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Thank you. I appreciate that your guest changed to Lutheran as an adult. I have come to realize im accidentally Lutheran in my belief. But I am currently a member of a wonderful Baptist church. I love the constant reminders in the liturgy of our state as sinners. I appreciate that the gospel is for everyone, saints and sinners alike.
I am really struggling with where I belong. The churches I was raised in just ring hollow and I do not even know fully why. The typical evangelical church these days seems so off course. I am considering going to a new denomination but feel intimidated. This video has spoken to several years of my own questioning.
I started going to a Confessional Lutheran church in September of 2022 for pretty much the same reason. I knew Rome had a wrong view of justification so I didn't want to go that route. So I decide to go to the local Lutheran church and I haven't looked back. Obviously I don't know everything and am still really new but it has been a huge eye opener. Pretty much everything I had been told about Lutherans was from second hand sources and it was all proved false. The liturgy is beautiful and the preaching is sound.
@@pleasevans6394That sounds like me. I've been a member of a Lutheran Church for a little over a year after studying it for a few years. Grace really means grace without legalism backdoored in later like in so many other churches.
My experience as a evangelical is that we are saved by grace, but we sure do need to work hard to keep it. Or to prove to God and ourselves how much we love Him.
Yeah, that's not biblical. What do you believe? The Bible teaches that salvation is a gift from God because of what Jesus did and that God gives us a new heart so that we can obey him NOT because we need to earn his love (God loves us SO he sent his Son to die for us). We do works (in every day life) because we are free from the bondage of sin and now we want to please God. I hope that makes sense. I'll gladly clear things us and give biblical passages that teach this if needed. ^^
@@LadyoftheBunnies I 100% agree. I'm just reporting how it played out culturally in my Homeschooling Bible Belt upbringing. "Saved by grace through faith." 🙌🏻 My upbringing would agree with that statement but it played out like I described. I saw a magnet once that said, "Jesus is coming; look busy." My pastor husband HAD to get it because that's what it felt like. Until he was so burned out he won't step foot in a church. He's still a believer. But he's exhausted and drained.
@@derickrae Oh, ok ^•^ just making sure and if someone stubbled on the comment too and thought that was biblical. That's sad about the pastor. All law and barely any gospel really drains people and distracts them from what Jesus has already done. I always pray for people who believe that the gospel is for non-believers and believers need to work. No balance of law and gospel.
I see that the church or some churches have become all about the seeker or unbeliever and not about the Christian who needs to be feed spiritually and receive each week
