This whole week (except for this coming Saturday), I'll be releasing a 5-minute or less episode each day on issues pertaining to the Church. This is my best hope of wrapping up all the little topics while not trying to squeeze everything into a single 10-minute episode. I hope these all are a blessing to you!

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This whole week (except for this coming Saturday), I'll be releasing a 5-minute or less episode each day on issues pertaining to the Church. This is my best hope of wrapping up all the little topics while not trying to squeeze everything into a single 10-minute episode. I hope these all are a blessing to you!

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This whole week (except for this coming Saturday), I'll be releasing a 5-minute or less episode each day on issues pertaining to the Church. This is my best hope of wrapping up all the little topics while not trying to squeeze everything into a single 10-minute episode. I hope these all are a blessing to you!

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This isn't intended to be exhaustive or even conclusive. Just looking to bring a little balance to the discussion. Hope it helps!

Recommended reading: "One Assembly" (Leeman), and "Uncomfortable" (McCracken). Good modern books on church.

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In this episode, we move to dismantle three popular but invalid notions of church. This is necessary if we wish to have a balanced discussion on the nature of "church" itself. Is it local? Universal? Institutional? Something else completely? Either way, we've got to properly define church and disqualify some oddities before answering that question. 

Hope this episode is a help to you!

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In this episode, I kick off our miniseries on the church. We need some balance when it comes to this area for sure! This is sort of an introductory podcast to this miniseries, and we talk about what the word "church" means and why we call it a "church" instead of an "assembly" as some might imagine we should, since it comes from the Greek word "ecclesia" after all. 

I hope this episode and future episodes are a help and a blessing to you!

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It's no surprise that these two episodes aren't going to be my "biggest hits," but I still think it's important to be able to have something to which we can refer when the issue of "Religion vs. Relationship" comes up. In this episode, I continue to work through this odd dichotomy, examining the concept of a "personal relationship with Jesus" from a balanced point of view.

As with last week, I hope this is a help to any and all who have questions or opinions about this subject.

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In this episode, I try to bring some much-needed balance to the ongoing vilification of the term "religion" by showing its etymology, how it is used in Scripture, and what it means as opposed to what most think it means today. I hope to help us avoid throwing out the proverbial baby with the bathwater when considering the proper and improper uses of this word.

I hope this is a help to any and all who have questions or opinions about this subject.

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In this episode, I introduce a concept known as "propositional space," a mental warehouse of sorts where we can gather and sort through beliefs and behaviors that are different from the ones we currently hold. This is essential to proper growth, and helps us avoid too-quick acceptance or instant rejection of ideas that are foreign, frightening, or repelling to our current beliefs. I hope this episode will be of good use to you!

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In this episode (that was originally supposed to be a half-length episode but kept me up till after 230AM working on it a lot more than I thought I would because it's such a cool topic to research), I talk about the possible origins of the word "Easter" and quickly touch on how bunnies and eggs might have become associated with this special day. In the end, I'm trying to show both sides of the equation and help us to approach this topic more humbly and honestly. It's definitely my most rapid-fire episode, because there was a LOT to cover. I hope this benefits you as a resource!

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