12 Reasons the American Church Is Mostly Lame

– Episode 921 –

12 Reasons the American Church Is Mostly Lame

Segment 1 (0:00) – Discusses twelve reasons why American churches are lame. The culture reflects the church, therefore if the church is weak then its influence on the culture is weak also. Some of the reasons that churches are lame is due to wacky church TV, evangelical scandals, postmodernism, lack of evangelism, sexual revolution (Elvis), cultural influence, prosperity Gospel, weak theology.

Segment 2 (8:13) – Continuing list of reasons for lame churches; lack of church discipline, compromising for the goals of political activism, neo-gospel, false converts, seeker sensitive movement, liberal German philosophy.

Segment 3 (16:31) – The essence of German philosophy is that humans are able to stand above the Bible and judge it instead of being judged by the Bible. Here are seven reasons that could be learned from German theology; true religion can be lost in one generation, water-down theology will not convert skeptics, different gospel is not gospel at all, doubting the Bible and masking as believers is not honest, ideas have consequences, social gospel is alive and well, higher criticism is build on the notion that man ideas are higher than God’s. Defend the Gospel.