Oct 13, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min · 16 segments
What if you've wasted years of your life?Augustine of Hippo spent years chasing pleasure, success and answers everywhere except God. Teresa of Ávila spent nearly two decades living what she later…
Johnny HansenHost
Andy LambHost
And so Paul actually uses it over 40 times in the New Testament for just, uh, normal believers.
We, uh, in Romans, um, just a few of these here real quick, in Romans 1:7, Paul addresses believers as saints.
Um, in the ver- all of his epistles, 1 Corinthians, uh, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, all of them, his very, one of his very first or second verses, he'll say, "To the Church of God," that is in...
This one is in Corinth, "To those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those in every place, call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs," uh, "both their Lord and ours." You see it in Ephesians 1, "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus." He does it in Philippians.
So Pope Alexander, what he did was he, he d- made the decision that, uh, saints could no longer, no longer be publicly venerated.
The reason why he did that, he said the, the reputation could spread faster than facts.
And so if a church in some town saw somebody who did saintly things, and they could just make the decision as the church then and there that this person was a saint, and so it...
They wanted to try to bring some clarification so that there was a standard of measure.
And so Paul actually uses it over 40 times in the New Testament for just, uh, normal believers.
We, uh, in Romans, um, just a few of these here real quick, in Romans 1:7, Paul addresses believers as saints.
Um, in the ver- all of his epistles, 1 Corinthians, uh, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, all of them, his very, one of his very first or second verses, he'll say, "To the Church of God," that is in...
This one is in Corinth, "To those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those in every place, call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs," uh, "both their Lord and ours." You see it in Ephesians 1, "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus." He does it in Philippians.
So Pope Alexander, what he did was he, he d- made the decision that, uh, saints could no longer, no longer be publicly venerated.
The reason why he did that, he said the, the reputation could spread faster than facts.
And so if a church in some town saw somebody who did saintly things, and they could just make the decision as the church then and there that this person was a saint, and so it...
They wanted to try to bring some clarification so that there was a standard of measure.
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