Nondenominational Christianity

It's like this can be applied to any man.

It doesn't matter what religion or denomination or what country or who you are, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Protestant, Catholic, non-denom, atheist, I don't care.

We need to discover that authentic masculinity again because it's going to call out innately in every man, wow, okay, this is what it looks like to be a man.

And And I firmly believe, and Bishop Olmsted does too, that okay, if you want to discover authentic masculinity regardless of who you are, he says that Jesus Christ is the epitome of what it means to be a man.

The Democrats are lamenting the fact that there's a large group of black people leaving the black church.

These great stats have come out that said that the Baptist church over the last almost 40 years has decreased by about 30% and that the non-denominational church has increased by almost 20.

Yep, that's the truth.

Why are people leaving the black church? Well, they're leaving it because Martin Luther King Jr.

They can only keep the lie of racism going as long as they keep black and white Christians separated.

As we come together, that lie falls apart.

And this is why when you look at people that go to the non-denominational church, they have about 20, Let me say, about 25% of these people will vote for the Republican Party.

And about 45% of these people are moderate.

The Democrats are lamenting the fact that there's a large group of black people leaving the black church.

These great stats have come out that said that the Baptist church over the last almost 40 years has decreased by about 30% and that the non-denominational church has increased by almost 20.

Yep.

That's the truth.

They can only keep the lie of racism going as long as they keep black and white Christians separated.

As we come together, that lie falls apart.

And this is why when you look at people that go to the non-denominational church, they have about 20, let me see, about 25% of these people will vote for the Republican Party.

And about 45% of these people are moderate.

We're going to need to talk about this later because I don't understand who I am and who you are anymore.

What's the weakness of Protestantism? I'm a Baptist, you're non-denom, you're EV-free.

We have three different views of what the Eucharist is, but it seems like under Christ and him crucified, God's kingdom can kind of look like that.

The weakness of the alternative position is you go, do not bow before statues.

So was...

And that's, by the way, after all the high church hype that's happening now, a lot of folks are going from Baptist to Lutheran or from Baptist to Anglican.

What was that like going from Lutheran to non-denom? Well, North Coast isn't non-denom.

I forgot what that is.

And so it started within Christianity really at first.

Um, so I grew up non-denom evangelical, but quite Bible-centered, not, uh, Pentecostal or anything of the experiential things.

So actually, me rebelling from my parents was like, "Actually, I wanna explore what these charismatic Pentecostal people are doing." I think I was seeking something more experiential too, not just something in the head, but something in the body, something...

And I think that's still in my work.