Spirituality Is Measured by Spiritual Fruit, Not Spiritual Gifts

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg explains that spirituality is measured by spiritual fruit, not spiritual gifts, then he answers questions about preterism, evidence for a beginning of the universe, the law requiring rapists to marry their victim, and whether or not Genesis 1 indicates God created chaos.

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0:00.0	La La La La La,
0:02.0	La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the show of
0:30.0	Oh, well, I guess it's my turn.
0:31.3	I'm sitting here looking at my notes and all of the side of here that is it coming up.
0:35.2	Oh, I guess I got work to do here.
0:36.9	Greg Kochel here, the show is Stand of Reason, and thank you for up. Oh, I guess I got work to do here. Greg Cokel here,
0:38.3	the show is Stand a Reason, and thank you for joining me today. We're going to be taking
0:42.1	a lot of our calls here from our open mic list, that is where you can call in at your leisure,
0:49.9	or I should say connect at your leisure, usually on a website, going to our homepage at
0:54.8	STR.org, under podcasts, look at live podcasts, and then follow the prompts to leave your question,
1:01.9	and then we can play it, you know, when we get to it here on the show, you don't have to
1:05.3	be present for that. There was, I wanted to make an observation, though, before I get to these
1:10.2	calls.
1:14.3	And this is actually something I thought of many, many years ago.
1:19.3	But it bears mentioning, I think.
1:24.7	And that is that here I answer questions.
1:26.5	I've been doing this for 35 years.
1:31.3	People call in, ask a question, and I offer my thoughts on it.
1:32.9	Sometimes it's good.
1:34.3	Sometimes it's not so good.
1:34.7	Whatever.
1:35.8	You're the judge on that.
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