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Hey, everyone, and welcome back.

This is episode two of our series, Reconsider Christianity, and I have entitled it Reconsider for a reason.

Last episode, I introduced the crisis of Christianity

within a predominantly Christian culture. I compared America to Nazareth, Jesus' hometown,

which was too familiar with Jesus to fully appreciate Jesus. In a sense, we have grown so accustomed to Christianity

that is difficult to see it as anything special. I said the crisis of a Christian culture is that

Christianity becomes merely a culture. And even worse, that Christian culture has a long history

of baggage associated with it.

How could it not?

Inevitably, with so many churches and so many Christians, chances are you or someone you care about has been harmed by Christianity.

So to summarize my first episode, Christianity within a predominantly Christian culture can

easily be viewed as harmless at best or even hurtful at worse.

Thus, if I'm going to ask you to consider Christianity, then I need to ask you to reconsider.

To block out all the cultural noise, see past

all the cultural mess, lay down all the cultural baggage, and with fresh openness, reconsider

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