Do you have to Go to Church to be a Christian?
September 24, 2009
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Disillusioned with this Church Thing
Vast numbers of Americans are disillusioned with the church thing. Anne Graham Lotz (Billy Graham's daughter) is pretty fed up with it, and has written a book questioning the viability of church for Christians. In the immortal words of the folk musician, Don Williams, "I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate. . ."
These are pretty important questions in a world where family, faith, and community are fast disintegrating. Kevin Swanson gets down the basics in this program. What is a Christian? Does the church play into it at all? Whatever happened to Christian love and brotherhood in an indvidualized society where the faith was boiled down to an inner experience between me and Jesus?
Vast numbers of Americans are disillusioned with the church thing. Anne Graham Lotz (Billy Graham's daughter) is pretty fed up with it, and has written a book questioning the viability of church for Christians. In the immortal words of the folk musician, Don Williams, "I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate. . ."
These are pretty important questions in a world where family, faith, and community are fast disintegrating. Kevin Swanson gets down the basics in this program. What is a Christian? Does the church play into it at all? Whatever happened to Christian love and brotherhood in an indvidualized society where the faith was boiled down to an inner experience between me and Jesus?
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This is the retelling of the most exciting story in all of human history. Something truly remarkable occurred when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and gave His disciples a great commission. The world would never be the same again. Kevin Swanson takes the reader through the 2,000 year worldwide saga of this epochal mission to the world. From Judea to Rome, Ireland, Denmark, China, Japan, Uganda, New Zealand, and to the uttermost parts of the earth, the light of Christ shines into the darkness, transforming every nation throughout the centuries.