Doug Van Dorn and Jon Moffit- The Devil In the Church

Yeah, for sure.

So every summer, I always take a break of whatever we, what, of our book we're in.

So right now we're in Genesis.

I just finished Tower of Babel, chapter 11.

And, um, I guess it's been a, um, a habit I picked up f- I don't know, it might've been advice in seminary.

I picked up the habit somewhere.

I can't remember.

But to do theological studies, like to take breaks from books just to give people a, a chance to breathe a little bit.

And, um, for years and years, we've either done something on the, on the Church, um, or the doctrine of God.

We've kinda rotated back and forth.

And so this year, uh, we, we did doctrine of God last year.

Uh, no, sorry, we did ordinary means of grace.

So we did preaching, uh, the Lord's table, baptism, prayer, fellowship, things like that.

So this year I decided to do something I had never done before, and I wanted to do something on unity and what causes disunity.

So what, what, what actually creates unity, and the focal point of that, and then what causes disunity.

And [clears throat] um, in my research of doing that, and I [chuckles] was, uh, shocked how often the Bible connected the disunity of the Church to some kind of a demonic, some kind of satanic influence.

And, um, so it was, um, took me a long time to prepare for these sermons.

Topical sermons-

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I think are the hardest.

I don't know about you, Doug, but those, those are c- they're really hard.

'Cause you just have to a- decide how much of this topic am I gonna bite off.

And, um, so the first sermon I preached was about how God uses grace.

And my argument is that often when we think about the word grace, we always dis- disconnect it from its definition in the way in which the New Testament writers write, that grace is a person.