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Unchurched: Some of Lee Strobel’s Best Friends
Today, let’s look at Lee Strobel’s totally real atheist friends — and how his own words completely destroy that claim.
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Unchurched: The Coin Lee Strobel Offers
Hi and welcome back! Let’s turn now to an important idea in Lee Strobel’s 1993 book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. A big part of the book involves Lee Strobel’s sales strategies for Christian flocks. And a big part of his suggestions there involve Christians creating a Read more
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Unchurched: Friendship Evangelism, Lee Strobel Style
Yesterday, I offered you an overview of the personal-level strategy he suggests, friendship evangelism. Today, I want to show you Lee Strobel’s absolutely callous and blatantly opportunistic twist on that old, old strategy.
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Unchurched: An Overview of Friendship Evangelism
Today, I’ll show you what friendship evangelism is — and what lies its practitioners tell themselves to justify inflicting it on others.
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Unchurched: Lee Strobel’s Action Plan (Doesn’t Work)
In Unchurched, Lee Strobel sought to teach his tribe about those strange space aliens who weren’t part of church culture. More than that, even, he claimed to offer the tribe an ‘action plan’ for persuading those space aliens to join their churches. Today, let’s see exactly what this ‘action plan’ involves — and then consider its effectiveness.
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Unchurched: Tickling Evangelical Ears for 25+ Years
Today, I want to show you the context of Unchurched’s earliest years — what Christians then were like, and why they continue to read and love this book today.
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Unchurched: Evangelical Endorsements Reveal a Pattern
Lately, we’ve been examining Lee Strobel’s book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. In it, Strobel sold evangelicals a bill of goods about those outside their bubble. And they loved him for pandering to their very worst qualities. Their endorsements and praise reveal a solid pattern, and today, I’ll show you what that pattern looks like.
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MLM Hunbots Have Discovered Trendy Testimonies
Here, a high-ranking hun offers her totally-used-to-be-an-antiMLMer-y’all testimony. And she does it for the same exact reasons that trendy Christians claim to have been totally atheists before their conversions, and with the same exact goals as well. So today, let’s explore the similarities between these two toxic groups and the testimonies they deploy as sales pitches.
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Lee Strobel’s Actual Product: Seeker-Sensitive Churches (#9-12)
Hi and welcome back! I woke up super-late with a migraine and had to take medication for it, so no blitzed movie review today. But that’s fine, cuz we still have Lee Strobel’s dumb list to work our way through. In this installment, we cover observations 9-12. Here, we see exactly Read more
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A Portrait of the Captain in That Lee Strobel List (#1-4)
With his book, Lee Strobel sought to teach evangelicals all about unchurched people — so they could more effectively pitch their product to these strange, alien creatures. Well, I deconverted right around 1994! So today, I want to look at his list in light of what I was like in 1993 and about to walk away from Christianity forever.