{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.12 / One degree off: when church tradition drifts from truth","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3444,"description":"In 1979, a sightseeing flight from New Zealand to Antarctica flew into Mount Erebus, an active volcano. The flight's coordinates had been changed by two degrees. Everyone on board died.\nOne or two degrees doesn't feel like much at the start. Over a long enough distance, it puts you into a mountain. I think tradition works the same way. It's always one or two degrees off truth.\nMy co-host Nick Surface and I ask what church should be. God gave the Levites an exact blueprint. For the New Testament church, He gave a mission and left the method to us.\nHow does an opinion become dogma?\nThe Greek word δόγμα (dógma) means that which seems good, an opinion. Things start as δόξα (dóxa): what appears right. The trouble starts when everyone after says \"this is the way it always has to be done.\"\nShould Christians call out other churches online?\nWhen Paul wrote about false teachers, he knew them. They were in the congregations. When I judge another church's motives from a distance, I'm saying I'm better than you.\nIs deconstruction the answer?\nA lot of deconstruction just replaces one dogma with another. G.K. Chesterton: don't take down a fence until you know why someone built it.\nWhat's the one essential?\nThe Great Commission. Are we discipling people? Be a Berean: weigh everything you're told about God against His word.\nScriptures\n1 Peter 2:11-15 · Mark 7:6-13 · Matthew 28:19-20 · John 9:6 · John 12:4-6 · Romans 9:20-21 · Romans 13:1 · Acts 17:11\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:52 Bible college in England and house churches\n3:38 Constantine, Nicaea and the Catholic Church\n5:26 Three church governance models\n6:21 Where did the idea of a pope come from?\n12:54 \"Only as valuable as the price paid to form it\"\n14:48 The Levites got a blueprint. The church didn't\n15:33 Christians slamming churches in the comments\n16:48 The industry of calling out false prophets\n19:01 The clay and the potter\n21:04 Why would God allow evil leaders?\n24:44 1 Peter 2: submit to every human...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}