Dr. Juli Slattery

First of all, I think... A fear that we don't want... I mean, I think it's a lot of that.

I mean, first of all, let's take a step back and say we have the luxury of...

of having denominations.

Capital L luxury.

Yeah, I mean, we do.

We have the time to sit around and think about, what's my theology on baptism?

Do I think we should use preferred pronouns?

We have the space and the luxury of that instead of, like I said, in the persecuted church or in places where there are very, very few Christians.

It's just...

Like, hey, let's link arms together.

And I've been in places like that in other countries where it's like, there is no such thing as denominations.

It's like, do you love Jesus?

Yeah.

Okay, well, let's work together.

So I do think it's a luxury thing.

I think, and I'm not a church historian, but the little that I know, with the Protestant Reformation, the scripture became so important, and it is so important, but we began to put all the emphasis on what is your doctrine, and not on our experience with God, and not on how are we living, how are we loving well.

And so in the modern Western Protestant Church,

all the focus on whether or not you're a good Christian is what you believe.

Yeah.

Instead of some of those other avocations of what it is to walk with God.