Why are so many leaving the church? | Rapp Report Daily 0162 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. We often hear it asked, why are people leaving the church?
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- Andy Stanley actually tried to address this recently. However, I think the question, why are people leaving the church when referring to children who are raised in the church and then walk away supposedly from the faith is a false question.
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- You see, look at what the question says. Why are people leaving the church as if they were once part of the church?
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- Or why are they walking away from a faith as if they once had the faith? And the reality is we know from 1
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- John 1 .19 that those who leave the church, the visible local church, those that leave that do so to expose that they were never of the church.
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- This is the important thing to remember. They went out from among us because they were never of us to expose that they were not of us.
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- So what you end up seeing is they didn't leave the church. It's not a question of why are people leaving the church or why are they leaving the faith.
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- The fact is they were never part of the invisible universal church, meaning believers only, because they didn't have the faith.
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- To even ask questions like this emboldens the professing atheists who try to use their fact that they grew up in a church as a statement of authority on Christianity when all they were were hypocrites that stopped pretending.
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- No one's leaving the church because you can't leave the church. This podcast is part of the
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