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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, you'll hear from Mike Krueger on Can I Lose My Faith,

Understanding Apostasy. This message was originally given at TGC's 2021 Women's Conference.

Well, good afternoon, everyone. Great to see you here. Let me begin by welcoming you to this session.

My name is Mike Krueger. I'm the president of Reform Theological Seminary in Charlotte,

North Carolina, and you are in a session entitled Can I Lose My Faith, Understanding Apostasy?

And this session is actually sponsored by my own seminary. So that's easy enough, right?

So, Reform Theological Seminary is a sponsor, grateful for them, and just such a wonderful place

that I've loved working after the last 20 years. You have a booth here. You can come say hello to us,

check out our website rts.edu, but I just want to thank them for sponsoring this session. Let

me also begin by commending you for actually just being here today. I thought when I looked at

the schedule, I was like, I wonder what slot I have, and I found I'm in the very last slot of the day.

And then I'm like, so I've got this very difficult, weighty, heavy topic of apostasy. I was thinking

to myself, there's going to be like eight people here, but you showed up. So well done. In fact,

I was talking to my wife, Melissa, who you know is the director of Women's Initiatives and sort of

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