Episode 26: The Danger of Hypocrisy, Christian Conspiracy Theories, Baptists and the Nicene Creed, How Does Love Your Enemies Factor Into Politics? With Dr. Cameron Schweitzer of Gateway Seminary

Also: A Beginner's Course on Coffee Roasting! We begin today's episode in the middle of an interview with Gateway Seminary Bay Area Director Dr. Cameron Schweitzer, and his is discussing the upcoming Bay Area Theology symposium which will address issues like Christian Nationalism, politics and Christian leadership, and other hot-button topics right now. How can pastors effectively lead in a politically polarized atmosphere? The sufficiency of Scripture should inform all aspects of how we do theology, including politics. According to survey after survey of Christians and those who aren't Christians, the NUMBER ONE REASON people don't consider becoming a Christian is…HYPOCRISY. We are not an other-worldly, alien, exile-like people journeying through life as we should be. In the early church, the most common way early church apologists or defenders argued for the legitimacy of the Christian faith was to tell people, "Look at the way we live." Because the early Christian communities lived radically different lives. Not so much now. Churches face a lack of serious engagement with the necessity of holiness. The dangers of a pragmatic focus to ministry that does things and builds programs merely because they work. The conflation of Cultural Christianity vs. Biblical truth. The Deadly Danger of Hypocrisy and How Early Christians Defended the Faith Plus the Conflation of Cultural Christianity and Biblical Truth With Gateway Seminary Director Dr. Cameron Schweitzer. How Does "Love Your Enemies" Factor into Politics? Also: Christian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Insider Knowledge, or Modern Gnosticism? The Enduring Relevance of the Nicene Creed. Should Baptists Adopt The Nicene Creed? Do Southern Baptists Affirm the Nicene Creed? We proclaim that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life out of one side of our mouth, and then with the other, with great confidence, say that the government is killing us via chemtrails. How the Nicene Creed was the grid within which early Christians were discipled and trained. Jonathan Edwards, America's Augustin, one of the most studied figures in American history prior to the Civil War. A Beginner's Course on Coffee Roasting. Dr. Schweitzer explains roasting your own coffee beans to us, and testifies that Folgers, Keurig, and other normal kinds of coffee are like baloney or spam, and home-roasted and well-prepared coffee is like a prime rib from a premium steakhouse.