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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: 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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Lee Strobel’s Many Lies About ‘Unchurched Harry and Mary’
Hi and welcome back! Recently, one of our dear friends, Kevin, presented us a list for consideration. Evangelical apologist Lee Strobel created this list back in the early 1990s for one of his books. He wanted to explain unchurched people to evangelicals. Since I deconverted right at that time, I found Read more
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How Evangelicals Use ‘the Endtimes’ to Disobey Jesus
As with everything they do, evangelicals embrace the Endtimes for a reason. And that reason is awful. Its awfulness represents not so much a separate problem in their religion as a symptom of the deepest, worst problem they have. Today, I’ll show you why so many evangelicals embrace and love beliefs like the Endtimes.
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A Quick Introduction to the Endtimes
Evangelicals think a lot about the end of the world, but current events have had them thinking about it more than ever. Today, let me introduce you to a little something they call The Endtimes.
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Pastoral restoration: A beloved evangelical farce
Pastoral restoration involves punishing and humiliating a male evangelical leader enough to mollify the flocks. Both parties seek to ease the scandal-causer back into pastoring without the flocks freaking out and rejecting him (or it blowing up into a public-relations nightmare for the denomination).