What the Church Is - Article VIII of the Augsburg Confession
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“Christians are hypocrites.”
In a 2018 Barna Survey, this was the highest barrier to the Christian faith for non-Christians – averaging answers from Generation Z all the way to Boomers. Be it dissonance between what a Christian church practices and what the Bible preaches or a disconnect between what a Christian church preaches and what they practice, non-Christians perceive this as an obstacle when considering the Christian faith. When hypocrisy predominantly describes those within the churches nearest them, non-Christians struggle to see the Church at large as relevant, reliable, or real (i.e. authentic and genuine). Such scandal within the local church can even unnerve the church-going Christian.
In this episode of The Manna Podcast, Jacob Lewis and Pastor Sam Jeske tackle this sensitive subject matter during their discussion of Article VIII of the Augsburg Confession.
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