2393. Does the Church Grow by Being Nice? – Pr. Larry Peters, 8/26/24
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Learn about the Holy Spirit's work from the early church, through the Reformation, and into Lutheranism today with the issues it said or a book of the month for August, |
| 0:09.0 | Embracing your Lutheran identity. |
| 0:11.0 | This new book is written by regular guest Dr. Gene Edward Veth. You can pre-order |
| 0:15.6 | Embracing your Lutheran identity at issues ETC.org or by calling Concordia publishing |
| 0:21.2 | house 1-800 325 325, 30-40. |
| 0:24.6 | Embracing your Lutheran identity, the issues, etc. Book of the month. There's a drum beat and has been for, well, probably half a century that what's really wrong |
| 0:45.7 | with the church is that Christians aren't nice enough if we were nice enough |
| 0:49.4 | we were more accommodating more tolerant then the church would be growing and many churches |
| 0:54.8 | individual congregations and denominations have tried it and what they've ended up |
| 0:59.1 | doing is well compromising with the world and they're still not nice enough for the world |
| 1:05.0 | sometimes. Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to talk |
| 1:10.3 | about niceness and evangelism. Pastor Larry Peters, he's senior |
| 1:14.0 | pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Clarksville, Tennessee, an author of a recent |
| 1:17.5 | column titled if they like us, they will come. Larry, welcome back. |
| 1:21.4 | It's good to be back, Todd. How are you? Just fine. You say that some |
| 1:26.1 | have decided that niceness is the way to go to church. What do you mean? |
| 1:32.6 | Well, we talked a while ago about a critic that had a list of things |
| 1:37.6 | that in his mind were the reasons why the Lutheran Church, Missouri |
| 1:41.2 | Senate, was not growing anymore. |
| 1:43.4 | And underneath all that list is basically the appeal to the church to be nice. |
| 1:50.0 | By nice what I mean is to not be threatening to people's values, to their understanding of things, |
| 1:57.8 | to their individualistic truth. |
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