The State of the Churches
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Knowledge is not what saves us, but faith cannot be devoid of content, for one must have faith in something. Part of being a Christian is, unsurprisingly, knowing the content of the Christian faith. Or, perhaps, this would be surprising to many, given the state of knowledge and belief among those claiming to be Christian — even among the best (in terms of knowledge and right belief) of those claiming to be Christian.
In today’s episode, we return to the state of the churches. This time, we examine the general state of knowledge and belief among Christians. Do Christians even know the basics of the faith? For most, the answer is very clearly: No.
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- Ligonier — “State of Theology” Survey Results
- Pew Research Center — “Religious Landscape Study” Survey Results
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| 0:00.0 | The The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:45.2 | On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing the state of the church again. |
| 0:50.3 | We've done a few episodes in the last five months or so where we talked kind of about the church in general. |
| 0:56.3 | We did a recent episode we talked about apostasy as kind of the tail end of some of the heresies that slipped into the church. |
| 1:03.6 | This is going to be another episode where we're talking about the answers that Christians have to a series of questions |
| 1:10.2 | have been asked by two different polling organizations. |
| 1:13.6 | The first set of data that we're going to be using is the Pew Longitudinal Survey from 2014, |
| 1:19.6 | and the second is going to be a survey conducted most recently in 2022 by Lingenier Ministries. |
| 1:26.6 | Both the surveys were in the United States. |
| 1:30.6 | They talked to people both who were Christians and non-Christians. We are principally going to be |
| 1:35.6 | focusing on the data from inside the church. And the reason that we're doing this episode today |
| 1:41.1 | is that there have been numerous times in the past, |
| 1:44.2 | or we will talk about things like teachings of demons, we'll say that there's certain things |
| 1:48.1 | that are very clearly heresies, we will sometimes say very specifically that if you believe |
| 1:53.8 | this sort of thing, you can't be saved. And those are all scriptural approaches. But as we said |
| 2:00.0 | in the Judge Not episode, or the episode on judgment, |
| 2:03.4 | we dealt with the fact that while we as Christians living today are not only called but |
| 2:11.3 | equipped to act as jurists in the matter of is a statement that a man makes true or false, |
| 2:17.2 | that is not the same as judging the |
| 2:19.1 | final disposition of that man's soul. So, for example, in the episodes on Bonhoeffer and MLK, |
| 2:25.3 | we stated with absolute certainty those men are in hell right now, because there was nothing |
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