The Decline of Christianity in America – Tim Goeglein, 3/14/25 (0731)

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Tim Goeglein of Focus on the Family The Decline Of American Christianity Might Have Stalled. Will It Reverse? Stumbling Toward Utopia Toward a More Perfect Union

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0:41.8	We cannot raise niceness higher than truth. It is never compassionate to speak untruths to people.
0:46.0	I think that we've seen Christless conservatism actually fail on a variety of different fronts.
0:52.3	And that's because Christless conservatism is going to be very,
0:55.5	very subjected and susceptible to populism and popularity. We get to the edge of our reason,
1:03.4	and that's when we have to stop. If we keep walking, we would tumble over the cliff, but we don't
1:08.8	just stop there in frustration.
1:11.7	We stop there in awe and wonder.
1:14.5	It's when we get to the edge of our reason that we kneel down and worship God.
1:20.0	The church militant in some sense looks like maybe it's smaller on earth than it was a few
1:26.0	years ago.
1:27.2	But the church itself is only growing, right?
1:29.4	We only add to the church.
1:31.4	Because when we bury people, we're not losing them.
1:33.5	They're transferring the church triumphant.
1:35.1	Every time we baptize someone, we're just getting bigger.
1:37.7	You see Berkeley alumni who still support the freedom of speech, love, issues, etc. Fiat Lux and Go Bears.
1:48.2	The number of Americans who identify as Christian has been in decline. The surveys, the numbers
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