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The Caesar Question: Where Does Your Ultimate Loyalty Lie?
Jim Wallis

Editors note: This is part six of an eight-part series exploring
the eight Jesus questions all of us must face, highlighted in Jim
Wallis's new book Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to
Reclaim Jesus (HarperOne), available now. These next eight weeks
will help us go deeper than the headlines, to find our way back
to Jesus in the midst of this intensive and exhausting news
cycle. 

Want to hear this in an audio format instead? We just launched an
eight-episode podcast series called Reclaiming Jesus
Now that features Allison Trowbridge and William Matthews
speaking with Jim Wallis about these questions and their
relevance today.

When Jesus answers the Pharisees' trick question in Matthew
22:21 by saying "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's," the
text says they were amazed and went away, not having a good
counterargument to offer.

But this famous teaching from Jesus inspires some logical
follow-up questions. What belongs to Caesar, and what belongs to
God? How do we discern what belongs to whom? What level of
allegiance, loyalty, or obedience do we owe government? When does
obedience to God demand disobedience to government? These have
long been important questions for followers of Jesus and feel
particularly potent in this political era, when we often contend
with those who misrepresent or abuse this text in an attempt to
put the power of the state over the power of faith.

The truth of Jesus' life and ministry is just the opposite:
Jesus was and is a deeply revolutionary figure, a threat to the
status quo -- it's this understanding of who Jesus is that
desperately needs to be reclaimed.

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Trains, Jesus, and Murder: The Gospel according to Johnny Cash

In "Trains, Jesus, and Murder," Richard Beck explores the
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In reflecting on Cash's lyrics, and the passion with which he
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