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So good thank you 🙏🏽

thank you for lesson about Holy Spirit.

This was so excellent!!! I've loved Carmen's class on Exodus in Bible Project. Thank you with all my heart! Y'all are wonderful!

I’ve always thought apologetics was primarily the defense of the faith against false teachings within the church as well as cults that proclaim Christianity or oppose it.

SO GLAD I FOUND YOU & this ministry! I hv been so angry about Ravi & RZIM for years. Your experience & battle & message of hope & forgiveness has been very healing. Thank you! May God continue to bless you & your family

Thanks, Carson! I love your story of how you learned your purpose and identity. May more people understand that our identity comes from Jesus and we are to love him and people. Thanks again!

Thank you Carson, such a great video, It did help me in so many ways.

In my opinion, I believe that serving others has as great a power as the gospel of the forgiveness of sins. Thank you for your kind words.

It took 2000 years for God to tell someone to set Christians straight regarding the old testament?

Authentic…. Love it

So awesome Carson

So authentic, generous, and useful Carson. Thank you.

You seem nice. Unfortunately, the predominant impression that Christians make on others today is that they are judgmental, hateful, hypocritical people who are working to overthrow democracy. If you want to rehabilitate that image, then I wish you the best of luck. I wish I saw more Christians who I could honestly consider good, kind, or upstanding members of my community. Of late, they seem to be all the worst people. And good luck with your apologetics. Fundamentally, you have to tell people that they deserve to be tortured unless they think and act like you do. That's a hard message to sell. In my experience, the only people who do convert are desperate, unhappy people who already hold a poor opinions of themselves. Because of their downtrodden feelings, the self-degradation that Christianity teaches is an easy pill for them to swallow, epecially in light of its promises that things will work out better in the end. ("You're worthless, depraved by your very nature, never good enough, and you can't handle life on your own without god...") I have been listening to apologists for over 10 years. Apologetics appears to be intended for believers, not for converting nonbelievers. To nonbelievers, apologetics is very off-putting because nonbelievers are constantly misrepresented and maligned. To believers, it's a way to patch up any doubts they might experience, with assurances that smart people have considered these problems and found strong solutions, and anyone who disagrees must surely be lying or have bad personal character. On closer inspection, mainstream apologetics is little more than a bundle of common fallacies disguised with clever semantics, uplifting music, and hip young messengers with fancy sneakers, tattoos, and acoustic guitars. Arguments from ignorance, appeals to consequence, circular reasoning, ad hoc reasoning, and post hoc rationalization are among the most common fallacies that I see. As it happens, these are also exactly the tools that MLM reps and con men use. It's not a good look for Christianity.

Thanks for sharing this. So true that God uses imperfect people for his kingdom.

" If we walk in the light as he is in the light . . ." This verse came to mind as I listened to your thoughts. I suppose this passage has always been an encouragement toward confession and transparency, but you just put a "real world" example out there from your own life. The passage goes on to tell us we experience cleansing from sin and fellowship--in other words, we connect with others in valuable, supportive ways when we have the courage to be real Christians instead of the photoshop kind. Thanks Carson.

How can the dangers of this happening in church run biblical counseling programs be warned about without making all church counseling suspect? The power dynamic is extreme between someone in a spiritual position learning of others vulnerability, weaknesses, sin and abuse vs that person coming for "supposed help". It can be a recipe for further abuse. And there is little that can be done to combat it because if the person seeking help speaks out about hurt, abuse, power abuse etc. it can easily be turned on the counselee - they aren't trusting God, they are submissive to the counseling and moving forward anything shared can be taken to leadership and used as a weapon against the person. The counselor carries no accountability. The counselee can be setting themselves up for greater abuse, silencing, manipulation. Ultimately in my experience, forcing the person seeking help from the church to have to leave the church. Speaking of vulnerabilities with the wrong person will heap abuse ontop of abuse.

Sorry about your car... 😅😅😅😅 forgive them Carson. I love the way you connect this experience to how difficult we have come to appreciate and obeying Jesus. Unlike the dealer shop Jesus never disappoint or rejects our appointment with him. Jesus alway saves

No it will not,but when you become a Christian you will not want to use foul language at that moment.The only thing that will send you to hell is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

Thank you!!! ✝️🙏

Amen, Brother Carson! How can we reach those that are dissimilar to us for God's Kingdom? It is through Prayer and trusting that God and the Holy Spirit will do the rest. No circumstance or anyones biases will ever be perfect. My Wife was able to witness to some school girls the other day through Christian Rap playing in her car. Through Jesus there are minimal limits and biases.❤🙏💪🏁

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I like the idea of using my faith to improve politics. I agree that our faith needs to inform how we vote. I will ponder that my politics can be used to love my neighbor. I would add one thing. We need to pray for candidates we agree with and those we don't agree with to be saved and surrounded by godly influences.

As for myself I don't worry about it ☺️ because I know that God is in control 🙏🏻 and everything must come to pass 🙏🏻

Thank you so much for sharing - as a believer, I sometimes just want to ignore the whole situation. Giving great instruction on how we can be Christlike in this political turmoil is helpful. I will share your three thoughts as I talk with others. What a great opportunity we have to change the climate around us!

It's amazing that you use the term Yankee! I had a guy I met in nursing school and he was always saying you Yankees this you Yankees that and I never thought much about it, until it dawned on me that he was carrying hatred from the past, and when I questioned him about it he said that I was absolutely correct that they hated the north because of the fight over slavery.... I will also as of note say that when the verdicts came down against Donald Trump, you noticed that there was no burning down of buildings or looting, the word says you will know them by their fruits

I agree! God does want to bless us. Let's pray for his blessings.

This was very generous and helpful. Thank you. I'm signing up for the series.

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Thanks for your honesty and putting up some signposts for others so hopefully fewer victims will fall into the traps of those wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Wow. That's so amazing. God is Good

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I subscribe This is a very good and amazing content. A 2"x4" inches plank??? That's so thoughtful

This was a good conversation but sadly will never reach or become reality to so many of us who need it. When churches become about numbers and image management, run as a business organization, individual people no longer matter. People are just a commodity to be used for service and revenue. Losing my church community and the reality of being worthless to the church I had been a part of for almost 3 decades was even more difficult and compounded the issue I asked for help with. It would have been better to remain silent...except that I now know the truth. I appreciated it said that it would have been better not to get help than to get help from the wrong person. That was my experience and it caused far greater damage. I also appreciate it said that it takes a long time. I didn't heal fast enough for the church. I was told to get over it and get back to work for the church - literally. I left a year ago...my eyes have been opened to the silent carnage left in the wake of this "church ". I no longer see it as a church but as a religion business. Hurting, time consuming type people are a waste of their time and energy. Contrary to what I was told - no, I did not lose my faith - Jesus is my Savior, my everything. I have only lost trust in the institution of big business church. Part of me really would like to be in a church community again but that is not an easy thing and to make it even more difficult I am learning that other churches do not want to "welcome " or "inherit " someone coming in with hurt from a former church. I feel abandoned, shunned. If I get up the courage to express I'm having a hard time to another Christian I get the response to not take on a victim mentality. So the answer is...fake it, put on a cheerful smile, suffer in silence because no one truly cares. People sound caring in videos like this but that's fantasy land.

LOL Watching soccer will not encourage me in worshiping Christ! I only like soccer if my grandchild is playing…

I love the idea of transferring some of my day to day enthusiasm for temporal gods over to God. Every point of awareness that produces even a small redirection of some attention in God's favor counts. Thank you for the enthusiastic and colorful reminder to practice this. Go United!

Thank you for having this discussion with Boz.

Thanks Boz for being a friend to so many of us MKs who were abused in the missionary setting. You have been the lawyer we recommend to MKs at MK Safety Net.

Thank you for sharing!

What a beautiful take on the true potential and power of fasting. Thank you for this.

This was outstanding. Thank you. It is extremely helpful to empower church leaders with more knowledge about the nuances of insurance claims and their lawyers. Few pastors are familiar with these issues until they find themselves in the situation. Thank you.

This is the 2nd video Ive watched from Dr. Averbeck that when asked the question: How does the Law apply today, he does not give a satisfactory answer.

jesus died for nothing if you don’t sin 😋 nah genuinely i would like to ask for your pov on religion in general because personally i’m an atheist and i’m not trying to be disrespectful by leaving this comment i’m just trying my to learn about other religions

Amen

Philippians 4:4 is not an endorsement for positive thinking or stoicism. Jesus wept,He felt righteous indignation,lamented the stubbornness of His people. The psalms expressed lament and imprecation at times,Ecclesiastes,though gloomy at times,admonished fear of the Lord. The book of Job expressed dealing with pain and suffering.

Thank you for this information. Trying to get our church to handle things better, and get policies in place.... it feels like a losing battle. 😢

I love the simplicity. Sometimes we think prayer needs to be this formal thing that happens at certain times when in reality it can happen in a breath.

I've worked for both several Christian and non-Christian organizations over my lifetime (Im 70 now). If I felt I needed to bring up a difficult issue with leadership, without exception, the NON-Christians were much more open to hearing me out. Now, they weren't willing to change, but they at least heard me out. In all the Christian organizations, they made me the bad/wrong one, and I had to leave. There was no humility or willingness to hear anything I had to say, however gently. Is it any wonder people leave churches?

This is an amazing interview. What insightful questions !

I love the clarity and simplicity of this message.

Thank you so, so, so much for the honesty of both people in this video. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

There's a lot here. Thanks for exploring and discussing our relationships with God and each other