A Presbyterian and Lutheran on What Most Christians Miss About Church
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
According to Pew Research, only 51% of self-identified Christians attend church regularly. Pastor Adriel Sanchez is joined by Caleb Keith from 1517 where they both argue that this crisis is not primarily cultural, but theological. Most Christians are simply unaware what the church actually is, what happens there, and why nothing else can replace it.
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us consume more Christian media than ever. |
| 0:04.5 | Podcasts, videos, social media. |
| 0:08.1 | And yet, slowing down and really thinking feels harder than it used to. |
| 0:13.1 | Our newest project was designed with this in mind, introducing the Sola newspaper, |
| 0:20.3 | a quarterly print publication featuring articles on theology, |
| 0:24.2 | the historic creeds and confessions, and reflections for the Christian life, |
| 0:28.9 | delivered straight to your mailbox for free. |
| 0:32.7 | Subscribe at solamedia.org slash newspaper and we'll send it to you at no cost. Read it, mark it up, |
| 0:41.1 | leave it somewhere someone will find it. The solar newspaper, free today at solarmedia.org |
| 0:47.5 | slash newspaper. The faith is of course personal in some ways, right? You, Jesus Christ has personally died for you and your |
| 0:57.3 | sins and has brought you justification and life and resurrection and just gift after gift after |
| 1:04.0 | gift in his death or resurrection. But one of those gifts is the external calling into the church |
| 1:09.9 | and that his gifts persist not in just that |
| 1:13.2 | conversion moment for some people or you know at your baptism as an infant but for your whole life |
| 1:19.2 | in public things and that is where baptism comes into play yes doing things delivering the gifts |
| 1:25.5 | of faith and God's promises, but also marking you |
| 1:28.9 | and sealing you in a community. A baptism is something you don't apply to yourself. It's something that |
| 1:34.8 | somebody does to you, and where can you go for that? You're joined to a group of people in order to |
| 1:43.2 | one another with this word. |
| 1:52.2 | Welcome to a special production here at Solo Media. |
| 1:55.6 | I am joined by my friend Caleb Keith from 1517, the organization 1517, kind of our Lutheran brothers, |
| 2:05.1 | friends, doing a lot of similar work and you direct a lot of the podcasts and media stuff |
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