The Church Split

Will takes some time to interview The Church Split's own producer and co-host Brian Bode. Many have seen Brian on our rebuttal videos. In this episode, we get to know more about the man behind most of our memes. Brian discusses his time growing up in the Christian Reformed Church, marriage, learning the Bible, meeting Will, and helping Will start the Podcast.

What is swearing? Is it cultural? What is "offensive language"? We get into this taboo subject as Christians debate this all the time. We discuss how language might be holding you back from giving the gospel and reaching new Christians. We also address Pastor Jeff Durbin's "The Woke Church" sermon where he swears.

In part 2 of our rebuttal of IFB Pastor and Podcast host Nathan Rager, we continue to expose their hypocrisy around clothing, music, Bible verses, etc. At one point Luke on the podcasts recommends Duluth Trading company for a place to buy non-worldly clothing. We show several instances where that recommendation was completely laughable and Duluth encompasses most worldly things they are saying to avoid. We use sarcasm and humor to address their points, not to mock, but to expose the ridiculousness of these subjective standards to help unify the church.

We became aware of an IFB Pastor named Nathan Rager after he went on Twitter and started attacking the wives of the RFP podcast. After doing a little research, we found that Nathan has his own podcast which perfectly encompasses the problems we have with the legalism inside the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church. We rebut their first podcast episode which goes after clothing, contemporary Christian music, church logos, evangelicals, pulpit materials, dancing, etc. This is part 1 of a 2 part rebuttal of the Fundamental Thunder Podcast. We recommend watching this episode on YouTube as we use some visuals to expose their hypocrisy.

We have Laura Klassen on, the founder of Choice 42 a Canadian anti-abortion organization. Over the last few years Laura has taken this organization from a small organization to provide resources and knowledge to Canada to now helping woman and children all over the world. They have received media attention with their viral video called "The Magical Birth Canal" which is a satirical video explaining the hypocrisy of bestowing human rights on those only after they pass through the birth canal. She has a massive and ever growing YouTube channel that continues to show the illogical pro-abortion arguments. In this interview Will and Laura discuss her organization, the lack of church support for pro-life in Canada, lack of any pro-life laws in Canada, and how abortion is the modern day version of Child sacrifice.

Are you going to a church that is promoting legalism? Are you being controlled by legalism? Do you know what legalism is? Are you controlling others with legalism? Will breaks down what legalism is, how to identify legalism, and the dangers it imposes on believers and bringing people to the gospel in general. Legalism is a tool used to keep believers in an echo chamber and out of the Word. Be careful of it and reform those that are using it to manipulate others.

The Church Split took a week off, but it was for a good reason! Will talks about becoming a Dad this last week, his journey with prayer, and his renewed understanding of the sanctity of life. In this raw episode Will talks about their personal heartache with the miscarriages they suffered, one of which happened to happen at the time of a Church split. You don't want to miss Will pulling back the curtain on he and his wife's personal journey towards parenthood.

Will interviews Brian Edwards of the Recovering Fundamentalist Podcast. They discuss Brian growing up in the Church Revival atmosphere and the legalism that brought with it. He also discusses his coming out of the IFB as a pastor and how that impacted his church, his marriage, and his personal life.