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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Churches Are Shutting Down and That's a Good Thing

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Churches are shutting down all across America and its not for the reason you think. Join us for a bold pocast on why I think it's a good thing some churches are shutting down.



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0:00.0

How many of you are new to Arizona?

0:02.6

You've moved here recently.

0:04.1

Let me let you in on a little pro tip.

0:05.9

There's no cold water.

0:07.2

No cold water at all.

0:09.0

It's, if it's hot, you're like, I'm going to go jump in the pool.

0:11.5

That is not a cold pool. That is a

0:14.0

lukewarm pool and it's not refreshing. It feels like a bath

0:20.4

outside so it feels awkward and then so then you think I'm going to go in the

0:23.9

house that's okay I'll take a cold shower there is no such thing as a cold shower

0:28.8

in the state of Arizona can I get an Amen? Amen.

0:32.6

There's no, it's just warm.

0:34.0

It's the same temperature as an old man's breath.

0:36.7

That's the water temperature, that's all we've got.

0:39.8

Okay?

0:40.7

How many of you, about this time of year, you're really kind of sick of lukewarm water?

0:45.1

Amen?

0:46.1

You're sick of it?

0:47.1

I'm sick of it too.

0:47.7

So to use that analogy, Jesus talks about certain people being quote unquote

0:53.0

lukewarm and he speaks to a church in a city called

0:56.7

Leo Dece in revelation chapter 3 and it was a lot like our town it was a desert

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