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Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

Upside Down, Part 2 - "Greater Indeed"

Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast

Andy Stanley

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

People who use their religion to justify the mistreatment of others are not only on the wrong side of history—they’re on the wrong side of God.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to your move, I'm Andy Stanley.

0:02.2

Did you know that when people use religion to justify mistreating people,

0:05.9

not only are they on the wrong side of history,

0:08.5

Jesus would be quick to remind them that they're on the wrong side of God,

0:12.2

and that maybe the reason you are not a fan of religion,

0:15.2

but you are still okay with Jesus, me too.

0:18.0

And that's what we're talking about today, right here, on your move.

0:20.8

When you grow up in a religious home or you grow up in a religious environment like I did,

0:33.2

it's easy to love your religion more than you do the people for whom the religion was given.

0:40.4

And then if you're not careful, you end up hurting people with the religion that was given for people,

0:47.0

and then you wonder why people don't want to get involved in your religion.

0:50.2

And round and round and round it goes.

0:52.5

In fact, some of you, that's the reason you gave up on religion or you gave up on church,

0:55.8

is because you ran into some church people who seemed to love their church and love their religion more than they loved you.

1:01.8

And that was just kind of odd, wasn't it?

1:04.0

That was just kind of odd.

1:05.2

And the most important thing about this series in terms of tracking along with Jesus is I want you to understand,

1:10.2

and I wish the world to understand that Jesus came to introduce something new.

1:14.8

He did not come to show up, he did not show up to continue something old.

1:19.0

It wasn't version 2.0 of something, he didn't come to complete the book so you know we'd have a whole Bible.

1:24.3

Jesus came to earth, God sent his son to this planet to do something brand new in the world for the world.

1:32.2

He came to establish a brand new covenant or brand new contract or arrangement between God and all of mankind.

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