Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Here's the podcast from Susie Larson Live. Enjoy the conversation.

So, won't we do it?

You're listening to an encore presentation of Susie Larson Live.

I'm Sousie Larson, and always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

the deep in your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

We are going to be doing,

We are the church series. About once a week, I'm going to have a guest on. We're aiming for Thursdays.

We just can't always make it work that way. When we look at the big umbrella of what is the church,

you know, the gates of hell will not prevail because the church is still alive and well.

That's a line from a wonderful worship song, and it's true. But there are

issues to address. There are hurts that need to be healed. There are course corrections that need to

happen. And there are great, great things happening in the church. So over the next weeks,

we're going to have different guests on to talk about just different aspects of the fact that

we are the church. So if you sit on the

outside and you critique and you criticize and you're a Christian, you're out of line because we

are the church. So we need to be part of the solution. And normally I have my own way of opening

the show with my own words, but I got to say, I couldn't say it better than my guest. And so I'm going

to just read what she writes. She says this, the last 10 years have brought the largest deconstruction

movement in the evangelical church has seen in our lifetime. Movements and marketing campaigns,

coaxing people back into the pews, are no longer working. The man-made strategies and plans to get

believers and non-believers through their doors aren't as

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