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Do I Need to Be a Jesus Expert? Kevin DeYoung

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ever feel unable to meet Christian life demands? Author Kevin DeYoung explains that running the Christian race is filled with adventure—chasing holiness, battling for purity, and finding the good news in the ordinary.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So here's my question to you today.

0:02.0

Have you ever had a moment in your Christian life where you just thought,

0:06.0

I'm done, I can't do it, it's too hard?

0:08.0

Yes.

0:10.0

Besides last week? What happened last week?

0:12.0

I don't know, I was just when I didn't want you to redo the basement.

0:16.0

Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

0:27.0

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

0:30.0

You can find us at FamilyLife Today.com. This is family life today. I think there have been many times where I felt like I just can't do this

0:45.8

whether it be when we were dating trying to say pure with one another when I hadn't been in the past like this feels so hard.

0:56.5

Parenting when I felt like I'm totally ill-equipped and I'm not able to do this but

1:02.4

even spiritually of Lord, I don't think I have what it takes to walk this Christian life.

1:08.0

I feel like I'm constantly falling down. Have you?

1:11.0

Oh, many times. Yeah. I might have quit last week, but I'm kidding. But no, there have been especially when I came to Christ in college. There was a part of me early in my journey like, you can't live this life and this campus. This is something you live

1:26.1

later when you're an older man. You know it's just it's impossible and I'm bringing it up

1:31.6

because Kevin DeYoung's back in the studio and

1:34.2

Kevin you wrote a book called Impossible Christianity which sort of dives into

1:38.3

sort of that question. Well how about the subtitle? Yeah give the subtitle I can't

1:41.7

remember it but that's what the book is about.

1:43.7

So long I'm like we're gonna build the whole show around these these statements.

1:47.2

It's so good Kevin why following Jesus does not mean you have to change the world

1:52.2

which is what I thought I could do and you can't

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