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The Escape Room Podcast Ep. 34 | From Eden to Injustice: God’s Image in a Broken World

South Atlantic Conference Broadcasting Network February 7, 2026 9:48 AM

🎙️ Fear & Trembling: Obedience, Authority, & the Limits of Force

⚖️ What happens when obedience collides with conscience?
🧠 When authority demands compliance… but truth demands courage?
🔥 And when force is available—who decides its limits?

In this gripping episode of The Escape Room Podcast, we step into one of the most uncomfortable but necessary conversations of our time: the tension between submission and moral responsibility—both in Scripture and in society.

Drawing from Philippians 2:12–13 — “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” — we explore what Paul actually meant. Was he calling for blind obedience? Passive faith? Or a deep, trembling awareness that loyalty to Christ sometimes places believers at odds with the powers around them?

This episode doesn’t offer slogans.
It offers soul-searching.

We examine:
🕊️ The difference between obedience to God and obedience to systems
📜 How Scripture frames authority—not as absolute, but accountable
🚨 The moral weight of force, enforcement, and state power
🧩 When unity becomes silence… and when silence becomes complicity
💡 What it truly means to live as citizens of Heaven in turbulent times

From biblical prisons to modern headlines, from Roman chains to contemporary conflict, this conversation asks the question many avoid:

Is faith meant to make us compliant… or courageous?

This is not rebellion for rebellion’s sake.
This is not outrage for applause.
This is discipleship under pressure.

Because “fear and trembling” was never about terror—
it was about taking God seriously enough to examine our loyalties, our voices, and our actions.

🎧 Welcome to The Escape Room Podcast —
where faith isn’t used to escape reality…
it’s used to confront it. ✨🔥

🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6412467570212864

🎙️ Fear & Trembling: Obedience, Authority, & the Limits of Force

⚖️ What happens when obedience collides with conscience?
🧠 When authority demands compliance… but truth demands courage?
🔥 And when force is available—who decides its limits?

In this gripping episode of The Escape Room Podcast, we step into one of the most uncomfortable but necessary conversations of our time: the tension between submission and moral responsibility—both in Scripture and in society.

Drawing from Philippians 2:12–13 — “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” — we explore what Paul actually meant. Was he calling for blind obedience? Passive faith? Or a deep, trembling awareness that loyalty to Christ sometimes places believers at odds with the powers around them?

This episode doesn’t offer slogans.
It offers soul-searching.

We examine:
🕊️ The difference between obedience to God and obedience to systems
📜 How Scripture frames authority—not as absolute, but accountable
🚨 The moral weight of force, enforcement, and state power
🧩 When unity becomes silence… and when silence becomes complicity
💡 What it truly means to live as citizens of Heaven in turbulent times

From biblical prisons to modern headlines, from Roman chains to contemporary conflict, this conversation asks the question many avoid:

Is faith meant to make us compliant… or courageous?

This is not rebellion for rebellion’s sake.
This is not outrage for applause.
This is discipleship under pressure.

Because “fear and trembling” was never about terror—
it was about taking God seriously enough to examine our loyalties, our voices, and our actions.

🎧 Welcome to The Escape Room Podcast —
where faith isn’t used to escape reality…
it’s used to confront it. ✨🔥

🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6412467570212864

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The Escape Room Podcast Ep. 33 | Fear & Trembling: Obedience, Authority, & the Limits of Force

South Atlantic Conference Broadcasting Network January 31, 2026 9:26 AM

🎙️Mind Surgery, Not Messaging: The Mind of Christ in a Divided Church

🧠✂️ The church doesn’t need better slogans.
It needs transformation.

In Philippians 2, Paul doesn’t offer a branding strategy for unity—he calls for death to self. Not cosmetic change. Not spin. Not PR. But mind surgery.

In a moment when Christians argue more than they listen, defend positions more than people, and confuse certainty with Christlikeness, Paul drags the conversation inward—into the heart, the ego, the motives we bring into community.

Jesus didn’t win the world through dominance.
He didn’t grasp power.
He emptied Himself.

This episode confronts the uncomfortable truth:
Disunity in the church isn’t primarily a political problem.
It’s a pride problem.

We explore:
🔍 Why knowing the truth isn’t the same as living it
🩺 How humility—not outrage—is the gateway to unity
⚔️ Why disunity begins in the mind long before it shows up in church splits
✝️ How the cross dismantles ego, ambition, and spiritual performance
🧠 Why Paul calls us to the mind of Christ, not the spirit of the age

This isn’t unity as silence.
This isn’t unity as compromise.
This is unity as cruciform obedience.

If the church is going to survive this moment—let alone witness to it—it won’t be through messaging.

It will be through transformation.

🎧 Welcome to The Escape Room Podcast—where faith isn’t used to win arguments, but to form people.

#MindOfChrist #ChristianUnity #UnityWithoutIllusions #MindSurgeryNotMessaging #Philippians2 #CrossShapedFaith #HumilityOverPride #FaithAndPractice #DiscipleshipMatters #ChurchUnity #BiblicalUnity #SpiritualFormation #ChristianWitness #TruthAndLove #CruciformLiving #FaithInTension #CounterCulturalChristianity #KingdomOfGod #LivingTheGospel #GreatControversy #AdventistYoungAdults #SabbathSchool #SeventhDayAdventist #SeventhDayAdventistChurch #SDA #AdventistChurch #AdventistFaith #AdventistLife #AdventistPodcast #ChristianPodcast #FaithAndCulture #YoungAdultFaith #ChristianThought #TheologyInRealLife #JesusCentered #BibleStudy #ScriptureFirst #SpiritualGrowth #ChristianDiscipline #ChurchLife #UnityInDiversity #FaithAfterPolitics #ChristNotCulture #HeartTransformation #EscapeRoomPodcast #YoungAdults1835

🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6412467570212864

🎙️Mind Surgery, Not Messaging: The Mind of Christ in a Divided Church

🧠✂️ The church doesn’t need better slogans.
It needs transformation.

In Philippians 2, Paul doesn’t offer a branding strategy for unity—he calls for death to self. Not cosmetic change. Not spin. Not PR. But mind surgery.

In a moment when Christians argue more than they listen, defend positions more than people, and confuse certainty with Christlikeness, Paul drags the conversation inward—into the heart, the ego, the motives we bring into community.

Jesus didn’t win the world through dominance.
He didn’t grasp power.
He emptied Himself.

This episode confronts the uncomfortable truth:
Disunity in the church isn’t primarily a political problem.
It’s a pride problem.

We explore:
🔍 Why knowing the truth isn’t the same as living it
🩺 How humility—not outrage—is the gateway to unity
⚔️ Why disunity begins in the mind long before it shows up in church splits
✝️ How the cross dismantles ego, ambition, and spiritual performance
🧠 Why Paul calls us to the mind of Christ, not the spirit of the age

This isn’t unity as silence.
This isn’t unity as compromise.
This is unity as cruciform obedience.

If the church is going to survive this moment—let alone witness to it—it won’t be through messaging.

It will be through transformation.

🎧 Welcome to The Escape Room Podcast—where faith isn’t used to win arguments, but to form people.

#MindOfChrist #ChristianUnity #UnityWithoutIllusions #MindSurgeryNotMessaging #Philippians2 #CrossShapedFaith #HumilityOverPride #FaithAndPractice #DiscipleshipMatters #ChurchUnity #BiblicalUnity #SpiritualFormation #ChristianWitness #TruthAndLove #CruciformLiving #FaithInTension #CounterCulturalChristianity #KingdomOfGod #LivingTheGospel #GreatControversy #AdventistYoungAdults #SabbathSchool #SeventhDayAdventist #SeventhDayAdventistChurch #SDA #AdventistChurch #AdventistFaith #AdventistLife #AdventistPodcast #ChristianPodcast #FaithAndCulture #YoungAdultFaith #ChristianThought #TheologyInRealLife #JesusCentered #BibleStudy #ScriptureFirst #SpiritualGrowth #ChristianDiscipline #ChurchLife #UnityInDiversity #FaithAfterPolitics #ChristNotCulture #HeartTransformation #EscapeRoomPodcast #YoungAdults1835

🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6412467570212864

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The Escape Room Podcast Ep. 32 | Mind Surgery, Not Messaging: The Mind of Christ in a Divided Church

South Atlantic Conference Broadcasting Network January 24, 2026 9:58 AM

WELCOME TO SOUTH ATLANTIC!

Spreading the love and teachings of Jesus Christ

The South Atlantic Conference covers the states of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. It has a membership of over 36,000, serving 178 churches and companies, employing over 435 people, and operating 15 schools.

The mission of the conference is to empower and encourage every member to know Jesus and experience the Joy of salvation.

So once again Welcome! And let’s pray for one another as we work to hasten the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

C. B. Preston
President

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On Saturday, December 6, the Youth Department, under the leadership of our youth leader, Carmen Nagel, together with her husband,

The New Life SDA Church and the Rock Hill Spanish Company joyfully united for a historic Joint Ordination and Officers

The Students, Faculty, Staff, and Supporters of Ramah Junior Academy in Savannah, Georgia, participated in the MLK, Jr. Day Parade.

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Latest News & Stories from the SAC

The New Life SDA Church and the Rock Hill Spanish Company joyfully united for a historic Joint Ordination and Officers

The Students, Faculty, Staff, and Supporters of Ramah Junior Academy in Savannah, Georgia, participated in the MLK, Jr. Day Parade.

On Saturday, December 6, the Youth Department, under the leadership of our youth leader, Carmen Nagel, together with her husband,

The New Life SDA Church and the Rock Hill Spanish Company joyfully united for a historic Joint Ordination and Officers

The Students, Faculty, Staff, and Supporters of Ramah Junior Academy in Savannah, Georgia, participated in the MLK, Jr. Day Parade.