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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 6 - The Danger of Christian Clichés

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

“God won’t give you more than you can handle.” “God helps those who helps themselves.” “Washed by the blood.” Christianese or clichés can be harmful and untrue. And others can be true but weird-sounding to new Christians or nonbelievers. The guys discuss clichés to avoid and Christianese that often need clarification. Send us Fan Mail Thanks for listening! If you’ve been helped by this podcast, we’d be grateful if you’d consider subscribing, sharing, and leaving us a comment and 5-star rating...

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God helps those who help themselves, and cleanliness is next to Godliness.

0:06.5

Guys, I wonder how many people actually really think that these things aren't scripture.

0:11.2

Had a friend's dad once adamantly told me that God helps those who help themselves

0:18.7

was in the Bible, like, beyond the shadow of a doubt, but I want us to talk about that today.

0:26.0

Christian cliches.

0:28.7

I think they both come from God helps those who are into cleanliness.

0:32.2

These are all coming in second opinions, the book of second, easy lonesians.

0:40.4

But you know, cliches are, or we can call them cliches, we can call them christines.

0:47.0

We can call them coined addages within Christianity that carry with them some dangers.

0:56.7

And I think that's why it's important that we talk about this.

0:59.0

We often say ideas have consequences, and it's true.

1:03.4

They do, and sometimes those little maxims, if you would, can really shape someone's

1:10.0

thinking.

1:11.0

You know, little things.

1:12.0

I remember when I was a kid, my mom used to tell me that in heaven, God was going to make

1:17.4

you pick up every grain of salt you've ever dropped on the ground with your eyelashes.

1:22.3

Have you read that first?

1:25.1

And I believed it.

1:26.1

And this was right after I was taking the salt shaker outside, you know, we're at half

1:30.8

of a perfectionist.

1:31.8

I mean, that's what it is.

1:33.6

Now, I just got done, like, you know, making it snow with the salt shaker outside in my

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