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Why We Don't Care Anymore
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| And I keep hearing you, Dad, 20 years ago, you said that one day church members are going to be crying out, why did you lie to us? | |
| Why did you tell us the truth? | |
| Because they were ashamed to preaching the gospel because you say in your book, they're afraid that they're going to be mocked or be marked by being called radicals. | |
| Right. | |
| And watch. | |
| technology age we live in has caused a lot of this fear. | |
| See, Paul told Timothy, look, you need to quit being so timid. | |
| God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind. | |
| You're a man of God. | |
| Stand up and be a man of God. | |
| Right? | |
| But now watch. | |
| So here's what's happening. | |
| Some people might say, you know, pastors seemed to be bolder some decades ago. | |
| Well, they were, and there's a whole lot of reasons why. | |
| One of the reasons why they're not so bold now, a lot of them have been brought up generations of this dumbed-down teaching, and we've come from monkeys, and they've had to grapple with all that. | |
| And they don't want to hurt people's feelings. | |
| But here's the thing. | |
| Social media, the internet. | |
| Pastors know, Pastor Jim, pastors know that if they start saying anything that's the least bit controversial, somebody will build a website against you. | |
| And then next thing, you know, media is going to be trashing you. | |
| Next thing, your name is smeared all over the internet. | |
| Listen, it's happened to me. | |
| I've gotten to where I don't even care anymore. | |
| I used to care. | |
| Now I don't care. | |
| Now it's so ridiculous and it's so ubiquitous, I don't even care anymore. | |
| I just keep standing right here and I don't care. | |
| And I'm not trying to be arrogant and I'm not trying to be trite about this. | |
| It's just either I succumb to that spirit of fear and worry about what everybody thinks about me, or I preach the word, I write the books, I come on Pastor Jim's show because you're so gracious to Allah, | |