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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Part of the problem is that everything has been

conflated. And this is due to theological, what I would call theological minimalism. Most of the

problems that we're dealing with today, as they stem from the

church, and they do, it's due to the church's laziness, theological laziness. What we determined was

this. We determined that doctrine divides. That became the mantra. And we didn't want to be divided.

And so what we thought was, well,

what if we could just somehow limit and narrow the doctrines that actually matter enough to hold?

And we'll do all this in the name of the Great Commission, right? Because dispensationalism and pre-millennialism have done a great number on the church over these past 150 years.

And so in light of that, we began thinking, well, we're really just working towards the imminent

and relatively soon return of Christ. And if there's anything that we can do, as it pertains to

us as Christ's people, to speed up the clock, as it were, it would be to

evangelize the nations, that we would go to the four corners of the earth, that all would hear

the preaching of the gospel, and that that would usher in the return of Christ. And one of the great

inhibitors to evangelizing the nations, fulfilling this mandate to global missions, is the fact that the

church is so divided. And one of the main reasons that we're so divided is because we can't agree on

doctrine. You've got some guys wanting to dunk babies. You got other guys who don't want to dunk babies.

They do the same thing in their baby dedications they just remove the water

it's really kind of semantics but still it's a big deal you know and then you've got some people

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