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S2 Ep1010: #1010 - How to Deal with How You Feel: Dr. James Merritt

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Theology in the Raw

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Discipleship, Culture, Theology, Politics

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dr. James Merritt (Ph.D. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a pastor, writer, and speaker. He’s the founding and lead pastor of Crosspointe Church in Duluth, GA and has served as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He’s written several books including his recently released How to Deal with How You Feel. In this podcast conversation, we talk about this book and many other things related to what it’s like pastoring an SBC church through the last couple of years. 


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patreon.com forward slash Theology Neuro. That's patreon.com forward slash Theology Neuro. The link

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is in the show notes. Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology Neuro. My guest

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today is Dr. James Merritt, pastor of Cross Point Church and former president of the Southern

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Baptist Convention. He has a master of divinity degree and also a PhD from Southern Baptist

1:28.0

Theological Seminary. And James and I actually got to know each other just over the last

1:32.3

couple of years through his son, Jonathan Merritt, who I have known for a few years. And Jonathan

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connected me with his dad, James. And so James wanted to connect. And so we connected on the podcast.

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And just really appreciate his love for God's Word, his love for Jesus, his love for the gospel.

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