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Summit Life with J.D. Greear

Hot Dog Faith, Part 2

Summit Life with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Man is incapable of constructing, or living up to, the true Gospel. In fact, left to our own devices we tend to twist and misconstrue what God designed as perfect. Our current series is called “Broken Saviors.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

0:02.1

Some religions think you use the carrot.

0:03.8

Oh, you want heaven, you want God's blessing.

0:05.7

Oh, go after it. You know, God's good. He's kind.

0:07.6

He's, you know, the others are like, no, use the stick.

0:10.2

You got to threaten him with hell. You got to threaten him with cursing.

0:12.5

The gospel is that God took the stick and beat Jesus with it, that handed you to care it for free, and then said, come and follow me.

0:34.9

Welcome to Summit Life with J.D. Greer, where the world-changing good news of the gospel takes front and center every day. I'm your host, Molly Bidovich. During the next

0:39.3

half hour, we'll see that man is incapable of constructing or living up to the true gospel. In fact,

0:46.3

left to our own devices, we tend to twist and misconstrue what God designed as perfect.

0:52.2

Our current teaching series is called Broken Saviors. To learn more

0:55.7

about our Bible teacher and to access materials that will help you go deeper into the gospel,

1:01.1

including this month's featured resource, go online to jd.gere.com. Today we're hearing the second

1:07.8

half of a message titled Hot Dog Faith, and it comes from the

1:11.0

book of judges. So grab your Bible and let's rejoin Pastor J.D. right now.

1:17.3

Many Americans build their faith like a cheap hot dog. They take a little bit of something from

1:21.8

this and a little bit of something from that and they mix it with a little bit of something else.

1:25.6

And the result is a concoction that you

1:27.5

could hardly call Christian.

1:29.0

It's more than simply bad for you.

1:31.2

It is spiritually toxic.

1:33.1

And that is what you're going to see with Jepta today.

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