Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study. We are continuing today in the series the unsafe Christian reaching cultural

Christianity

With the gospel that is a book by Dean in Sarah

Pastry out of Tallahassee, Florida

And while I tell you this one is continuing to stir a lot of emails and a lot of questions and and I think this is good

You know with the really the reason why we're taking on this series is Paul telling us at that the end of his letter to the church

Corinth where he's telling us to always examine ourselves and to see if we're even of the faith

Examining ourselves with what it should look like for Christ to abide in our lives

According to scripture and then ask the uncomfortable question. Do we pass the test?

Remember this was a church that Paul was writing to and he saw a lot of open sin in the church

Which he did not take lightly and he was reminding these people of what we claim to believe

So here was a group of people meeting as a church that Paul saw a lot of open sin and he saw a lot of things that did not look

Like people who had truly been redeemed by by Christ

James and the book of James which we'll quote today here. He is talking to our church body

And James says I see things going on in this church body that shouldn't be going on something's wrong

And then you know, there's the call for action for them to assess themselves submit to God

Resist the devil come near to God meaning they lost their way

So cultural Christianity is extremely serious and as I've told you the reason why I hope that you can

You know take time if this is something that start to grind on you a little bit and remember that I'm teaching this from the point that I

Once was a cultural Christian

I was delivered from cultural Christianity and to true redemption and reconciliation

To a holy God through through the price paid by Jesus on the cross by repenting of my sins turning away from sin

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