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- The decline of the study of theology has not only been within the secular realm, but it has also been within the realm of the church as well.
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- The study of theology has been replaced with emotionalism, pragmatism, and minimalism.
- 00:24
- Emotionalism, what's that? Emotionalism says, whatever makes me feel good, that's right.
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- Pragmatism says, whatever works, that's right.
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- And minimalism is, whatever the minimum amount that I need to know, that's all I want to know.
- 00:49
- And that's what has replaced theology in the church.
- 00:53
- As Dr.
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- Sproul went on to say, we now have a religion without theology and a theology without theology.
- 01:02
- And the results have been disastrous for the church and for the culture.
- 01:09
- There is a widespread ignorance within the Christian community in regard to the nature of God, the person of Jesus Christ, and the definition of the gospel.
- 01:21
- Churches have become entertainment centers, rather than centers of higher learning, which they are supposed to be.
- 01:33
- Churches are not supposed to be entertainment centers.
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- They are supposed to be houses of higher learning.
- 01:40
- The church has reached the point that the Apostle Paul prophesied about in 2 Timothy 4 in verse 3.
- 01:48
- He said, For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and they will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
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- Beloved, we are there.
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- We are absolutely there.
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- The church has, in many ways, abandoned its call to be an institute of theological instruction.
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- And because of that, the way that the world sees God has changed dramatically.
