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In this episode of The Ed Young Podcast, Pastor Ed Young sits down with Nathan Finochio — Bible teacher, theologian, and founder of TheosU — for a bold, funny, and unapologetic defense of the local church in an age of online outrage.
Ed and Nathan take on the pile-on against megachurches: the idea that if a church gets big it must be compromised, inauthentic, or watered down. They argue it’s a kind of “spiritual Marxism” — big is bad, success is suspect — and make the biblical case that the church was a megachurch from day one (3,000 added at Pentecost, just counting the men). They dig into how to handle online hate (why 99%+ of the “negative” is a tiny, loud minority, why you should double down and never self-edit), whether Jesus was an “entertainer,” and why boredom in the pulpit is on the preacher, not on God.
Along the way: church hurt and the consumer-vs-priest mindset, the real history of music and worship in the church, whether the early church was “socialist” (and why that’s a misread of Acts), and why places and spaces still matter to God.
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