Welcome to Real Christianity, where our mission is to bring the church back to the Bible.

My name is Dale Partridge and I'm the president of Relearn.org and Reformation Seminary.

The premise of this show is simple.

The culture is growing darker.

The church is in need of sound doctrine and many Christians are hungry for the truth.

Join me here each week as we look to scripture and discover what it really means to be a Christian.

Welcome to the show.

A pastor once told me, Dale, if you believe wrong, you'll never live strong.

Now if we believe wrong about how to make a tuna sandwich, the consequences of not understanding

the proper steps aren't all that damaging.

But if we believe wrong about how we view God, his promises, or his commands, the consequences

are substantial.

Bad theology hurts people.

And for that reason, we must be very careful to interpret scripture properly.

The way you interpret scripture is called your hermeneutic.

I subscribe to what's called the literal grammatical and historical hermeneutic.

This means that I look for the natural and grammatical meaning of the text within the

historical and cultural context in which that passage was written.

In addition, I'm also cross-checking my conclusions with the rest of scripture and the historical

interpretation of the church.

So we're not looking at things in isolation, but in connection with scripture and the

historical interpretation of scripture because we know that the saints before us had

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