To kick off Season 12, we're introducing a series of honest conversations we think people are feeling but aren't having starting with a simple idea:

I'd trust Jesus a lot more if it didn't require trusting other Christians.

We know we haven't been hurt by Jesus, but many of us have been hurt by other Christians. Sometimes that hurt was intentional, but more often than not it's been unintentional because people are, well, people.

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By every metric, the American Evangelical church is not in a healthy place. We've spent the last few months talking about how Cultural Christianity is killing the American church.

So now we ask - can it even recover from Cultural Christianity?

In this bonus episode, we talk about four things we believe are needed for the American Evangelical church to heal.

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So the election happened...

And not too long after it, we saw the wave of social media posts deify Donald Trump as God's chosen savior of our country along with any number of messages filled with mean-spirited language about people who voted for Kamala Harris.

If you're like us, that's left you feeling some sort of way.

In this bonus episode recorded two days after the election, we talk through a framework of how we can process what we're feeling and move forward in the tensions between how we believe we should apply our faith to the culture around us and the way a large portion of the evangelical church has decided to apply theirs.

PS - the whole episode can be summed up in the final 30-seconds. We think the entire thing is good, but fast forward there if you just want the cliff notes.

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Our definitions of cultural Christianity:

Spiritually immature Christians who have been discipled more by evangelical culture than the actual Bible.

and/or

Christians who are more concerned with applying their Christian preferences to the culture than they are in achieving unity in Christ with those who may have different preferences.

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