The Life Challenges Podcast
Modern-day issues from a Biblical perspective.
The Life Challenges Podcast
Bridging Faith and Reality: How Pastors Connect Scripture to Modern Life
What happens when church members abandon biblical values for cultural ones? Our hosts dive into troubling survey results showing that in one Lutheran denomination, 54% of churchgoers support legal abortion and 50% favor same-sex marriage—despite clear biblical teachings to the contrary.
This eye-opening discussion explores why Christians increasingly adopt secular positions contrary to Scripture. The problem runs deeper than simple rebellion or ignorance. When pastors have members for only an hour or two weekly while cultural messages bombard them constantly, the battle for hearts and minds becomes challenging. Add confirmation bias—our tendency to filter out information that challenges existing beliefs—and you have a recipe for spiritual disconnect.
The heart of the issue often lies in sermon application. While pastors excel at preaching law and gospel, many struggle with helping congregants apply biblical truth to daily life. As Bob Fleischmann observes, "You can't enhance the gospel. The gospel is perfect, but you can get in the way of it." Without concrete, relevant applications, churchgoers fail to connect Sunday morning teaching with Monday's ethical dilemmas.
Our hosts offer practical solutions for both pastors and laypeople. Ministers are encouraged to study texts deeply enough to draw natural, relevant applications, while congregation members should actively engage with sermons and bring real-life questions to their spiritual leaders. The goal isn't merely doctrinal purity but helping believers navigate complex moral issues with biblical wisdom.
Whether you're a pastor seeking to strengthen your application skills or a church member wondering why biblical teaching isn't influencing your congregation more deeply, this conversation provides invaluable insights into bridging the gap between eternal truth and contemporary challenges.
What moral issues do you wish your pastor would address more directly? Share your thoughts at lifechallenges.us or email podcast@christianliferesources.com.
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Speaker 2:I've often said you can't enhance the gospel. The gospel is perfect, but you can get in the way of it and oftentimes, if we poorly plan out the application, we get in the way of it. If we don't make it pertinent, if we don't make it real, if we don't make it explicit, we do get in the way of it.
Speaker 3:Welcome to the Life Challenges podcast from Christian Life Resources. People today face many opportunities and struggles when it comes to issues of life and death, marriage and family, health and science. We're here to bring a fresh biblical perspective to these issues and more. Join us now for Life Challenges.
Speaker 1:Hi and welcome. If you are joining us for the first time to this podcast. My name is Krista Potratz. I am a wife and mother of four, and every week I sit down with Pastor Bob Fleischman, the National Director of Christian Life Resources, and Jeff Samuelson, who has been a pastor for many years, and we discuss life and family topics, and today we are going to talk about what people need to hear from the pulpit, from their pastors. There's really a lot we could say on this topic. We have two pastors here who have served at various congregations, and I'm sure we all have listened to a fair number of sermons as well over the years. Jeff, you were the one who kind of brought this topic to our attention and I think you had found had come across some information that propelled you to think about this topic and to bring it for us to discuss today.
Speaker 4:Bob had some responsibility for this as well in terms of some articles that he sent around by email and things like that, but I just thought that this would be a really useful topic for us here, because it's the kind of thing that affects everyone who goes to church. It's not just okay, well, what should the pastors do? It's a concern for everyone who's there to have their faith fed. And what prompted it?
Speaker 4:The particular thing was there was a recent survey taken of an American Lutheran church body not Wells or ELS, we're not going to name it. We don't want this to come off as we're picking on them or we're puffing ourselves up in any way. It's just that this gives us an occasion to do some soul searching and say, okay, well, what about this? About where the membership of that church body was, on various moral issues and societal issues that scripture is really pretty clear on. So we just thought it would be really good to have a chance to talk about this and see how it can help us get a fix on what we are doing right and what perhaps we should be doing better.
Speaker 2:Now, within the practice of Christian faith, there's kind of like three statuses that we have with a church or a congregation. One is just membership. Those of us who have pastored churches understand that, depending on the nature of the church and so forth, there's a certain percentage that hold membership but hardly attend. They're holidays and special occasion type attendees and then you've got what you hope to be the majority that are in a worship service but don't go beyond that. And then there are the third level and those who are in worship service and also engaged in Bible class. So whenever I've looked at congregations I kind of see it in those three ways.
Speaker 2:And one of the challenges, unique challenges you have as a preacher and not just as the pastor but as someone who has guest preached in countless churches you kind of have to always target for your lowest denominator, because if you start shooting over the head of the people, they're not going to show up, they don't get it. Well, the problem is, then you get that segment that's in Bible class. It's like, oh, we're hearing the same thing. Now I don't think the solution is as hard as we make it, but it is a challenge. It's a challenge for the pastor. I know we deal with it in our homiletics instruction at the seminary. When I've taught my adjunct courses for the seminary, we've talked about integrating life issues into preaching and into Bible study and so forth. There's a way to do it, but part of it is it's a twofold thing. I think it has to do with the pastor understanding what he's going to try to accomplish during that 60 minutes on a Sunday morning, and there's also the part of the person sitting in the pew and what they're looking for.
Speaker 1:So I wanted to just start by reading some of these results from the survey that Jeff had mentioned earlier. So some of the results include and these show that, among members of the church body, 54% say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 45% say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Another one, too, was only 53% believe there are clear standards for what is right and wrong, while 46% believe that right or wrong depends on the situation. 50% strongly favor or favor same-sex marriage, while only 47% favor same-sex marriage, while only 47% strongly oppose or oppose it. So we know that the Bible is quite clear about what God has to say about all these things. Why should we assume that there are similar problems with people rejecting God's truth in favor of the culture's lies in our churches, even if the percentages aren't as bad?
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, again, it would be so easy for us to point the finger and say well, you know, we're not like that. You know because we teach the Bible right in our churches. Yeah, and everyone in our churches is a sinner with a sinful nature, just as in every other church, and every one of the members of our churches and I should say pastors as well is a part of the culture we live in. This world. We're not all hermits, and definitely shouldn't be hermits, and so we're going to be affected by the things that are around us, whether it's from the TV that we watch or the things that we follow on social media, the friends that we have, what our families have to say.
Speaker 4:Other people's attitudes are going to affect us, and even if you are a member of a church that is teaching 100% the right things on these kinds of issues and everything else, the pastor's got members for maybe an hour, maybe two hours a week. The culture's got them. The rest of the time, their friends have them, their family has them, social media has them and, generally speaking, the other side has a lot more influence in that respect, and so it's going to be work, constant, consistent work, to keep people on the straight and narrow as far as things like this are, and we should not be surprised when we find out that people who are even regularly in our pews are going to have attitudes that are more just kind of like well, yeah, I know that's what they say, that's what the pastor has to say, because he's the pastor, but I don't think it's a big deal if I believe something different.
Speaker 2:There's a I think we've talked about it in the past a thing called confirmation bias, which is this thing that we do that when you develop a bias and if it's formed, like Jeff, reinforce your bias you tend to tune out to things that challenge your bias, and so it was interesting. I was listening over the weekend. I was listening to a sermon by a pastor who talked about how people oftentimes will say oh, finally, I'm hearing the gospel, finally, I'm learning. Finally I'm growing. Now the thing is I'm hearing the gospel, finally, I'm learning. Finally I'm growing.
Speaker 2:Now the thing is is I've encountered people like that and I've known their pastors that they had when they were younger. They were, I think, far better gospel proclaimers than I was, but sometimes you just you weren't there spiritually. You had a confirmation bias that led you in a different direction. You were looking for answers to dating. You were looking for answers to dating. You were looking for answers on how to get along with a trying relationship at work. So you weren't in tune to what's my relationship like with God. I've heard that message before I start tuning it out. So I think a lot of times when people come into church, they either are coming in looking for their own message and then only accept their own message. You know, in other words, they only accept that bias.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think both of you have touched on why there is this disconnect might occur as well, other than maybe just the culture or the confirmation bias, as Bob has said.
Speaker 4:Well, one possibility we certainly have to consider is that people were never actually taught the truth. Maybe they had a pastor or pastors who taught the truth more generally about things but never made this specific application. Well, on this particular issue, like abortion or same-sex marriage, they never actually connected the dots and said because the Bible teaches this and we know that to be true, this is what, therefore, our position on this issue is going to be. It's entirely possible they were never taught and it's also, then, kind of what Bob was talking about. They never learned it, because anyone who's ever taught realizes there's a big disconnect between teaching something and it actually being learned and another one, and this is perhaps one of the more common.
Speaker 4:I think that people were taught and learned the truth at one time, say when they were in catechism instruction or something like that, and maybe they believed it very well then. But it's been a while. They've had more opportunity for the culture and friends and such to influence them, and so they've just kind of left it behind. It caused me some friction, some conflict, to hold on to those biblical ideas, and I'm not comfortable with that now. So I'm going to set it aside for now, and they don't see a problem with it.
Speaker 2:You know, sometimes people think that the church should have a manual of do's and don'ts. People will call our office and they'll say what is our position on? And then you fill in the blank they would like a manual. Just, are we for it or are we against it, and so forth. And what people don't realize is how inadequate that is. Because if such a manual were created, it's predicated on your relationship with God.
Speaker 2:And so when you decide to lead a chaste life, a life that's holy in your relationship with each other and in your relationship with God, if you're going to be living by rules and regulations, that's going to be foremost on your mind all the time. And you're going to quickly discover that we're dramatic failures in that regard. You know they're just. I could never be holy enough, I could never be perfect enough. And so you begin to kind of surrender on it. And there's countless stories on. You know people who have tried to. You know, this time I'm going to really buckle down. This time I'm going to really, you know, hold true and then fail miserably. And then after a while you know you fail so many times you just want to give up and so you tune out. Now one of the problems that I think that I experienced in my own ministry, without casting dispersions on others, is I've always wrestled with the third part of the sermon. You know there's the preaching the law and preaching the gospel. You know we're all sinners. That's the law, the gospel. Jesus died for your sins. Then you get to the third part, the gospel. You know we're all sinners. That's the law, the gospel. Jesus died for your sins. Then you get to the third part, the application. And it's funny because I have heard the law proclaimed most excellently and the gospel most excellently and then just a dramatic implosion on application because it either was a very poor application, it was an unreal application. I think we've all heard that once in a while You'll hear a pastor make an application and it's like what world is he on? Nobody even watches that show anymore. So sometimes the applications are just poor and I've tried to study.
Speaker 2:I've been doing one of those trying to read through the Bible chronologically multiple times in a year and one of the things I'm discovering is like when we get into the Gospels, jesus almost starts off with the application and then starts to unpack it. He starts to you, starts to talk about, like he'll start off with the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, and he'll tell you this parable and of course his point is pretty clear that there are people like that, there's always. I think the problem is is the application requires the most work, because the law and the gospel is so explicit in Scripture and it's timeless. But the application is time-sensitive. If you're still going to talk about a party line on talking on your telephone, you've kind of lost the time-sensitive part of it. They haven't done that since the 60s and 50s and before that.
Speaker 2:You know and you need to. You know, kind of stay current and meet people where they're at. So I think that that's one of the problems I still go back to, though I've often felt that the worship service is where we focus on praising God, felt that the worship service is where we focus on praising God. So there's a lot of emphasis, a lot of attention on the songs, the worship, the liturgy, bible study is where you focus on the nitty-gritty, the detail, and so we are faced in that with a 20 to 25-minute period of time, or 15 to 25-minute period of time time with a sermon, and in that time we're going to kind of use Jeff's analogy earlier. We're going to try to undo what the culture has been trying to do to you all week, and we're going to try to do that in 15 to 25 minutes.
Speaker 1:Going back to kind of what you were saying about the law and gospel getting a lot of airtime. So to speak and maybe not so much with the application. I mean, could it be because that pastors just feel like, okay, I don't want to talk too much about the application, I want people to just apply it however they see fit. Or is it maybe more of what Bob was saying, a time-sensitive type of thing?
Speaker 4:Well, there are a lot of considerations there. I mean, part of it is, you know, within our circles, particularly in the Wells, there's a real sensitivity. We don't want to be pietistic, you know, so we don't want to come down too much into the telling people how to live their lives, you know, focusing so much on sanctification that we don't talk enough about the gospel, and that's a legitimate concern. But there's such a thing as an overcorrection. And if you're not talking about sanctification, boy, I wanted to share all that stuff.
Speaker 4:You don't always have room, after you've shared the wonderful things you've learned from the text, to do much of application of the text, and I suspect I'm not alone in having done that. And maybe it's like, oh, I want to teach all the details of really fascinating stuff about this text. And then, well, yeah, you've used up most of your time doing that because it's a fascinating text. Or maybe you know it's more the okay, maybe the text itself isn't so fascinating, but there's really good law here, or there's really good gospel here, and you focus on that and it's like, oh, yeah, I guess I ought to add something to it. And okay, this is a personal bugaboo of mine In our circles very often with many sermons, it's like there's only one application available, it's share the gospel.
Speaker 4:That's a good application, but it's not every sermon, it's not every text that does that, and I think getting away from there's sometimes an almost an allergy to getting specific about some of these issues that are going on in people's lives. And the flip side of that is, if the main thing people are hearing is, well, what I really need to do is share the gospel with my neighbor, there's an easy way for them to just kind of say, well, all that other stuff about how I should be living my life, the opinions I should have and things like that, that's not so important so long as I'm sharing the gospel. And of course, it's a both-and situation, not an either-or, but it's very natural to slip into the either-or.
Speaker 2:I've often said, you can't enhance the gospel. The gospel is perfect, but you can get in the way of it and oftentimes if we poorly plan out the application, we get in the way of it. If we don't make it pertinent, if we don't make it real, if we don't make it explicit, we do get in the way of it. I remember a board meeting, maybe 15, 20 years ago. We had a board member who's been a guest on this podcast in the past, who talked about a student of his having researched a Some old 1960s, 1970s college work that had been done, and on it there was a page and it said on the next page is everything you need to know as a pastor, in addition to the law and the gospel. And then you turn the page and it was blank. And it was, of course, a time of that emphasis. You know that you want to get the law and you want to get the gospel out there, but the problem is is that if you can't enhance it, you can only get in the way of it.
Speaker 2:And if somebody is having trouble understanding, well, how does this connect with my life? You've gotten in the way of it. Why? Because, if you're like a lot of people, your mind starts wandering but what about this and what about that? And how do I do this and how do I do that? When I listen to podcasts of preachers and they talk about different issues, my mind goes there constantly Okay, that's a good point, but what about this? And that's a good point, what about that? And I think you learn from Jesus. You learn from the Apostle Paul and Peter and James and John and all the other apostles I guess let's just put them all out there but you learn from all of them that people are dealing with real issues and they are sometimes sheep without a shepherd. They are wandering and they might have an excellent shepherd, but for reasons beyond the shepherd's control, they're just tuning out and you need to give them something practical. You need to give them a rope to connect to give him something practical?
Speaker 1:Did he give him a rope to connect to? I think, you know, there's this kind of mentality like that people need to come right to just like hear the Word of God and be fed, which is, I mean, completely true. But when you were mentioning, too, I also think, of all the people that came to Jesus and they wanted him to heal their sick, like they wanted the fix for their day-to-day problems. They were so immersed in what was going on in their own lives and I mean he did come to them during those times and stuff too. And so I think that you know like when maybe pastors get a little frustrated, like you know, people always wanting to hear application or always wanting that, I mean, I think, people, that is what they're hungry for in a sense too. And so what is something maybe that pastors can do if they do feel, maybe, that they should do more for their people to connect the truths of Scripture to the real world, for their people to connect the truths of Scripture to the real world, whether it be morals or social issues.
Speaker 4:Well, this is going to sound almost contradictory to the things we've been talking about, but good text study actually helps with this, I think, and what I mean by that is not necessarily okay. I'm going to do all this really detailed dive into the grammar of this particular text. I'm not dissing that at all, but to do the okay, what is the specific law here? So it's not just sin is bad, you're a sinner, you need to be forgiven. But okay, what is a specific sin that exists in people's lives that this addresses? And then how does the gospel specifically address that as well? Because then from there, the more specific you are with those things, the more naturally you are able to move into those applications that are about what's actually going on in people's lives, just as a, for instance not putting myself up as any kind of paragon of anything here, but I preached this past Sunday and I had the opportunity in that sermon to talk about a sin that was evident in that text and that related to.
Speaker 4:You know, today, something similar would be anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews, hatred of Muslims and things like that. That then created a very easy application to the point of well, this is not who we're going to be. We should be not looking at people with hatred, looking at them to be punished, but looking okay, this is a lost soul that needs Jesus and it's like, oh, it's a chance for people to say, oh, maybe that's something I've got in my life, or maybe my uncle Phil has this kind of attitude, and I've never really thought about that as sinful, but I just thought of it as a quirk. But yeah, actually that's not Christian and it's those kinds of things. The opportunity is there when you delve a little deeper and make those very specific applications that come straight out of the text, and I think that's helpful.
Speaker 2:In the early years of CLR we would get not many, but we would get letters from some pastors who were complaining that it's social gospel. You know, if you're going to just talk about abortion, that's social gospel and part of it was not understanding what we were doing and how we do it. But there is that idea and yet at the same time, I think a lot of times as pastors we have to ask ourselves why did people come to church in the first place? Why are you listening to this podcast? Are you listening to this podcast because we're going to talk about just law or just gospel?
Speaker 1:Because of you, bob.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, yeah just law or just gospel? Because of you, bob, yeah, right, yeah. Now we're coming to the podcast because we're dealing with an issue and we need a connection. You know what would God have me to do? And why are you concerned about that? Why? Because you've got to earn God's favor. Absolutely not. That's part of the message that good preaching, good sermon structure will help you in that you're trying to remind people you're not earning anything from God. He's done that for you through Christ.
Speaker 2:But your entire life is a testimony of gratitude, it's a testimony of the deepest appreciation. So your willingness to sacrifice for the well-being of others, your willingness to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, it's not rooted, not even, in a sense of obligation. It's rooted in a sense of gratitude. It's rooted in a sense that you know when I—you've heard me use the terminology before—realizing that you are a spiritual abortion, realizing that you have no life outside of Christ, that you have no life outside of Christ and God changed that in the gift of his Son, and it moves you to make connections in other areas of life. I mean, we've been around, you know. We're old enough. We've been around long enough to see even dramatic changes in the last three to four decades and our lay people face it To some degree. We live in a little bit of a cocoon. Most of our friends are people who think like us and send their kids to our schools and so forth. You step outside of that arena. There are some genuine, real problems.
Speaker 1:Now we kind of have talked a lot about what pastors can do and that type of thing, but also want to talk about what lay people can do as well to help make this connection happen in their churches, for them and also for fellow members as well. But before I ask you that question, I want to answer it. Good, good.
Speaker 4:Gives us time to think.
Speaker 1:For me this week. It was really kind of neat With our church. We're doing this reading a Bible in a year on the app we're doing chronologically, and so I was reading about King Asa earlier this past week and he really struck me. He was a king of Judah and he was one of the good kings, after a couple, I think, bad kings that were there. But it did say that towards the end of his life he was not always going to the Lord anymore and it gave a couple of instances where he just kind of went on his own or consulted other people and didn't go to the Lord and he was still considered considered a good king.
Speaker 1:But it just reminded me of just this idea too, that just how important it is to go to God for everything and to continue that mindset through everything we do through our whole life. And then I was listening to my sermon this Sunday and it wasn't at all talking anything about the Old Testament. It was the text was from the New Testament with Jesus. But the topic was how committed are you, was the sermon topic, and it was talking about Jesus. And when the people had come up to him, I believe it was the man who had said I want to follow you, but let me just bury my father first or you know, I want to follow you, but I want to say goodbye to my family, and so just that connection.
Speaker 1:And then after the sermon, then I was able to talk to my children about it at dinner that night too, like, oh, I read this, and then we talked about this in the sermon, and this is just a very long way to say that being in God's Word and getting yourself fed in multiple ways, you can start to really see these beautiful connections and they hit you for your life too, and so it's almost like the application kind of comes from when you are hearing the message in so many different ways.
Speaker 4:You stated positively and wonderfully what negatively is. The problem that a lot of people have is that they don't connect Sunday morning and what they might hear from the pulpit with the rest of their lives. And there are very few people, I'm sure, who consciously say, well, I'm not going to connect those things. It's an unconscious thing and, as it is with unconscious things, we need to try to be more conscious of that. We need to think about it. It's like is this what's going on in my life? Am I doing that?
Speaker 4:I'm sure there are plenty of cases where you'd ask a member does your pastor ever talk about X issue? And they say no, no, I've never heard that. It's like go back and check with Pastor X and his sermons. Yes, actually he has. It's just well, I wasn't making that connection no-transcript engaging with their sermons. And you know, in those cases where you're a pastor sitting there and you're studying on Wednesday morning, how am I going to work application into this? You've just been handed one, and so that's another way you can help your pastor and you're blessing the rest of your congregation by doing so.
Speaker 2:You know about maybe it's been seven months ago or longer we started this series here at CLR called Deep Punk. What we do is we collect every argument made, like we started with abortion, we did assisted suicide, we did gender issues I'm up to my hips right now in relationship issues and what we do is we try to use every objection that people have raised to a Christian perspective. And it's like my version of my members coming up to me and saying how come we haven't talked about this or how come you haven't mentioned that? Because when you read it, you look at it and you go, oh yeah, I guess I do recall hearing that and I do see that when I read newspaper articles or magazine articles that that idea is floating out there and it forces me to be very practical and, as the writer of those articles, it also forces me to be very biblical, which means I have to connect it to the Word of God, I have to connect it to the law, I have to connect it to the gospel. But I'm starting with the issue.
Speaker 2:You know I remember in homiletics at the seminary preaching class, being told that you know that's kind of a dangerous way to start, you know, because normally we were taught that you start with the pericope series, which is an assigned readings, and you pick one out and then you dissect it and you share it. But the reality is that you know it also requires discipline on the preacher's part to not keep beating the same dog to death. I always remember, when I came to CLR, my homiletics professor who's still alive said to me once just don't make every sermon about abortion. And I don't. That doesn't mean I don't mention abortion in every sermon, but it's not about abortion. In fact, I can't tell you the last time I preached on abortion, but chances are pretty good. I mentioned it the last time I preached.
Speaker 2:The point is that your perspective on it and when you make applications, you're trying to connect them to real life. So what I'm saying is laity needs to keep their pastor in the loop and if you've got a pastor who's not a people person, you've got to work a little bit harder at it. Now, I know that sounds weird, but we've all seen pastors who are not people persons. I'm probably not a people person, but when people work and understand and work with him on it, he tries to weave it in, not only in what he preaches, but also in what he writes in the newsletter and so forth.
Speaker 1:Well, I think there is probably a lot more we could say about this topic.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe we'll talk about it again in the future here, but thank you both for everything on this topic and we thank all of our listeners too for joining us, and if you have any questions related to this topic, please reach out to us. I mean, we'd love to know what you also think you know your pastor should be talking about, and if you have any thoughts on the subject at all, we'd love to hear them. You can reach us at lifechallengesus and we look forward to having you back next time. Thanks a lot, bye.
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