109 - The Messed Up Church with Steve Kozar

In this episode, Brian Auten interviews Steve Kozar, who runs The Messed Up Church YouTube channel. His channel exposes the error of false teachings. You’ll find videos on the word of faith movement, the prosperity Gospel, NAR, and a lot of the most damaging teachings that need to be exposed and called out. 0:25 - Intro3:00 - Interview begins3:10 - How Steve’s blog and YouTube channel got started18:13 - The catalyst for Steve doing deeper digging into scripture20:48 - Irritating people, or getting their attention?26:30 - The morphing and overlapping of false teachings32:03 - The danger of pragmatism at the expense of the Gospel33:28 - What’s the fundamental issue behind these movements?38:17 - How does one detox from so much false teaching?41:19 - False teaching enabling spiritual abuse and vice versa41:53 - The love of money49:15 - Getting the next dopamine hit from church experiences50:11 - Thought-stopping devices54:30 - The challenge of questioning false teachings and re-examining our beliefs1:00:00 - Having the courage to question1:01:45 - Positive and negative responses to Steve’s videosRESOURCES:The Messed Up Church (YouTube Channel)www.youtube.com/c/StevenKozarMessedUpChurchSteven’s The Messed Up Church website:www.themessedupchurch.comSteven Kozar’s artwork: www.stevenkozar.com================================We appreciate your feedback.If you’re on TWITTER, you can follow Chad @TBapologetics.You can follow Brian @TheBrianAutenAnd of course, you can follow @Apologetics315If you have a question or comment for the podcast, record it and send it our way using www.speakpipe.com/Apologetics315 or you can email us at [email protected]