077 | How to Choose a Church
Verity by Phylicia Masonheimer
Phylicia Masonheimer
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What do you look for in a church when moving, switching to a new gathering, or visiting for the first time? This episode breaks down just a few things to keep in mind and questions to ask during the church hunt process!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher. |
| 0:07.0 | This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith, |
| 0:11.8 | ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. |
| 0:18.2 | You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper, |
| 0:23.3 | God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello friends and welcome back to Verity podcast. I am so thrilled to talk about |
| 0:36.1 | choosing a church today. This is a topic that I get questions about frequently on Ask Anything Monday |
| 0:42.1 | on Instagram. And so far, I've always referred people to a blog post that I have about it, |
| 0:47.1 | but I thought, you know what, it is time to have an episode of the podcast on this issue. |
| 0:52.9 | Because whether you are coming back into the world after the COVID pandemic or whether you've |
| 0:58.4 | moved to a new state or city or maybe you went through a church upheaval and you're choosing a new |
| 1:06.2 | family to gather with, you're going to have to ask some questions about choosing a church. And so |
| 1:12.2 | I hope that this episode is helpful for you as you navigate those questions and as you |
| 1:19.2 | find a family of God to gather with locally. Before we get started, I really want to emphasize |
| 1:26.0 | how much I champion the local church. I have a ministry that is mostly online. It is international. |
| 1:34.3 | And yet the local church is where I am known and held accountable. It is where my work is grounded |
| 1:42.8 | and seen. And that is so important for someone who's doing what I do. It is so easy to just hop |
| 1:49.6 | on the internet and say stuff about the Bible or about God and not be connected to a local church. |
| 1:56.4 | And I just think that that's such a dangerous choice for someone who is teaching the Bible. And so |
| 2:02.3 | I want you to know first that I am connected to my local church. I have been for the entire time |
| 2:08.1 | that I have been writing about scripture and teaching the Bible. And the church that I'm in now, |
| 2:13.9 | I am on the teaching team. And I know the pastors and the elders and they are wonderful people who |
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