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The early church fathers are sometimes a mixed bag, but on certain subjects like the sacraments,

baptism, and the Lord's Supper, they speak with remarkable unanimity. Well, the reason for that is

scripture is pretty clear on both baptism and the Lord's Supper. Welcome back to Issues,

etc. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about the church fathers on the sacrament. Flame, he's

a Grammy-nominated Christian artist, author of the Issues, Et cetera, Book of the Month for July,

because Jesus taught it Christianity through the eyes of the Church Fathers.

Marcus, welcome back.

Yes, indeed. Glad to be back. Thanks for having me again.

Why is Pop Christianity often a historical and largely uninformed about the church fathers?

Yeah, it's a good question. I think pop Christianity is sort of contemporary expression

is mostly about individualism, fresh information, fresh insight, so they're always sort of clamoring after something new, something novel,

and that makes history, unfortunately, seem irrelevant and distant from this new fresh thing

that they're hoping God will do or that we could be a part of. So it's a disconnect between how God

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