for bringing the kingdom of God to bear?  Is this Biblical? </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>For 430 years Israel existed without the law after God made his covenant with Abraham. So why was the law given?  According to Galatians 3:19 "It was added because of transgressions until the seed (Jesus) to whom the promise referred had come.  The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator."  After the law and the high priestly system of rule was established, Israel remained a theocracy, "a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God, or a god," "from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as King."  Since we know, based on scripture, how that turned out (just as God said it would in I Samuel 8:11-22), why do we, now citizens of heaven, already seated with Jesus in a heavenly realm, still demand a king? 
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