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become an issues et cetera congregational sponsor. One of the reasons that social media works the way it does keeps us coming back again and again and again.

Although we all decry its addictive nature is that it stokes anxiety.

That's just another word for fear, isn't it?

So apart from social media, why does the world live in perpetual fear what is the ultimate

fear that grips mankind especially unbelieving mankind and how is faith the opposite of that fear?

Welcome back to issues, etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to discuss Christian Courage,

Pastor Larry Peters, he's pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Clarksville, Tennessee,

and author of a recent column titled A Fearless Church.

Larry, welcome back.

Good to talk to you, Todd. Unlike the church, why will the world always be ruled by fear?

Well, fear is one of the outward symptoms that sin brought into the world. It's along with everything else,

death that has passed to all people, sin is part of the nature of our hearts since the fall.

It comes from the uncertainty basically that flows out of not knowing

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