Faith Busters Radio

On a regular basis, Mark discusses divorce and porn being the two biggest issues the church has found itself ill equipped to handle and on our latest episode, we talk with Mike Genung, CEO of Blazing Grace, who has spent most of his adult life helping people with porn addictions.  Author of the new book, The Rogue Christian, Genung discusses the rise of porn use in the pandemic and what families need to do to escape its grip. 

The Covid-19 outbreak has brought out the best in our churches as they've scrambled to serve their congretation through social media and web broadcasting.  Some have been better at it than others. Church consultant Andy McKeever who works in the Detroit area with one of the area's largest churches, Woodside Bible (14 campuses) discusses the behind the scenes work that's gone into moving its congregation online and what churches might look like at the end of the "Pandemic." 

Many evangelical churches align with the conservative Republican views of the day, and in this case, views on immigration.  Mark and Dave discuss the mentality of "we're here so no one else gets in" as being contrary to the biblical views we as Christians should have and the belief that this same viewpoint is hypocritical in a country built on refugees and immigration.  

On this episode of Faithbusters, Mark and Dave welcome Twyla Franz, who blogs about and has a podcast discussing Neighborhood Missional Living - in other words, how about engaging your neighbors as part of your faith?  The old statement "don't go on the mission field until you meet your neighbors" still holds true today.  Twyla, an admitted introvert, has made it HER mission to engage the people in her community and neighborhood.  You can find her writing at www.theuncommonnormal.com   

On this episode we conclude our "Four Biggest Issues" discussion looking at whether Christian teaching is outdated, dangerous and extreme and how the church has become isolated, fragmented and polarized.  Mark and Dave look at whether any of this is true and what we can do to counter these observations from today's disaffected church goers. 

If you've listened to this podcast over the past few years, you know we LOVE lists and we've found another one to ponder this week.  As a matter of fact we've got so much to say about it, we've broken it down into two shows. So in our latest episode of Faithbusters, Mark and Dave discuss the first two of the FOUR biggest issues facing the church today beginning with selfishness and individualism and then the pragmatic view of the church in our society.  While it's ludicrous to think there might be only four, there's much to say here regardless. 

This is "one of those topics" that most don't like to discuss but as usual, Mark and Dave air it out in a freewheeling (unrehearsed) discussion of whether evangelical Christians can co-exist with gay couples in the pews.  

In the Me Too era, have we really advanced male-female relationships in the church and what are we teaching our boys in regards to how to respect women? Do biblical church teachings in themselves hold us back? Dave Willis, speaker and relationship coach as well as author of the book "Raising Boys Who Respect Girls" joins Mark and Dave to discuss. 

What's wrong with a little dysfunction from the pulpit? Does pastoral dysfunction make your church leaders more real?  What's so bad about pastors having a back story? Mark and the man who puts the fun in dysfunction, Pastor Dave, discuss on this episode of Faithbusters. 

We put them on the pedestal and then knock them down.  Mark and Dave return to the airwaves after a one year hiatus to discuss the latest issues surrounding people who are thrust into the Christian spotlight because they have a stage, a pulpit or a microphone - recently with the fall of comedian John Crist and the departure from Christianity of author and speaker Josh Harris.