Question Leaders
Amen Podcast
Alex Wilson
5 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This episode encourages Christians to question their leaders. Using Matthew 8:14 as a starting point, Alex highlights the importance of seeking truth and understanding in faith, even when it means questioning authority. He shares personal anecdotes of times when he blindly followed religious authority, leading to negative experiences. Alex emphasizes the need for personal connection with God and encourages listeners to seek answers for themselves. AmenPodcast.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Matt. Hello, hope you're having a great week, a great day. I hope this episode finds you well. |
| 0:06.6 | Locke Lonnie and I took the kids to the beach today and as we were watching the kids playing |
| 0:10.8 | the water, we started thinking about what if we did another episode on the Alex Wilson podcast |
| 0:15.6 | because the main sermon, the main episode of Amen podcast, the big sermon, it went in a different |
| 0:24.1 | direction. And then we had these little nuggets that kept rearing their heads. And I was just |
| 0:28.9 | thinking, okay, maybe we should talk about this because we have friends in our life who don't |
| 0:32.8 | question Christian leaders. Now, we're not talking about challenging Christian leaders. |
| 0:36.5 | We're talking about questioning them. Why do they do the things they do? Why do they teach the things they teach? Is it |
| 0:41.7 | lining up with the Word of God? Jesus did this. He questioned religious leaders because he had the |
| 0:47.2 | ultimate authority and he was, and has always will, always will be God. And so he gives us the power because he gives us the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:58.1 | Now, I'm going to share with you two really heavy stories at the end of this episode. |
| 1:03.3 | And there are two examples of when I was young and older. |
| 1:07.1 | And I didn't question Christian authority and the horrible place they brought me to. |
| 1:12.5 | And there are stories I don't really want to tell, but I'm going to tell them. |
| 1:15.8 | I've never told them online. |
| 1:17.9 | But in this instance, I'm excited to share with you then because I want you to look at Matthew |
| 1:21.5 | 814 with me and see how we're encouraged to question Christian leaders, the need for it, the problem with it, |
| 1:28.5 | and the solution on how to do it when it gets a little frightening. Here we go. Matthew 814. |
| 1:35.8 | And when Jesus arrived at Peter's house, Peter's mother-in-law was in bed with a high fever. |
| 1:40.4 | Okay, so what's going on here? Jesus goes to Peter's house, meets his mother-in-law. |
| 1:46.9 | Charles Spurgeon, the Prince of Preachers, his commentary on the Gospel of Matthew told me, as I'm reading it, he pointed out that Peter was married. |
| 1:58.7 | The Catholic Church, the popes, and the priests, they say they fall under |
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