There's no doubt the American Church is in crisis. After numerous scandals, the distrust of the church is at an all-time high.

Young people raised in the church are leaving an alarming rate, and we have a society where loneliness and spiritual hunger is rampant, but people are turning elsewhere for help.

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie Roy's, and today

I'm going to be discussing the crisis in the American church with Sky Dithani. Sky is a former

editor at Christianity Today and a former pastor. He's also co-host of the podcast,

The Holy Post. And he's a speaker and author of numerous books, including the provocatively titled,

What if Jesus was serious about the church? In the book, Sky looks at what the Bible really says

about the church, then he compares that with some of the prevailing beliefs and

values popular in the church today. For example, the church is commonly referred to in

scripture as a family, but in modern America, it's become a corporation, and in its pursuit

of expansion, influence, and power, the church has sadly lost the essential Christian virtue of love.

As Sky writes, now, rather than feeling like valued members of God's family, many church members

feel like replaceable cogs in a ministry machine. Is it any wonder that the church is suffering

and is it any wonder that people are leaving?

I'm so excited to speak with Sky about the church, not just because he's a great thinker and teacher,

but because he's my brother. Sky attends the same house church that my family attends,

and I've seen his commitment to the church on a day-to-day week-by-week basis,

and it's because of people like Sky that I haven't given up on

the church, even though I've had a ton of negative experiences. I still believe in the church.

I still see her beauty. And so I'm so excited to share this podcast with you. But first,

I'd like to thank the sponsors of this podcast, Talbot Seminary, and Mark Horda Barrington.

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