Do we understand Christianity?
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Pastor Allen Nelson preaching at By the Word Baptist Church in Azle, TX
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- The question comes to my mind, and my heart really, do we even really understand
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- Christianity in America? Budgets, buildings, bottoms in the seats, grand productions, flamboyant speakers, parties, law and gospel replaced with laissez -faire and godlessness,
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- Easter productions, what are we going to do during Easter to celebrate the resurrection of Christ?
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- I know, we'll pay lots of money, we'll get a helicopter to fly over, and we'll throw Easter eggs out of it.
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- Walking into some of these churches today, or maybe I should say so -called churches, is worse than Christian walking into Vanity Fair.
- 00:51
- Debauchery, idolatry, triviality, absurdity, you've got to see tonight that we need to understand
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- Christianity as it is given to us in this book. Is there anything in America anymore that looks like our text?
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- Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me as prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.