What If You Don’t Feel Saved? Plus More Q&A
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Are strong emotional experiences required for salvation? Can you be a true follower of Jesus if you don’t "feel" saved? Many Christians wrestle with the gap between what they believe and what they experience during worship or Bible study time . But does the saving grace of Jesus come from a feeling or a decision?
This week, Frank unpacks the danger of grounding your faith solely on feelings. He also tackles other listener questions related to politics, culture, and from a liberal listener on parenting in a digital age. Questions addressed include:
- Is a lack of emotion during worship a sign of a weak faith?
- What are the 3 essential aspects of human psychology?
- How is marriage in this life an illustration of our ultimate union with Christ?
- What's the difference between "belief that" and "belief in"?
- Did Jesus tell us to stay out of politics?
- Are only atheists qualified to run the government?
- Why didn't God stop Satan?
- How can parents effectively shield their children from harmful content on social media?
- What does dangerous online content teach us about human nature?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, why am I wearing this hat? |
| 0:05.2 | I'll get to it. But let's talk about what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:09.0 | We have some questions that have come in. |
| 0:12.0 | Can you be a believer in Jesus and be saved if you don't have feelings or emotions like other people do when they worship Jesus. |
| 0:21.5 | We're going to try and cover that. |
| 0:22.6 | That's a question that's come in. |
| 0:23.8 | Second question, when Jesus said that his kingdom is not of this world, |
| 0:27.6 | does that mean we should not be concerned about politics and government in this world? |
| 0:33.4 | Or maybe other aspects of this world. |
| 0:37.4 | Also, somebody wrote in and said, why didn't God stop |
| 0:39.7 | Satan immediately? That could have saved a lot of trouble for everyone. We also had a question |
| 0:45.8 | come in from a left-leaning listener about parenting. I hope we can get to that. But the reason |
| 0:51.5 | I'm easy for me to say, the reason I'm wearing the live free hat here is because |
| 0:58.6 | I was just privileged to be on the live free podcast when I was down in Dallas last week |
| 1:04.7 | with my friends Carlos Arazo and Paul Cunningham. That's the podcast that Josh Howardton leads. |
| 1:12.0 | Josh was on a trip, I think a footsteps of Paul trip in Greece. |
| 1:17.6 | And as you may know, Josh is the pastor of Lake Point Church down there in Dallas, |
| 1:23.3 | kind of on the east side of Dallas. |
| 1:25.4 | I think Rockwall or that area is where the church actually is. |
| 1:29.0 | And they now have the number one podcast, the Live Free podcast, the number one podcast in America. |
| 1:37.0 | That is a religious slash spirituality podcast in that category on Apple Podcast. |
| 1:42.5 | They just overtook Pastor Mike Schmitz, who has been in |
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