Why Do I Need a Church?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Do we really need a church? Why can’t we just be spiritual instead? Dr. Edward Sri explains not only why God gave us the Church, but why it is a gift for us and a necessity to be brought into a familial relationship with him.
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“God sent his son, Jesus Christ, and he set up a church. He gave his authority to the apostles and their successors to pass on his teaching.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome in God, I believe in Jesus, and I've got good moral values I don't kill people I don't rob banks and you know I'm a good person why do I need a church you know these are questions many people are asking especially the younger generation in |
| 0:33.8 | our increasingly secular culture and they'll say things like you know I don't want |
| 0:39.0 | rules I just want a relationship I don't want institutional religion I just want Jesus you know and |
| 0:45.7 | where is this all coming from and how do we respond that's what I want to look at in today's |
| 0:51.2 | episode so welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host |
| 0:54.5 | Edward Sri and I want to welcome any new listeners that are out there especially. It was |
| 0:59.2 | such a blast, the last few weeks getting to meet many of you as I've been speaking in Texas and |
| 1:03.8 | Pennsylvania. I was at the Texas A&M gathering there in College Station at |
| 1:09.3 | St Mary's, their Newman Center there. It was an incredible event. They had six, seven hundred college |
| 1:14.4 | students coming out on a weeknight to hear me give a short talk about discipleship and then they had |
| 1:19.6 | euchristic adoration and praise and worship. I was so moved by 600 college students just so faithful. |
| 1:26.0 | Thank you for your witness there in Aggy Land. I'll be praying for you all and |
| 1:30.4 | then I had a chance to speak at two different women's conferences |
| 1:33.6 | one in San Angelo Texas the other in Allentown Pennsylvania and I love |
| 1:37.6 | speaking at women's conferences I know you're wondering well you're a guy what are you doing |
| 1:41.6 | speaking there and for whatever reason I get asked a lot to speak at women's conferences but I'll tell you I love them because I feel like Mary I feel blessed among women but but more than that I always meet such faithful, joyful witnesses to our Catholic faith. |
| 1:57.2 | These women who are pouring their lives out in their families and in their parishes and their community and so many of them are involved in small group studies and it's just so encouraging to see these sisters coming together |
| 2:10.5 | rallying around God's word in the Catholic faith and I just want to |
| 2:13.8 | thank you for your witness thank you for your faithfulness in our world today and |
| 2:17.6 | my prayers are with you as well. But let's go back to this question about why do I need a church? Where is this all coming from? |
| 2:26.1 | I want to talk about that in a moment, but first I want to get our bearing straight. I want you to know what |
| 2:29.7 | the word church means. A lot of people have a perception of churches like that |
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