Does the Gospel Fit In With Culture? | New Testament | 2 Timothy 4

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

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Summary

Where are you willing to accommodate the gospel to fit in better with your culture? Do you take the threat of false teaching seriously? In today's episode, Patrickdiscusses 2 Timothy 4 and the danger of striving to fit in. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Timothy 4

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:14.0	Do you love the truth? Are you prepared to speak it?
0:18.0	To defend it?
0:19.0	In the 1930s, a nationalistic movement swept across Germany. Its leaders wanted Germans to return to their
0:26.0	roots, to their past greatness, to their Germanic heritage. And they often said that part of this was
0:31.1	their Lutheran Christian heritage. Maybe it's not that surprising
0:34.4	but there were a lot of church leaders who found this message thrilling, but it was an exercise in
0:39.6	foolishness. By the end of that decade, this nationalism became militaristic and anti-Semitic.
0:45.4	It became Naziism. German greatness and ethnic supremacy were ascendant.
0:50.4	And they hadn't really become a Christian nation.
0:53.7	No, the church had just become a national propaganda machine.
0:57.2	This always happens with nationalism.
0:59.3	It's always the state that's in charge with the church as the court prophet. By the end of that
1:04.0	decade Germans wouldn't be surprised to see swastikas on the altars of their
1:08.2	churches beside the scripture and the communion bread and wine. Very few Christians spoke up.
1:13.8	Very few Christians saw the threat.
1:16.0	They only saw the possibility of national greatness for the church.
1:19.5	You see, they didn't love truth more than power, and they certainly weren't prepared to speak truth to power
1:26.5	What about you? Speaking for truth will look different in every generation and some generations
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