Letter to the American Church | with Eric Metaxas

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Would you have stood up against slavery in the 1860s? Or against Nazi Germany in the 1930s? What about your pastor? It seems the Church today is more interested in being politically correct than speaking out in defense of the truth. But can it really be God's will that His children be silent at a time like this? Best-selling author (Bonhoeffer, Luther, Amazing Grace, Miracles) and radio host Eric Metaxas joins Frank to reveal highlights of his new book, Letter to the American Church, where he summons the Church to battle and calls for pastors (and other Christians) to be courageous enough to speak up against the massive anti-Christian forces that now threaten to permanently transform American society. In this podcast episode, Frank and Eric bring to light four major errors we make in thinking that Christians should NOT be involved in politics or other controversial issues: A misunderstanding of the word FAITH. The idol of evangelism. There is no command "Don't be political!" Avoiding sin is not the central purpose of the Christian life. They also discuss the spiral of silence, religious liberty, and the haunting similarities between today’s American Church and the German Church of the 1930s. We hope you'll share both this podcast episode and Eric's book with your pastor and church congregation! To view the entire VIDEO PODCAST with Frank and Eric, be sure to join our CrossExamined private community and join us for some great conversation about this podcast and many other topics without fear of being canceled by your friends, family, or co-workers! Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3qeeRtp Eric's website: https://ericmetaxas.com/ If you would like to submit a question to be answered on the show, please email your question to Hello@Crossexamined.org. Subscribe on Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/CrossExamined_Podcast Rate and review! Thanks!!! Subscribe on Google Play: https://cutt.ly/0E2eua9 Subscribe on Spotify: http://bit.ly/CrossExaminedOfficial_Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Stitcher Download Transcript

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.3	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:05.6	Does God exist?
0:07.4	So when someone says there is no truth,
0:09.8	if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:12.6	Is that true?
0:15.2	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:17.7	They're talked out of it.
0:20.0	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.0	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.2	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:28.0	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Torek.
0:32.8	Let me ask you a few questions.
0:35.4	If you lived in the South in 1860,
0:39.8	would you have opposed slavery?
0:42.4	Or if you lived in Germany in the 1930s and the 1940s?
0:47.9	Would you have opposed the Nazis?
0:51.0	Would your pastor have opposed slavery?
0:54.5	Or opposed the Nazis?
0:56.8	I don't know about you, but many of the pastors I see out there
0:59.6	they won't even oppose Facebook.
1:02.4	And yet you're saying they would have opposed slave owners?
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