Sermons and teachings from Rev. Mark Reynolds, a Pastor in the United Methodist Church (Florida Conference). These transformative messages will speak directly into your life!
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Questioning Religious Authority: Faith, Doubt, and Truth
In this message, Pastor Mark reflects on a pervasive problem in religion: the idea that people should blindly follow rules and refrain from questioning the religious leaders that teach and enforce them. To support this way of thinking, some pastors command parishioners to embrace a naive, flat, literal reading of the Bible that ignores its historical, cultural, religious, and literary context. When all of this is played out in the church we get dead moralism and religious authoritarianism. To break free, we garner the wisdom, courage, and strength to question religious authority in pursuit of a more integrated grasp of the truth.