#251 Does Matthew Teach an Invisible Church? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

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The author of Meeting the Protestant Challenge explains why Catholics believe that the Church is a visible hierarchical institution when Jesus says that the Church in Matthew 18:20 is an invisible union of believers. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, in studio again with Karlo Broussard. Hello, Karlo. Karlo Broussard: Hey, Cy. CK: Karlo, the author of a couple of books, including Prepare the Way, Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel, and the Church, and Meeting the Protestant Challenge, How to Answer 50 Biblical Objections to C…

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome again to Kappa Gansters Focus. I'm Cy Kellett, your host in
0:10.1	studio again with Carlo Buecard. Hello, Carla.
0:12.3	Hey, Seine.
0:13.3	Carlo, the author of a couple of books including Prepare the Way,
0:16.0	overcoming obstacles to God, the Gospel and the Church and meeting the Protestant
0:19.5	challenge, how to is a real hard one on a lot of people and it seems like maybe harder in the modern world
0:35.2	than it's ever been before.
0:36.7	We just don't like hierarchy.
0:38.6	It sticks in the craw, this hierarchy thing.
0:42.6	I don't believe in organized religion.
0:44.4	Yes, right.
0:45.1	And so we have, well, we even have those like YouTube people
0:49.0	who be like, I'm a...
0:51.0	About relationship, not about religion. relationship not about religion.
0:53.2	Yeah, about religion, right, right, I'm non-religious Christians basically is what
0:57.0	what they are and they're very popular on YouTube and I think it comports with the modern
1:00.3	understanding of who we are and what we are and all of that.
1:05.1	But so the Catholic would assert that Jesus established a church and that that church has a structure which is in fact hierarchical. Is that a fair thing to say?
1:16.2	Yep and that constitutes the visible dimension of the church. And Jesus founded it.
1:21.8	Correct.
1:22.7	It was not a late, like that's the Catholic.
1:24.3	I just want to get the Catholic.
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