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Beyond the Church Facade: Sam Allberry

FamilyLife Today®

FamilyLife Podcast Network

Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Christianity, Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Church should be a place where you can truly be yourself. Author Sam Allberry discusses how to create space for confession and connection in the church.

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0:00.0

In our culture right now, I honour myself and I confess your sins.

0:06.2

Yeah.

0:07.4

So I try to come across as virtuous and impressive and impressive,

0:11.5

and I call out and accuse everybody else who's doing something wrong.

0:15.8

And that's why we're so miserable.

0:17.9

And the Bible is flipping that round and saying,

0:20.3

no, don't worry about whether you're being honored,

0:21.8

worry about whether other people are being honored.

0:24.1

And don't confess theirs and be most concerned about your own.

0:27.8

And it creates such a different environment when we do that.

0:36.9

Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

0:42.2

I'm Ann Wilson.

0:43.2

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.

0:47.5

This is Family Life Today.

0:58.2

Let's confess our sins to one another.

1:00.0

You go first, Sam.

1:01.8

How long have we gone?

1:06.5

No, we're not going to do that. But, I mean, it is something we're going to talk about with you, Sam, because you talk about that in your book.

1:13.1

You're not crazy.

1:14.3

Gospel sanity for weary churches.

1:17.3

We had a great discussion yesterday talking about what does gospel culture even look like in a church, and we should be the most welcoming and inviting.

1:25.2

Even your definition of gospel.

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