Comfortable Christianity
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Joe and Jimmy talk about the danger of "comfortable Christianity." How is comfort potentially at odds with the nature of the Christian life in the world? Is it fair to compare our desire for worldly comfort to the prosperity gospel? What's the difference between comfortable Christianity, and comforting Christianity? Plus, the guys are reading Covenant Children Today by Alan Conner, and Jimmy is taking off on a lake yacht.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by MyXP. MyXP is a ministry committed to helping pastors solve problems. |
| 0:06.3 | Head on over to my and devote. Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a podcast that explores Christian faith and practice |
| 0:28.0 | two times a week. From a Reformed Baptist perspective, my name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor of |
| 0:34.3 | Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles Illinois. And I'm Jimmy Fowler, executive pastor at Redeemer Fellowship. What's up, boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-t'o-o-o-o- Nothing. You know actually at this point. I will be on my way when this drops I am on my way to Kentucky. |
| 0:48.0 | Now are you on your way? This is this is gonna drop. |
| 0:51.0 | Yep, yeah. Technically this post at midnight the website is online at 1 a.m. |
| 0:55.6 | where are you right now in bed? Okay so you're not on your wet when this drops. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah well you when most people are listening to this exactly. I am on my way to Kentucky. |
| 1:04.0 | Are you and you're driving? |
| 1:05.0 | Driving. What? |
| 1:07.0 | Why you laughing? |
| 1:08.0 | Six hours. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, seven hours. |
| 1:10.0 | What? |
| 1:11.0 | Bathbreaks? |
| 1:12.0 | No, it actually. Oh, because you're not going to Louisville, you're going correct. |
| 1:15.0 | Got it, got it, got it. |
| 1:16.0 | Louisville's like six hours. |
| 1:17.0 | So yeah, heading on down. |
| 1:19.0 | Now, when you're in Kentucky, you got a fish, you're going to fish. |
| 1:24.4 | You're going to hang on the boat. |
| 1:25.6 | You're going to hang on the lake the whole time. |
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