Good morning everyone. I just want to make a quick response to this video which is trending right now on Twitter.

He actually talks in there about the difference between the older way of viewing institution was that the institution existed to form and shape us, but now with this individual expression idea, we've turned institutions into platforms upon which we express ourselves.

And really, we've done that kind of with the sacraments.

We've done that with our corporate.

It's all exists to serve me.

Yeah, it all exists.

It's all a chance for me to kind of express who I am.

We've done that with our corporate worship.

We kind of, yeah, we've done that. Think of the definition that you've heard of baptism

most of your life, right? It's an outward sign of an inward truth.

It's a way that I stand up and say to the world,

I'm a Christian now, right?

That is a new modernist understanding

of our selfhood that we're coming into the world and the world said hey I can I can run with that definition of selfhood and they've been running down this road a long ways and now because of the paganism getting to the point where you need a phallic symbol to latch on to, you know, that the for your identity, right, this is what we run into, but the reality is this is just American Baptist theology secularized.

If I, you know, there's another issue too.

So you might, you have the individualism thing that you're talking about.

Here's another clip.

The show, but didn't get the chance.

You know, let's say I'm Baptist Wrench.

Yeah.

And you just said what you said.

I know. David gave me permission.

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