Honey, I Shrunk the Church - TBH 291
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Trapper finds himself bumping into churches, big and small. They all seem to be facing pivotal moments.
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| 0:00.0 | We should not look and think, oh, the poor church is collapsing, is being abandoned and this and that, or the church is strong, and we have all these wonderful buildings. |
| 0:17.0 | One day, all of those buildings will be nothing but dust. |
| 0:21.6 | And then where will our faith be if our faith has been in buildings? |
| 0:25.6 | In the end, we are a widowed mother who has lost her son and the few disciples who gather with her. |
| 0:35.6 | That is the church. |
| 0:38.9 | This is touched by heaven. |
| 0:40.9 | Everyday encounters with God, those moments when heaven and earth collide. |
| 0:46.2 | And we see God. |
| 0:47.0 | We see His hand reaching out to us, attempting to get our attention, |
| 0:51.4 | inviting us into a closer relationship. |
| 0:53.6 | So we talk about angel encounters and prophetic dreams and visions and near-death experiences and |
| 0:57.9 | such. |
| 0:58.6 | I am your host, Trapper Jack. |
| 1:00.9 | Honey, I Shrunk the Church. |
| 1:03.1 | Based on the movie of the same name, or similar name, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, |
| 1:06.4 | seem no matter which way I turned this week, I kept bumping into church. |
| 1:10.2 | And by church, I mean believers. |
| 1:11.7 | Maybe you go to church. Maybe you don't. Maybe you go to a little church. Maybe you're part of a big |
| 1:14.6 | church. Whatever it happens to be, we're just talking church. And it was just everywhere this week, |
| 1:19.1 | including the songs that bubble up in my head seemingly out of nowhere. For you and me, we look |
| 1:25.0 | around and maybe we see an incredibly shrinking church. Europe, |
| 1:29.7 | Canada, here in the U.S., maybe where you are. Africa is growing, though. In this episode, |
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