Welcome to the conversations that Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're going to go through just a few news items today. It's going to kind of be a little bit of a open-ended

fluid show, just a stream of consciousness I guess more or less on just some of

the news items and there's so many out there and every day's like this now I don't

remember it being this way even 10 years ago I mean news is always there's always been a

lot of things going on but now more than ever it seems like the news cycle isn't

even a day when it used to be a week you talk about new cycles and it would be sometimes a week or sometimes a few days and

The weekends were kind of a break from that and now there there really is no line

It's it's multiple new cycles in one day.

I would just want to highlight some things that are, I think,

relevant, pertinent, and important to the people who listen in this podcast audience

and just give you a few comments on them

and think think through what how should we approach this stuff how

should we think about it as Christians as Christians were living in the 21st century United States of America, a falling

America, a institutional church if you want to call it that. I'm not even sure

what word to use, but the church that had been there,

had been more strong at least, stronger, healthier, and it's also kind of rotting from the inside just as our country is how do we live and

think about what's going on around us and so I want to also not just give you

kind of the news and there are good things that are happening too.

I don't want to focus on the negative. There is a lot of negative. We can't get away from that.

There is a lot of negative stuff happening. So we're not going to get away from it. We're going to talk about it.

But I want to give you some practical things too.

Some things, because I thought about this a little bit.

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