The Four Sins that Brought us to an Assassination Culture
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Carl Sagan speaks on the dangers of the feminization of the church and the impact it has had on our culture, and how we have contributed to it. He points out four reasons why the church has become feminized, and what we can do about it.
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What sins have we committed to bring such a judgment upon us?
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I think it's important to understand what got us here, so that we might not repeat them.
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And I think we could summarize them into four major categories.
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We have ordained the wrong men to the pastorate.
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On the one hand, many pulpits have been filled with these excellent communicators
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The problem is that they traded courage for comfort
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They are people-pleasing, donor-pleasing, giving-pleasing
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Controversy-avoiding compromisers that are more concerned with financial security and popularity
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Those people exist, and they exist not only in our nation, but also in our city.
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These men have diluted doctrine to accommodate the visitor.
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We have turned the church into a place of evangelism rather than the strengthening of the flock.
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They have feared women, and they have perverted compassion, and they have been painfully quiet.
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On the other hand, we have ordained intellectuals.
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Who love doctrine and scholastics, but they are out of touch with the pastoral reality.
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They have confused a love of knowledge with a call to be a shepherd.
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We have cultivated an effeminate form of Christianity
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The enlightenment taught if I can't rationalize it
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So, in the 1800s and early 1900s, we had the piety movement.
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This was heavily driven by the early feminist movement.
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But the piety movement declared, if I can't feel it, it isn't true.
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So, rationalization was, if I can't rationalize it, it's not true.
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This gave rise to what we call experiential Christianity,
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And as you know, who is more inclined to succeed in emotion?
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It was in this climate that we invented phrases like, it's not a religion, it's a relationship.
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It's in this climate where we began love song style worship music, where we sway our hips to Jesus.
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it's in this climate that we had the start of endless altar calls and baptisms and re-baptisms
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all of this institutionalization of emotion made men feel increasingly out of step with the church
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and the result was what statistically a mass exodus of men from the church
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and when men leave the church is left defenseless there is no one that is watching over and the men
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that stayed in these feminized churches became soft. In the
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absence of men, women pastors emerged, a new phenomenon of the
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last 50 or 60 years. The matriarchy rose, complementarianism
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has been birthed, and the church declined in power and
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conviction. Number three, we have compartmentalized Christianity because of the rise of dispensationalism
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in the early 1900s, which taught the church three powerful lies. Number one, to expect the inevitable
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cultural decline. We don't polish brass on a sinking ship. It's all going to hell in a hand
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basket. Let's just check out and wait. Number two, the imminent return of Christ and the rapture
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of the church. Number three, the victory of the scriptures is reserved for ethnic Israel,
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not the church. Those three lies shifted Christians from working to preserve society
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through the proclamation of the gospel and the standing of righteousness
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In doing so, we surrendered our schools, our politics, our media,
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our architecture, our arts, our finance, our economics.
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an influx of pagan cultures through immigration.
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Over the last 50 years, under the increasing feminization of the church,
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we have confronted evils with a soft, nurturing approach of empathy and accommodation
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rather than the masculine approach of confrontation and correction and uncompromising truth.
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This has produced what I call a conflict-averse church.
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A conflict-averse church with many conflict-averse pastors.
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We have gone from peacemaking to peacekeeping, which there is a wild difference.