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11\/22\/2025 Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Men's fellowship, I told pastor Chris that we will be attending Crossroads PCA church<\/strong> from now on. I explained that Nadia's not being fed at GCC and that pastor Daniel Liu's sermons on Galatians are better, similar to Tim Keller's preaching method. Pastor Chris said that he hoped we would be fed there and that he also hoped that we would come back. I did a back and forth with the pastor on the topic of Parenting in the Pews<\/strong>. Looks like he's more or less with Barry Schutter on it, and he believes it was so since the beginning. I told him that that's Baptist's pseudohistory, the real history is more complicated than that. Of course, my chief criticism of GCC would be that they don't care about ministering to the kids. Anti-intellectualism is only secondary. And for Nadia, the ministering of the Word is my primary goal, not attending worship service and certainly not mindlessly worshipping pastors and churches. And this she decided all on her own, and I merely concurred, despite having defending GCC and the pastor before, sometimes even causing her to fight with me. Nadia even blogged about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadia and I talked a lot about the church. I gave her a couple of Youtube clips that resonate so much of what we feel about GCC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On injection of self-righteousness in sermons<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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