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Passion City Church Podcast

Why Christianity is Not a Crutch

Passion City Church Podcast

Passion City Church

Messages, Religion & Spirituality, Passioncitychurch, Christianity, Passionconferences, Church, Sermons, Passion, Louiegiglio

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week Pastor Louie Giglio continues our VICTORY series with a message that is timely to the days we are living in. Teaching out of Mark 2:1-12 Pastor Louie reminds us of a few critical things: 1. Our faith can move the heart of God and impact the eternal destiny of someone around us. 2. The paralyzed man's problem was bigger than he thought. 3. Jesus didn't offer a crutch. He healed him.

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You are listening to the Passion City Church podcast.

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To learn more about Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington,

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visit us online at passioncitychurch.com.

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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Gaglio.

0:22.0

I love that our text today is found in Mark chapter 2,

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the great stories of our faith.

0:30.0

So if you've been around church, you're going to know this particular text.

0:33.0

If you're not around church a lot, you're going to be blown away by this story.

0:38.0

This eyewitness story of what happened in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

0:43.0

And I'm encouraged today because I was sharing with Ben steward earlier about the message

0:48.0

that I was going to share today and he said, no way.

0:50.0

If we had had an online gathering in DC, I was going to preach on the exact same passage today.

0:56.0

So I feel like we're on the right track at Passion City Church today.

1:01.0

I've titled the message, why Christianity is not a crutch.

1:06.0

I was listening to talk radio, which I don't normally do, but I think all of us have listened to a little talk radio this week.

1:12.0

And someone had called in and said, hey, I saw where the president declared this national day a prayer.

1:17.0

If there was a God, this wouldn't be happening.

1:20.0

And nobody needs to be asking some imaginary God to solve a very real problem.

1:25.0

We need to put our minds together and solve this.

1:28.0

And then the caller used this phrase, which I've heard people use many, many times in life.

1:34.0

And the caller said, and by the way, Christianity is just a crutch.

1:39.0

I think their actual words were religion is just a crutch for the week.

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