Ep. 50: A Christian’s Response to Church (Part 1–Don’t Be a Scoffer)

M Is for Mama Podcast

Abbie Halberstadt

Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to the topic of “things Christians do” or “organized church,” it’s a bit of a free-for-all. You don’t have to be kind. You don’t have to be truthful. And you don’t have to take into consideration how making Christians/the church the butt of all your jokes affects the way the outside world looking in thinks about either/both (especially on social media).

Except we do. Scripture makes it very clear that 1. The Christian church is the bride of Christ (and that’s a big deal) and 2. We will be held accountable for “every careless word” we speak—Matt. 12:36 (and that’s a huge deal!).

Throw in Psalm 1, which urges us to avoid mockery and scoffing, and you’ve got a pretty compelling argument for treating this topic with the careful and honest handling it deserves. Does “the church” have problems? Yes. Will Christians fail us and do wrong things? Also, yes.

But that’s not where the story ends, and I want to approach this series with the goal of bringing our attitudes and thoughts about church under the Lordship of Jesus Christ—just like we do (or should do) everything else.

Bible References:

Genesis 1:26-28

John 1:1

Psalm 1

Ephesians 4:15

1 Corinthians 9:22

Ephesians 4:2

Hebrews 10:25

James 3:10

Philippians 4:8

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the MS-R-Mama podcast I'm your host Abby Halber-S-Wama podcast I'm your
0:07.4	host Abby Halber-Sat happy wife Mama to 10 Bible Believe in Christian and on today's podcast we're going to dive into a series that I want to do about the
0:17.2	bride of Christ, his church. But before we dive in, I want to talk to you about our sponsor,
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0:52.3	So I said that I was going to talk about the bride of Christ. We're going to talk
0:56.7	about his church and we're going to make that into a series and I have something really
1:01.4	exciting that we're going to culminate that with a guest that I have come to go on to talk about a particular aspect of theology that's affecting our church.
1:12.0	And I know that the name of my podcast is
1:15.0	Emma's for mama and I know that I tackle motherhood topics typically but I
1:19.1	really think that our theology affects everything about our lives.
1:22.5	Certainly it affects our motherhood.
1:24.6	Certainly affects the way we parent,
1:27.1	the way we pass down good beliefs and good tradition
1:31.0	and a good view of biblical truth and how we interact with other believers to our children.
1:38.8	And so I think you may see some more theological topics cropping up that may not specifically be motherhood
1:45.0	related but I do think bear great weight on how we interact with our mothering how we interact with the children that we are raising and the beliefs that we are engendering
1:59.4	in them, God willing, to carry out into the world.
2:03.0	And so I want to start kind of backing away
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