July 29, 2024

Olympics: The Last Supper?

Olympics: The Last Supper?

I reluctantly discuss the controversy about the Olympics opening ceremony.

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I reluctantly discuss the controversy about the Olympics opening ceremony.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central. No, just no,

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I don't want to do this. I don't want to

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do this. And I know what you're thinking, but you

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don't have to. It's your broadcast. I know that, But

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I oh, do do you want to talk about it?

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Do you were people at church talking about it? Have

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you heard other ministries talking I don't want to talk

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about it. I think the whole thing is ridiculous, and

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I think Christians are way too I think easily offended

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about everything. I mean, come on, but all right, all right, okay,

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I know, I know, all right, ladies and gentlemen. It's Monday. Yeah,

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it's Monday. Does it feel like a Monday? It's Monday.

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It's Monday, July the twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently eleven thirteen am Central time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Let me ask you a question.

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Do you watch the Olympics, Like, do you really really

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watch the Olympics? Do you watch the opening ceremony to

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the Olympics, Because I've seen a lot of people very

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upset about the opening ceremony to the Olympics, very very

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very upset. But at the same time, a lot of

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the people I've heard yelling and screaming about. I'm like,

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I don't think you're really a fan of the Olympics

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in the first place. So were you even watching it live?

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Did you see it live or you saw it on

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social media? Now you're outraged, I'm I'm offended. Well, you

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weren't even watching it when it was live, but I'm offended. Oh,

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come on, you know what I'm talking about. But the

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whole world seems upset about it. At the opening ceremony

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of the Olympics, something happened that has deeply offended Christians

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because Christians feel that Christianity was being mocked, and they

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are outraged, and they are upset, and they are bothered,

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and they're ministries, and there are ministries sending me emails

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about the outrage. Oh well, I'll read one of them

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because I think it's just oh well, we'll talk about it.

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But I've been seeing it and I have tried to

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just kind of say you know what, Well, I haven't

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really had the opportunity, but I'm like, I'm just not

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I'm not going to talk about this. I'm just not

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going to talk about this. I'm not. So I was

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sitting here in front of the microphone, going, Okay, what

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do I do today? What should I do today? Because

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there are some days I can sit down in front

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of the microphone and I just feel overwhelmed because I

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have so many things I want to talk about. I

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don't have a there's not a shortage. I want to

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talk about this, and I want to do this, and

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I want to do this, And there are other days

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I sit down in front of the microphone and I'm

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kind of like, why do I even own this microphone?

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Why do I even have a podcast? I don't even

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know what I want to do? Do I even feel

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like broadcasting? So I was kind of in one of

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those moods where I just like, do I even really

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want to do this today? Does it even really matter?

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Just kind of like not necessarily maybe just more cynical,

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maybe just kind of more like whatever kind of attitude.

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And so then I was like, well, let me grab

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the sermon's two point oh app and let me look

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at my under the feed tab and just see what's there.

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And then I noticed, oh, there's a sermon on Ezekuel

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chapter thirty six. I spent a considerable amount of time

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yesterday in Ezekiuel thirty six. Hmmm, that could be interesting.

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So I started getting everything ready. I downloaded the file,

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realized the audio wasn't loud enough. Then I opened up

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software artificially increased the volume, then poured it. Okay, then

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make sure my microphone. I was doing all of that,

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and then I was like, well, how do I do

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my introduction for it? How do I do my introduction?

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And so I thought, well, when I do my introduction,

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I'll just talk about all the different things that I

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was looking at and and and I'm like, well, I

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will at least mention I will mention the Olympics and

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the opening ceremoney. I will at least mention it. But

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then I'm like, well, if I start mentioning it in

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my introduction, then my introduction will probably then go longer

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than it should and it's going to be a sermon review. Okay, no,

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let's not do that. So then I was like, okay,

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I'm gonna change my introduction. Oh, I'm just going to

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ignore the Olympic stuff. And as I was trying to

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ignore it. Well, more and more things kept popping up

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about it, and I'm like, okay, for crying out loud, Well,

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you're going to just have to We're just gonna have

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to talk about it. In fact, if you go to

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the Christian Post today, the Christian Post Today right here,

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so I say, you've got three stories. You've got something

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about pro life activists, something going on in Venezuela. Okay,

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you've got about the presidential run in politics. And then

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right under that, underneath that, right you have opinion the

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woke French when the gold medal for mockery. The woke

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French when the gold medal for mockery. I know I

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kind of run that together and didn't sound correct. Let

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me read it one more time. The woke French when

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the gold medal for mockery. It's written as a headline,

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so there's no comma or anything there. So the woke French,

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they win the gold medal for mockery. Well, I'm pretty

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sure I know what that's about. So I click on it,

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and well there is the picture that everyone is so

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up the screenshot. Okay, the woke French win the gold

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medal for mockery. This was published today Monday, July the

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twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. The largest religion in the

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world today is Christianity with two point four billion followers,

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comprising thirty one percent of the total population of the planet,

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and second place is Islam with approximately two billion followers.

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Even though it is the largest religion in the world,

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Christianity is often attacked in the mainstream media and in

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popular culture. It happened again during a disgusting display at

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the opening ceremonies of the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics.

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French organizers thought it was a clever idea to make

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a satirical spectacle of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting The

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Last Supper. Filling the role of the Apostles were drag queens,

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including one who is partially naked, a transgender model, a

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singer dressed as a Greek god, and a child representing Jesus.

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Was a scantly clad, overweight woman and an outrageous costume.

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Why are you going to focus on her weight? What

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difference does it make? What difference does it make because

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they're overweight? Someone's overweight. That's an issue. I am mad

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because the person who supposedly is Jesus was overweight. I

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guess like, okay, all right, whatever, but I don't know

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why they mentioned that, so what all right? And because

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it's an overweight woman, would you would you have said

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that the person was overweight if it was a man

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like that just seems I don't even already like that.

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But okay, For many Christians, the presentation was incredibly sacrilegious

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and a blatant attack on the religion, all right. The

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Deputy Prime Minister of Italy labeled the perform it sleazy

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and noted that the opening of the Olympics that the opening,

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and noted that opening the Olympics by insulting billions of

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Christians across the world was a really bad taste. US

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House Speaker Mike Johnson blasted the opening ceremonies as a

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mockery of the Last Supper. He said it was shocking

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and insulting to Christian people around the world. Johnson also

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lamented that the war on our faith and traditional values

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knows no bounds today. It's a war, ladies and gentlemen,

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that's a war. Okay, come on now, all right, Okay,

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so then they go on, but there's just already just

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one that's one article, all right, So they're upset about it.

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Then then the next article right next to that disrespectful

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to Christians. Elon Musk blast Olympics opening ceremony and calls

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Christianity toothless. Okay, toothless? Okay? What should we do? Elon?

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Should should I come to you for philological and biblical advice?

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Is Elon Musk now the spokesman for Christianity? I don't

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even know anymore? Okay, it says. The opening ceremony of

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the Paris Olympics has come under criticism from major leaders

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worldwide for featuring a scene that many perceive as a

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part parody of the Last Supper, involving drag queens. In

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this controversial performance, over a dozen individuals, including just note

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over a dozen individuals. Please note over a dozen in individuals.

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It just you may want to keep that in mind.

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Just over a dozen individuals, all right, So, including drag queens,

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were arranged along a long table reminiscent of Leonardo da

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Vinci's iconic painting, which portrays Jesus' final meal with its

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disciples before his crucifixion. Broadcasts lie from a rain drenched

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Paris on Friday, evening. The scene showed the drag queens

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moving suggestively along the table on either side of a

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lesbian who appeared to represent Jesus standing still at the center.

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She wore a head piece resembling a halo and held

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her hands in a heart shape. The scene quickly sparked

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backlash on social media, drawing particular criticism for including a child.

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All right, so everybody's upset, everyone's mad, everyone's angry. We

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get the idea, all right, now, At least this article

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didn't attack the weight of the woman. Okay, but all right,

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so you know, I guess you know, hey, once you

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my Christietti, then I guess we can point out and

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mock your weight like that last article already. But again,

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this is all on Christian website, so you know, I

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guess it's all good. All right. So, the CEO of

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the Evangelical Alliance of the United Kingdom's express disappointment. While

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he wished for the success of the paras Olympics, he

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labeled the depiction as utterly insensitive and unnecessarily unnecessary and offensive. However,

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it was really appalling to see Christianity so openly mocked

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in the opening ceremony, with the unbelievable craft betrayal of

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the Last Supper, wrote He wrote on x Elon musk

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Tesla's CEO, who recently referred to himself as a cultural Christian,

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also weighed in on x, describing the performance as extremely

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disrespectful to Christians. He added a subsequent post, Christianity has

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become toothless. So we're going to listen to someone who

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calls himself a cultural Christian and then he's going to

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criticize Christianity for being toothless. Exactly what you would you

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want Christian Christians to do? I don't know. The performance

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was branded woke by some social media commentators. Everything is

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supposedly woke, right, everything is supposedly woe, while others pointed

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out that the organizers would have not dared to mock

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Islam in such a manner. American Catholic Bishop Robert Bharron

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condemned the act as a gross mockery of the Last Supper,

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questioning why France chose to mock this very central moment

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in Christianity during event intended to highlight the best of

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French culture. He further emphasized that Francis culture identity has

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grounded very much in Christianity. Why would they ever have

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dared mock? And they go on and of course everyone's upset.

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Everyone's upset. Everyone's upset, all right, and then well you

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could read all the comments, you get it. Everyone has bothered,

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everyone is upset. So how like? So what should I

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do here? What should like? I don't even want to

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really be discussing this because I knew that this is

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a no when situation for me, right, it's really no when,

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because you know, inevitably my approach is gonna be contrary

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to ninety nine point nine percent of everything you're going

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to hear coming from the pulpit and coming from Christian podcasters.

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I'm going to have a radically different approach. You know

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what my approach is. I don't care. I don't care

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what lost people do. I don't care what people who

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don't claim Christianity do. They can mock Christianity, they can

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make fun of it, they can. I don't care. Why

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do I care what lost people do. I don't expect

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them to respect Christianity. I don't respect them to care

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about Christianity. I don't care if they mock Christianity. It

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has nothing to do with me. So what. Oh wow,

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you mock Christianity, you're edgy, you're cool? Wow wow, so

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so hip, so artistic? Yeah great, okay next, Now I'm

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gonna move on. Now. Another reason I don't care because

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I don't watch typically don't watch much of the Olympics.

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Sometimes I will. There's like a million events going on.

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How much am I going to watch it? Is it

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really worth my time? Do I even really care? And

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I definitely don't watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Now,

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if you watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics and

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you love the Olympics, then you would have obviously far

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more right to be bothered by it than people who don't.

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What bothers me is people who didn't even watch the

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opening ceremony, not even paying any attention. Next thing you know,

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they're outrage and so what do you want? It's something

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happened in a show that you don't watch. Why do

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you care? In fact, so many times the outrage and

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the caring and getting so upset only makes it a

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bigger issue. If everyone would just ignore it, then it

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then nobody cares. Ooh they did it, yeah, what so

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what next? Move on? And at some point you know

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what you take power. It is known and everyone knows this.

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something or do something in regards to Christianity because they're

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literally trying to make a point. Others know it's a

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great way to get publicity. Like many artists will say

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or do something outrageous and then and then it blows up,

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and then guess what, They sell more albums, they get

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more people to go to their movie, they get more

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people to read the book because the controversy actually helps.

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I don't know when Christians are never going to realize

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that typically our outrage and our screaming, and not in

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every situation, but in many it's simply backfires and only

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makes the thing more known or more popular. Sometimes the

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best thing to do is just go, come on, can

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you try a little harder? Could you do? Could you

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do something a little better? Could you? But no, most

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Christians won't. It's got to be like, oh, it's an

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attack upon our faith. It's an attack upon our faith,

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and we got to be offended by everything. I don't

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care if they attack our faith, right, just move on.

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Focus on what's going wrong in the church. Focus on

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what's going wrong on our own Christian lives, focus on

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our own weakness as their own sin, instead of worrying

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what people who probably have no claim to Christianity what

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they're doing or not doing. But Christians constantly get offended

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and get bothered. And Christians seem to have this attitude

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that everyone has to do things that simply fits the

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Christian idea. Why do we want everyone to do things

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our way? Like? What? Why are they bound to do

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things that only will please us and not offend us?

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Why do we, like, I don't understand why we are

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so arrogant to think everyone should. I want them to

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do what they want if that's their artistic vision and

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they believe that what they did had something to do

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with the Olympics, something to do with the culture, and

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will then go, so be it. The Olympics are Greek,

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right an origin. Okay, we'll go back to some of

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the things that's that. I mean, we could get into

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a long discussion of everything that's happened in the Olympics,

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Greek culture. I mean, it was all of that very

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very much in line with Christianity, going back to the

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origins of it was it? I mean, you tell me

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go study some of this. Someone was showing me some

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artwork associated with some of the some of the original

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Olympic Games, and you'd be like, well that I think

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most people would be greatly offended by that, meaning that

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maybe even the origins of some of this is not

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even that Christian. And then then would you consider France

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the culture in France and twenty twenty four, would you

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consider that nation a Christian nation? So it's France and

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it's the Olympics, which are Greek. What do you expect?

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I don't know what you expect, right, I don't know

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what you should expect. I just doubt you should expect

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necessarily that it's going to reflect everything that you care

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about as a Christian. You may say, well, I think

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it's ridiculous that they did it. You can think it's ridiculous.

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and you just kind of go all right, whatever, you know,

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all right, next move on. You know, you take power

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from it by not creating the outrage, you take power

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from it, because then if they were trying to get

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a reaction, well they didn't get the reaction. Well that

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would then that kind of motivates people not to try

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it in the future. Now, if they weren't trying to

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get that kind of reaction, then maybe you will accomplish something.

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I don't know. I just think the whole thing is crazy.

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But let me kind of walk through everything that's happened here.

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So that's on the Christian Post. There's probably there's more

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articles on the Christian Post all about this. So the

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Post obviously is going to create one headline after another

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headline because I bet, in fact, I could be wrong.

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I think they used to have here in the Christian

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Post a section of their most popular stories most popular

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Uh okay, yeah, one of the most popular stories right

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now is the story about Elon Musk blasting the Olympic

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opening ceremony and calling Christianity toothless. So they know then

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that's generating clicks, right, So the Christian website's like, hey,

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we need more stories about the opening ceremony for the

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Olympics because that's generating clicks. So Christian media and I

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can't even tell you how many probably Christian podcasts are

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going to be talking about it. So everyone knows that

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this is the thing, except in me, it's like, oh why,

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I wouldn't even be discussing it. So I'm not here

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really to get into what the Olympics was trying to

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do or not doing. I will talk about it a

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little bit because I think there's been a lot of

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misrepresentation to what actually occurred, and I think a lot

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of people are not connecting it to ancient Greek culture

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and not connecting it to a Greek deity in Greek mythology.

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I think a lot of people are misrepresenting what happened.

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But you can debate that. But I'm more want to

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deal how Christians are handling it. So that's the only

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reason I'm talking. I don't even really want to be

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talking about it, but I feel like there's got to

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be someone like, hey, everyone calm down, all right. It's

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like everyone's so outraged by it. I but okay, so

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let's go through this. Let's go. Let's go first to

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when did I receive this? On July the twenty eighth, yesterday,

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at four oh eight pm, July the twenty eighth, four

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oh eight pm, I receive an email subject line Global

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Ridicule of Christianity. Now, at first I panicked when I

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saw the subject line, I'm like, a global ridicule of Christianity.

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Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no.

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This is going to be some listener who's outraged at

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this and wants me to talk about it. And then

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when I talk about it, they're gonna be outraged at

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me because I'm not gonna be as outraged as they

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are about that. And then they're gonna think that I'm

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a liberal and then I blah blah blah, and if

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you really cared about God, you would be up. And

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I'm like, oh no, I'm gonna lose a listener over this.

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So I clicked on it reluctantly and I'm like, oh good,

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it's not from a listener. Okay, good, So I can't

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offend anyone yet. So I'm like, all right, what does

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this say? And now I'm realized, oh, this is from

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doctor Robert Jeffris, and I'm like, oh boy, all right,

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the pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas. He's on

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Fox News all the time. Politically hijacked would be the

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understatement of the world. I'm like, oh boy, all right,

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So what has he got to say about it all right,

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then it has deer has my name, Then it says this.

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The Olympics are supposed to be a time where nations

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and people from across the globe come together and put

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aside their differences and unified by sport. Instead, Friday's opening

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ceremony for the Paris Olympics included a debauched depiction of

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Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper with drag queens as

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Jesus disciples. I talked about this with on Fox News

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and spoke of how this attack on the very essence

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of the Christian message is not funny and is offensive

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to every Christian everywhere. Okay, let you want another hot

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take of mine. You ready, You're right on one. I

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just don't care. But here's number two. You know what

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I'm more offended by. Oh boy, Okay, you go ahead

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and write this down. I am more offended at how

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churches celebrate the Lord's Supper then how the Olympics supposedly

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mocked it. I am offended that churches practice open communion

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instead of closed communion. I am offended that churches practice

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close communion instead of close communion. Because if you read

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first Corinthians and talk and see how if someone partakes

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of the Lord's Supper in an unworthy manner, well, at

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least in the Church of Courth people got sick and died. Well,

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if that can still happen in twenty twenty four, you think,

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I don't know. The term historically was used fence the table,

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guard the table, so you don't put people's lives at risk.

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I don't know, but we treated in the most irreverent

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way possible. I was listening to a very famous pastor.

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I will not mention the name because I don't have

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the audio clip in front of me, but it was

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talking about how they were doing the Lord's Supper, and

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then they're like, hey, we've run out of We've run

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out of you know, the grape juice or the wine,

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and we've run out of the of the of the

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you know, the little pieces of bread. Well, what do

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we have, Well, we're having a potluck back, we got

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some sprite, we got some like you know, I don't

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know what kind of bread, garlic bread or something. Well,

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we'll just serve that. And I and and and and

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the pastor is saying it like it's a funny thing.

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I'm like, what in the world, What in the world

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is that? That's that's that's that's irreverent. That is I'm

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offended at how churches handle the Lord's Supper. I don't

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care how the Olympics portrayed it. I don't even care

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if the Olympics mocked it. Christians and many of their

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churches they mock the Lord's Supper by how they don't

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follow or even care that scripture. Say well, if some

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of if someone partakes of this in another worthy manner,

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like some are sick and some sleep, meaning died, I

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don't know that would be like whoa And if you

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if you eat or drink of this in an unworthy manner,

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you basically eat and drink damnation upon yourself. Okay, that's

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some serious stuff. If that should scare everyone to death,

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I'm more offended by how churches mishandle it than I

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am about what the Olympics dinner didn't do. But hey,

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we should be we should be offended. They should be

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an offense to every Christian. But most importantly, it doesn't

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matter whether you or I was offended by this. God

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was offended by this. What was he? Did you get

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a phone call? Did you get a phone call. See.

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I wonder which one God is more offended by what

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lost people do towards Christianity or how Christians handle Christianity.

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I wonder if he's more offended by lost people's mockery

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of Christianity or all of us ask Christians, well are

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our own sin, our own hypocrisy, and our own failures.

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God's probably more offended by me a Christian and my

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sin than he probably is what lost people are doing

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or not doing, because they're already condemned. They're already lost, right,

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They're like, I don't know. Hebrews ten twenty nine says,

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how much severe punishment do you think he will he

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will deserve? Who has trampled underfoot the son of God

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and have regarded as uncleaned the blood of the Covenant

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by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the spirit

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of grace. Okay, that's a good quote from Hebrews ten

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twenty nine, But what's the context there and who's that

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referring to? What those drag queens did was ridicule and

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reject the path that that they or any one of

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us have for the forgiveness of our sins. That is

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what is most serious about this event. Oh, so we

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get the forgiveness of sins by partaking of the Lord's

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Supper or are you saying that they were that they

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were ridiculing the blood of Christ? Is that what you're like? Okay,

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we can get into a whole discussion here, But then

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this is what they then guess how this is where

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the email goes. All right, I invite you to watch

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the rest of the interview. Here is the link. This

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event confirms how critical our mission is at Pathway to Victory.

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We are absolutely committed to piercing the darkness with a

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light of God's word and giving hope to those in need.

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There has never been more important. This has never been

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more important. In a world where open ridicule and attacks

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on our faith are acceptable. We must continue to spread

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the message of faith, love, and redemption to a weary

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and send sick world. When you make a gift to

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Pathway to Victory, you will ensure that we will continue

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to effectively communicate the truth of the Gospel to those

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who need it most. Now I want you to see that.

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That's when I almost just smash my iPad into a

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million places. Okay, So the Olympics did something. We should

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be offended by it. And then what I should do

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is send you money. You're going to use what happened

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at the Olympics as a way for people to send

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you money. That is the most ridiculous thing I have

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ever seen in my life. I'm more offended at that. Hey, hey, guys,

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did you see what happened at the Olympics? Now send

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us some money. Send us some money so that we

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can air our sermons online. So should I have started

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my broadcast? Hey this, ladies and gentlemen, did you see

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the blasphemy and the horrible mockery of Christianity that happened

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at the Olympics. You should be offended by it. It's horrible.

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It's a travesty. It's blasphemy. Now, please consider sending fifteen

461
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dollars or more to the Theology Central podcast so that

462
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I can keep spreading the news in the midst of darkness.

463
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In fact, please consider spending sending I don't know seventy

464
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five thousand dollars so that I will be guaranteed to

465
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be able to broadcast for years to come. They used

466
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it as a way to raise money. Oh man, I okay,

467
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all right, let's so that is one. Well, then this

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one Don Junior, Donald Trump Junior, Right, Don Junior, Donald

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Trump's sign. All right, Oh, I can't completely I can't completely.

470
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Hang on. This article is somewhat locked here. I don't

471
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think I can get to it. Hang on. It wasn't unlocked,

472
00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:50.680
now it's locked for some reason. Okay, Don Junior slams

473
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satanic Olympics opening mom was Olympian, as well as flaming

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Olympic as well as flaming Olympic organizers, which wrong while

475
00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:04.960
wrongly thinking part of the show was irreligious. Trump Junior

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revived disputed claims that Evana that okay, So they get

477
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into a lot of things. But the point is Don

478
00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:14.920
Junior slams the Olympics as satanic. He's making a claim

479
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that his mom was an Olympian, and there's some arguments

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about that. Okay, Well, I don't want to get into

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00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:22.720
all of that controversy. But it's satanic. Now we've got

482
00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:25.880
people involved in politics saying it's satanic. So now it's

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going to become a political thing. I can't read all

484
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of that article. I'm trying to go from. I don't

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know why it's locked. Hang on, let me do it refresh? Okay,

486
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here it is. Wait okay, wait, oh it just opened. Okay,

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so Donald Trump Junior, No, it just locked again, all right,

488
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Okay it locked. I can't do anything about it, all right.

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So we have some politicians involved, we have churches using

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it as a way to raise money. We have Christians

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that are supposedly all offended. We have the Christian post

492
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ensuring they continue to make stories about the subject because well,

493
00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:01.160
it's good for clicks and then drives more traffic to

494
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the site. All right, got you? My take is number one.

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I don't care what lost people do. I expect lost

496
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people to do well things that lost people do. I

497
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don't have any expectation for them to love Christianity, to

498
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respect Christianity, and have no expectation they will not mock it,

499
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:19.039
all right, because that's kind of what they do, all right.

500
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So what do I want them to do? Stop mocking Christianity?

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Or do I want more for them to become a Christian?

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Like?

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What's more important to me? I don't know. And then secondly,

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I am more offended how churches handle the Lord's Supper

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than anyone supposedly mocking the Lord's Supper. Now, but there's

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more to this story. This article currently is not locked.

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I'm sorry that the other Don Don Junior, Donald Trump Junior.

508
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I'm sorry that that article got all messed up because

509
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well it locked on me, all right. So and I'm

510
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not gonna pay money currently to see it, all right,

511
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So here we go. Here's another article, this one Paris Olympics.

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Did everyone get it wrong about that controversial opening ceremony moment? Now,

513
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as soon as I saw this, I'm.

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Like, ooh, I wonder if people got this wrong, because again,

515
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it's the Olympics happening in France, the Olympics of Greek origin,

516
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so we have Greek culture, we have the culture in France.

517
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Hmm, I wonder if people are misinterpreting this. So here

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we go. Alternative theory about controversial Olympic moment. Christian leaders claimed,

519
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now this is Christian leaders claimed it wasn't referring to

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the Last Supper. I'm like, oh, that's interesting, all right.

521
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So the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics sparked outrage

522
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for the so called blasphemous depiction of the Last Supper,

523
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but a new theory has emerged about what the bizarre

524
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performance was really about. Reverend Benjamin Creamer, based in the US,

525
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shared a post on social media which dispelled the allegation

526
00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:10.279
that the controversial scene featuring drag queens was mocking Leonardo

527
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da Vinci's classic painting and therefore Christianity. The post reads

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it was a representation of the event called the feast

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of Now how many know this word? The feast of

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Are you ready? The feast of hang on? Let me

531
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see if I can play this. Hang on, here we go,

532
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the feast of all right now, nothing is working for me?

533
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Right now? Okay, here we go Dionysus. Here we go, Dionysus,

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the Feast of Dionysus. Many plays the entire thing was

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depicting the feast of Dionysus and had nothing to do

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with the Last Supper. Others say, well, it had a

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little bit to do with the Last Supper, but it

538
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was also bringing in the feast of Dionysus and kind

539
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of bringing the two concepts together. Right, Hey, we're gonna

540
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bring these two cultures together and and this one display

541
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because both the Lord's Supper and the Feast of Dionysus

542
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has some similarities. So we're gonna merge the two now,

543
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You may say, well, that's that's horrible, they can't do that. Well,

544
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whin it's art. If it's an artistic expression, you want

545
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the artist to be able to do whatever they want.

546
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You don't have to like it. But is it really

547
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worth getting all bothered by? Again, I'm more bothered by

548
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how churches handle the Lord's Supper than I am a

549
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buy what they've did or didn't do. But many are

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saying this is the was the Feast of Dionysus. So

551
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let me go back to this. I've got so many

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articles on this, all right, So so the post reads

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it was a representation of the event of the event

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called the Feast of Dionysus, Greek god festivity and feasting

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and ritual and theater. So again, according to this one pastor,

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the event was the representation was the feast of Dionysus,

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the Greek god of festivity and feasting and ritual and theater.

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The Olympics are from Greek culture and tradition. French culture

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is deeply rooted in feasting and festivity and performing arts.

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According to the theory, the scene depicted in the opening

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ceremony was based on a painting called the Feast of

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the Gods, which was made in sixteen o two. Another

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social media a post challenged the idea that the scene

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was depicting the Last Supper. Another person stated, the painting

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is not specifically Dionysus, but it is showing how feasts

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were often depicted during the Renaissance period with a lots

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of Greek influence. It can look like the feasts of Dionysus.

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It can also be reminiscent of the Last Supper. In

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other words, are saying, hey, this idea of feasting, this

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idea of all coming together for our theater, feasting festivity.

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It was depicted in a certain period of time along

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this way, whether it was the feast of Dionysus or

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whether it's the Lord's Supper. So, in other words, there

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was far more trying to be shown than just like, oh,

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they're mocking Christianity, all right. And it says that's because

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during the Renaissance, many paintings depicted a feast would have

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a table with people on one side and maybe a

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few on the on the ends, and have them seated

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or standing in different positions. Adding weight to this argument,

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her post was shared by a pastor, the Reverend Rapco

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wrote it wasn't the Last Supper, which is housed in Italy,

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not France. It was the feast of Dionysus, replies to

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the posts, where many were in full support. Thank you.

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I didn't automatically make the leap that they were deliberately

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mocking the Last Supper, but some clearly did. Another voice

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said French actor and singer was playing the role of

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the Greek god of wine, Dionysus. Online he was referred

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to as the neked blue man, and there's a picture

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of him kind of there on the table. He's all

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in blue, kind of like an orange beard, and they're like,

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he's that actor was literally performing as Dionysus, so they

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brought Dionysus into the entire scene. Spectators believe the performance

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was a recreation of the famous biblical scene of Jesus

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Christ and his twelve apostles sharing a last moo before

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the crucifixion, but the artistic imitation, which also included a

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group of drag queens and a transgender model, has caused

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offense among many Christians for making a gross mockery of

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the religion, complete with models, dancers, fashion icons, and drag queens.

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From the host nation The performance took place on a

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bridge over the Capitol River, around a table which also

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doubled as a catwalk. As the center was a woman

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in front of DJ equipment with a golden halo style crown,

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surrounded by several drag queens and dozens of dancers and performers.

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A fashion show, which showcase clothing designed by some France's

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most promising young designers, took center stage as those seated

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on either side performed choreography. So then it talks about

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all this and it goes on and okay, so they

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have the pictures and of course they go on and

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talk about everything else. So there was already some going.

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That's not exactly what it was now. Just a few

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hours ago, this article dropped Paris Olympics organizer. The organizer

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of the Paris Olympics says drag performance was not to

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Greek mythology, not last Supper. An organizer of the Paris

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Olympics said that the drag performance during Friday's opening ceremony

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was a nod to Greek mythology, not the Last Supper.

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Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the ceremony, told French

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News Channel on Sunday that the inspiration for the scene

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was Greek was the Greek god Dionysus. According to NBC's Today,

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He comments came after the opening ceremony included the scene

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that some said looked like Leonardo da Vinci's painting of

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the Last Supper. There is Dionysus who arrives on this table.

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He is there because he is the god of celebration

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and Greek mythology, Jolly said. According to NBC, the idea

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was to have a pagan celebration connected to the gods

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of Olympus. You will never find me, find me a

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desire to mock and to in any way, you know,

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speak negatively of anyone. So right there, even the artistic

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person behind it said, look, Dionysus is literally arrives on

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the table. This is about the odds of Olympia. This

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is an in fact that his exact words were the

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gods of Olympus. This had nothing to do with Christianity. You, now,

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what I have always heard is when we see that picture,

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I've heard pastor after pastor say this, when you see

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that painting of the Last Supper, ignore that that is

635
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a misrepresentation of what the Last Supper would have looked

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like it would not have been sitting at a table

637
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like that. That's not in fact, it's a misrepresentation. So

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what I have always heard is that that painting actually

639
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does a disservice because it gives a wrong impression of

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what the Last Supper looked like, because that's not how

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it would have been done. Now, all of a sudden,

642
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if you mock that painting, then the world loses Christians

643
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lose their mind because I guess now it was an

644
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actual photograph of the Last Supper. So the whole thing

645
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:55.800
just becomes more and more ridiculous by the moment. So

646
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where what should we do with this? What should we

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do with this? Here's what I would say we do

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with this, And this is always my answer when the world,

649
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Let's go with the theory, let's go with the idea.

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This was a direct attack upon Christianity. They were sitting

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in a conference room and they were like, Hey, opening

652
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ceremony to the Olympics. Here's our opportunity. Let's mock and

653
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:29.519
make fun of at Christianity to the best of our ability.

654
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Let's offend them. Let's show them that we hate their religion.

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Let's show that we hate them let's do that. And

656
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.440
everybody in the conference room is like, Yes, this is

657
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a great idea, let's do it. Okay, so what do

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we do. We're going to attack the Last Supper because

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we want to attack the Lord's supper. Let's do it,

660
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all right, So let's say that's what they do. All right.

661
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Now here's my thought. You can get offended, you can

662
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get mad, you can you can try to I guess,

663
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tell them that you're not going to watch anymore, you're

664
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:06.559
going to boycott, and you can try to make that

665
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:10.239
artistic expression only agrees with Christianity and never mocks it.

666
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I guess you can do. I guess you can. You

667
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:14.599
can do that all day long. I get I guess

668
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if that's your approach. I don't know really what you're

669
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going to accomplish. I would just say, if you're going

670
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to say that there is no mocking of something like,

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if Christians don't want to be mocked, and we don't

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want anything to be make fun of our religion or

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to mock it, this is what I would say. Then,

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do not support when pastors mock other religions, When pastors

675
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:43.599
say derogatory mocking things to different people, to different groups,

676
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when pastors say mocking things to liberal politicians, Like, if

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the idea is that mocking is wrong and making fun

678
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of or is wrong, then I don't want Look, I've

679
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heard Christians mock homosexuals. I've heard I've heard Christians mock

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so like, mock on Catholics, mocking Catholics, on and on

681
00:42:02.039 --> 00:42:03.960
and on and on and on. If the idea that

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mocking is wrong, then okay, let's do it. No mocking

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of anything. But let me just make it very clear.

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I don't want lost people to be forced to live

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according to Christianity. I want them to be able to

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live their life the way they see fed. And I

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want to be able to now condemn behavior. I want

688
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to be able to condemn ideology, and I want to

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be able to speak against it, and I want to

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call them to Christ. But I have no desire to

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control them. So I don't know what we want to do.

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Do We just want to get on social media and

693
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:35.519
yell and scream about it and say it was a mockery,

694
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:37.599
and then you want to use it for people to

695
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.199
send money to your ministry. So I'm not I don't

696
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:44.000
I'm not a fan of that approach. Here's more of

697
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:47.760
my approach. Okay, let's talk about the Last Supper. See

698
00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:50.960
if let's say this was about the Last Supper, all right,

699
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:54.039
then let's do this. Let's instead of using it to

700
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:58.840
get offended, instead of doing it to get upset. Well,

701
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:01.960
then let's actually talk about the Lord's Supper. What was

702
00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:05.679
the significance of the Lord's Supper? What was it pointing too?

703
00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:11.400
How did it transition from was it a passover mill

704
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:15.079
that transferred like there's lots of philological and doctrinal issues

705
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:19.599
we could discuss it. Did it go from the passover

706
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.159
to now the Lord's Supper? And now how is this

707
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:24.599
to be done? Okay? Well, does the Bible outline how

708
00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:26.559
it's supposed to be done? Yes, we can go to

709
00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:29.199
First Corinthians. It gives great detail on how the lord

710
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:33.039
Supper is to be done. Okay, Well, instead of allowing

711
00:43:33.079 --> 00:43:37.079
ourselves to be offended, let's ask ourselves our churches handling

712
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.639
the Lord's Supper and a biblical manner, what should we

713
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:43.360
believe about it? Should we believe the Lord's Supper a

714
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:46.480
sense of a memorial mill? Will we remember what happened?

715
00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:49.960
Or does it make present the actual blood of Christ

716
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:53.599
is transubstantiation correct or is the more Lutheran view there?

717
00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:54.320
Like?

718
00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:57.039
Which view of the Lord's Supper is the correct one? Like?

719
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.320
Let's use it as an opportunity to talk about the

720
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:04.199
actual philological issues that are significant to the Lord's Supper.

721
00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:07.039
Let's talk about should it be open communion, should it

722
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:10.159
be closed communion? Or should it be closed communion? What?

723
00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:12.960
How do we understand if people got sick and died?

724
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:16.960
Then is your church possibly guilty of handling it out

725
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:18.920
in a way that could lead people to get sick

726
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:21.679
and die? Wouldn't you be more concerned about that that

727
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:30.519
what happened at the Olympics. So typically, when when someone attacks,

728
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:33.840
it's always better sometimes to just say, well, let's look

729
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:42.239
at ourselves. Let's look at ourselves and how what how

730
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:45.920
the church overall handles the Lord's Supper? Do we handle

731
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:49.639
it in a correct way? To me, that is much

732
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:53.039
more productive than getting on social media yelling and screaming

733
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:57.039
and oh this is blasphemy, this is horrifying. Maybe we

734
00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.599
should look and see how the church handles the Lord's

735
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.519
Supper such a way that may be even more offensive

736
00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:06.000
and more wrong, because we really are taking this very

737
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:09.679
important doctrine and doing things with it that are completely

738
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:12.760
either we're not showing reverence and respect to what can

739
00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:16.280
actually happen if it's done incorrectly according to First Corinthians,

740
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:19.480
and maybe be more focused on that. But no, no, no, no.

741
00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:21.519
What we always do is we get mad and we

742
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:23.840
get offended, and we want everyone to act the way

743
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:26.039
we want them to act. Why do we think we

744
00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:29.559
can control other people's behavior and why do we even

745
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:37.960
want to? Now, if you didn't even watch the opening ceremony,

746
00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:40.159
then the only reason you're offended by it is because

747
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:42.599
you're looking at what other people are saying about it.

748
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.679
It didn't have any impact on your life because you

749
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:48.719
didn't even watch it. Now, if you watched it and

750
00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:51.360
you got offended by it, then okay, at least you

751
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:54.480
were watching it and then it had an impact on you. You

752
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:57.119
didn't go find it from you know, because you saw

753
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.639
something on social media. Well then okay. Now the question is,

754
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:02.880
now you're offended, what are you going to do with it?

755
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:04.199
What are you going to do with it? What do

756
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:06.000
you want? What do you want? What exactly do you

757
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.800
want to happen? Do you want everything to always be

758
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:11.760
in a line with Christianity, so you're never offended. Well,

759
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:16.079
that's not We're not We're in the world, we're not

760
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:18.519
of the world. You can't ever expect that the world's

761
00:46:18.559 --> 00:46:22.039
going to act, think, or be considerate or care about

762
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:24.960
how Christians feel because they're not Christian. They don't think

763
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:27.800
that way, and in many cases they hate Christianity. So

764
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:35.320
what do you expect to me? What we should do

765
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:40.280
is like, oh, okay, hey, guys, I don't know if

766
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:43.039
you've saw, there's a lot of controversy right now about

767
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:46.239
the Olympics and the Lord's Supper. What we're going to

768
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:50.360
do is, we're going to next week at church, we're

769
00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:51.760
going to do a sermon. We're going to start a

770
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.519
sermon series on the Lord's Supper. What is it? How

771
00:46:54.559 --> 00:47:00.360
should it be done? What's the doctrinal significance of it? Hey? Hey,

772
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.519
if you're a youth director, Hey, kids are teenagers? Hey?

773
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:07.480
Has everyone been talking, probably on TikTok a lot about

774
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.280
the controversy at the Olympics? Yeah? Yeah, what do you

775
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:12.559
guys think about that? Okay, well, let me ask you

776
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:15.519
some more important question. What is the Lord's Supper? Why

777
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:18.400
do we do it? What does it mean? How should

778
00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:21.920
it be done? Are there dangers in taking the Lord's Supper?

779
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.760
Could you get sick and die? What I would be

780
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:28.639
more offended by is you can ask basic doctrinal questions

781
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:30.480
about the lord Supper. Too. Many of the Christians are

782
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:33.840
supposedly offended about it, and they would fill a test

783
00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:41.119
on basic questions and regards to it. Use it as

784
00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:44.519
an opportunity to teach, Use it as an opportunity to

785
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:48.039
deal with it, using the opportunity to talk about the

786
00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:51.880
different views and Christianity and regards to the Lord's Supper,

787
00:47:55.920 --> 00:48:00.440
not get offended by it. Say okay, hey, you mocked it,

788
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:02.840
thank you so very much. Now we've got the whole

789
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:05.559
world talking about it. Guess what, we live in a

790
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:09.159
culture where the world is not that well versed in

791
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:11.920
Christian things. They may not even really know what the

792
00:48:11.960 --> 00:48:15.719
Lord's Supper is. So then that's our opportunity to go, hey,

793
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:18.079
I know we're not here to really argue about what

794
00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:20.639
the Olympics did, but what we want to do is

795
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:24.199
help you understand exactly what the Lord's Supper is and

796
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:27.119
how it actually looked, and when it actually happened, and

797
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:31.800
what was going on and what immediately happened after instead

798
00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:35.960
of yelling and screaming. You're not adding any light to

799
00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:40.000
the situation. You're not adding any benefit. All you're doing

800
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:54.159
is just adding more noise. That's my challenge. Don't fight it.

801
00:48:55.079 --> 00:48:59.679
Say okay, okay, what can we do to talk about

802
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:02.119
the lord Supper in a more positive way, in in

803
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:08.320
a teaching way, in an edifying way. Now what I

804
00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:11.039
would challenge you to do. Here's what I would challenge

805
00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:14.480
you to do, because I want to turn this into

806
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:24.559
something positive this week. Your assignment is to spend a

807
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:30.440
good portion of this week reading First Corinthians chapter eleven,

808
00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:38.239
starting in verse seventeen to verse thirty four. First Corinthians,

809
00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:43.119
Chapter eleven, verses seventeen to thirty four. First Corinthians, Chapter eleven,

810
00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:46.000
First Corinthians, Chapter eleven, verses seventeen to thirty four. I

811
00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:48.920
want you to read that at least five times this week.

812
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:51.840
Just read it and just consider some of the things

813
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:55.360
said there. I mean, there's they had added kind of

814
00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:58.239
a feast to the Lord's Supper, sometimes referred to it

815
00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:00.760
as the Agape feast, and that was becoming a problem.

816
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.079
And Paul tells them, hey, stop go home and eat,

817
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.159
so Wan did churches continue to have pot lucks and

818
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.719
fellowships when Paul literally tells them go home and eat,

819
00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:12.599
come to the church to partake of well, the Lord's Supper,

820
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:15.360
and we're doing this for spiritual reasons, not to shove

821
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:18.320
food down our throats. No oh, and see, we don't

822
00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:20.760
want to have a discussion about that. No no, no, see, no,

823
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:22.400
no no, we just want to yell at the people

824
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:25.039
at the Olympics. Who is representing something that had more

825
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:27.639
to do with probably Greek culture and what was going

826
00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:29.199
on in France, and it had anything to do with

827
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:32.280
the Lord's Supper and Dionysus, a Greek god, and the

828
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:35.239
gods of the Olympus. It probably had more to do

829
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.320
with that than had anything to do with the Lord's Supper.

830
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:39.760
But you know what, nobody really cares whether it does

831
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:41.280
or not. I'm not even going to get into the

832
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:43.480
debate because it's just people yelling and screaming at each

833
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:46.360
other and nobody actually cares to do any serious research.

834
00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:50.719
But I know this. If you're going to say it's

835
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:53.559
the Lord's Supper and now everyone's talking about the Lord's Supper,

836
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:55.920
then let's talk about the Lord's Supper. So this week,

837
00:50:56.039 --> 00:50:58.679
instead of arguing and fighting with people, go read First

838
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:03.599
Corinthians eleven seventeen to thirty four and see how well

839
00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:09.760
you actually know everything that's going on in that one

840
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:12.760
Corinthians eleven seventeen to thirty four. And then what I

841
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:14.800
want you to do is this week for the Sermon's

842
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:18.119
two point oh app challenge, just find some look up

843
00:51:18.199 --> 00:51:21.599
random sermons on First Corinthians eleven seventeen to thirty four.

844
00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:26.000
And then when people are talking about you, say, well,

845
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:28.920
you know what you're upset about it, Let's talk about

846
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.800
the Lord's supper. Let's just talk about it. A let's

847
00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:34.519
add light to this subject instead of just yelling and

848
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:36.920
screaming about it. Because a lot of the yelling and

849
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:41.760
screaming you're literally judging motives. See Christians are running around

850
00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:46.360
saying they were mocking God and accuse Like, you can't

851
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:49.679
accuse and judge people's motives because you don't know motives.

852
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.559
You can't see into their hearts. That's when your judgment

853
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.079
becomes the wrong kind of judgment. You can judge the

854
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:57.400
action and you can argue, ah, I think the action

855
00:51:57.599 --> 00:51:59.360
was this or that, and they can come back and

856
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:02.199
go will you miss interpreted my action. I was going

857
00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:05.320
with the Greek god Dionysus, and you think it's about Jesus.

858
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:09.920
You're missing the whole point. Or maybe it's trying to

859
00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:12.440
bring all of it together. I don't know, But what

860
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.679
why why? I mean, what value comes in debating that

861
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:19.400
or fighting that. It would be better for us to

862
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.920
spend the week actually looking at the Lord's supper. So

863
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:26.280
one Corinthians eleven seventeen to thirty four, that's what you're

864
00:52:26.280 --> 00:52:28.320
going to read at least five times this week, and

865
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:30.480
you're going to look up random sermons on first Corinthians

866
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:35.360
eleven seventeen to thirty four. And then you're going to

867
00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:38.039
avoid fighting and yelling and screaming with people on social media,

868
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:40.679
where it's about as useless as going and banging your

869
00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:42.880
head against a wall. In fact, banging your head against

870
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.079
the wall may be of more. You may accomplish more

871
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:48.360
because at least maybe you'll end up with a concussion

872
00:52:48.639 --> 00:52:51.840
or bust your head open. It needs stitches. That will

873
00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:56.360
be probably more valuable than what you're doing on social media.

874
00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:01.079
So my take is I don't really care what lost

875
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:04.800
people do. My second take is I'm more offended about

876
00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:08.320
how churches handle the Lord's Supper than someone mocking it. Third,

877
00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:11.639
I am more offended by by at least one ministry

878
00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:14.679
Robert Jeffris, using the opportunity as a way for me

879
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:20.880
to send money to his ministry. That's offensive. I'm offended

880
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:25.119
that a Christian article talking about it attacked a woman's weight. Okay,

881
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:31.960
that's offensive. I'm offended that this turns into a political thing.

882
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:42.159
And I'm offended that Christians never see the opportunity presented them.

883
00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:46.239
This is an opportunity. Oh, the whole world's talking about

884
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:51.280
the Lord's Supper. Nobody really understands it. Hey, stop fighting

885
00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:59.599
and start teaching. You're teenagers and your church. They're going

886
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:02.440
to be seeing it on TikTok. Say, hey, guys, let's

887
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:06.119
talk about the Lord's Supper. Right, Let's just the like Sunday.

888
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:10.000
You could immediately just change your entire curriculum, like, hey, hey, hey, hey,

889
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:12.480
let's talk about Hey, hey, young people, how many have

890
00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:14.440
seen this on TikTok? How many people have seen this

891
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:18.119
on Instagram or whatever social media platform there? You tolize? Oh, okay,

892
00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:20.199
what do you think? What do you think? What do

893
00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.679
you think? Well, that's great, I'm glad all of you

894
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:25.239
have your opinions. Now let me do this. I'm going

895
00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:29.280
to hand out a ten or a ten question quiz

896
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.000
on the Lord's Supper, and let's see how many of

897
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:34.800
you get right. Oh, okay, so you all think it

898
00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.360
was blasphemous. But guess what, you all fail the test

899
00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:41.719
on the Lord's Supper. Hmmm? Which is more offensive you

900
00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:44.320
being a church member and a Christian who can't pass

901
00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:47.079
the test on the Lord's Supper. It's not more offensive

902
00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:50.679
than lost people supposedly mocking it at the Olympics. I

903
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:53.360
am more offended at what Christians say about the Lord's

904
00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:56.199
Supper and they're misunderstanding of it than I am a

905
00:54:56.239 --> 00:55:11.199
what happening at the Olympics? What do you think? Now?

906
00:55:11.519 --> 00:55:15.960
My job always is on this podcast to kind of

907
00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:19.519
challenge what everyone else is saying. I kind of always

908
00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:22.039
find myself in the minority of the minority. We almost

909
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:26.679
could call this podcast the Minority Report, because I'm always

910
00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:29.039
in the minority. And I understand that, and I know

911
00:55:29.119 --> 00:55:31.920
that makes me very unpopular. I know that can greatly

912
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.599
hinder who will support what I do and not support

913
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:38.639
what I do. I understand all of that. But come on,

914
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:42.679
what happened that the Olympics now a ministry is using

915
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:46.440
it to raise money so that they can make money,

916
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:48.639
claiming that now they're because they're going to go take

917
00:55:48.760 --> 00:55:51.519
light into the darkness. Give me. If you're going on

918
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:55.039
Fox News, you're preaching to the choir. So where are

919
00:55:55.079 --> 00:56:01.840
you taking the light into darkness? If you're broadcasting on

920
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:16.039
Christian radio? Come on now right, So there you have it.

921
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:19.440
I do apologize that the article about Don Don junior,

922
00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:22.480
Donald Trump Junior. I apologize that when got all messed up,

923
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:25.440
it was open and then when we went back to it,

924
00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:27.719
it decided, no, you got to pay to continue to

925
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:29.400
look at this article. Well, I was looking at it

926
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five minutes ago. Why did you do that? But it

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was just going to be the political take on it.

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So because I was trying to add the kind of

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the different perspectives, how Christianity was handling how the politics

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were handling it, how some are pushing back going you

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don't even understand it, and how some of the organizers

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of the Olympics themselves are saying you're misunderstanding this. This

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is about the Greek god Dionysus. And if that's the case,

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do you realize how stupid we look? If that's the case,

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I can't say it is or whether it isn't, because

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here's the thing I don't know. I can't judge what's

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inside someone's heart. So instead of yelling and screaming about

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the action, say thank you so very much. The summer

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twenty twenty four Olympics have now provided me the opportunity

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to get the whole, to get as many people as

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possible talking, thinking, and studying the Lord's Supper. So when

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by the time the Olympics are over, everyone in that

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I can reach will have a better understanding of the

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Lord's Supper than they did before the Olympics began. So

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see it as a positive. I don't know why Christians

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don't do that more frequently, all right, See, I think

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sometimes it requires being as wise as a serpent and

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harmless as a dove. Sometimes it's better how to fight.

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You know, we're supposed to overcome evil. No, we're not

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to be overcome by evil, but we're to overcome evil

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with good. Sometimes the way we were. I'm not going

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to listen to Elon Musk say, well, Christianity is toothless.

953
00:58:03.719 --> 00:58:08.079
What exactly do you want me to do elon yell, scream, fight, go, go,

954
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spend four hours on X posting things about it. News

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I f fit Yahoo dot com. That's news. I fit

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Yahoo dot com. That's news. I f fit Yahoo dot com.

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I've taken this controversial issue. I've given you two assignments.

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Read First Corinthians eleven seventeen to thirty four at least

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five times this week, and use the sermons two point

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oh app to find random sermons on First Corinthians, chapter eleven,

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and see by the end of this week if you

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know more about the Lord's Supper than you did when

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the week began. If you have questions about the Lord's Supper,

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by all means, email them to me and we can

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do an entire broadcast just answering questions about the Lord's

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Supper somewhere before this week is out. So email me news.

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I F fit Yahoo dot com news f at yahoo

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dot com. And because I am bringing light to this

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very dark situation, please send me your best financial gift.

970
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I need seventy eight thousand dollars so that can pay

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off my house and so then I can broadcast for

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years to come and never have to ask for really

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anything else ever again, So please do that now, okay, right,

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See see how ridiculous that would be to use the

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opportunity as a way for you to send me money.

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That I've seen everything in Christianity, but I'm not surprised

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by it because I've seen those kinds. I get those

978
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I get emails from ministries constantly, and usually when something

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big happens, they immediately use it as a fundraising campaign.

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And I'm like, man, that's my problem. I'm not clever

981
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enough to use every difficult situation that happens forever controversial

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thing has a way for me to make money. And

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the best he could offer me was a link to

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his interview on Fox News. Why didn't he turn on

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a microphone and do an hour teaching on the Lord's Supper?

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All right, thanks for listening, everyone, have a great day.

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I'm going to go retire and give up, and yeah,

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that's what I'm gonna do. God bless