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What if the problem isn’t that we talk about God’s love too much—but that we talk about it without His glory? We dig into how a well-meaning focus on feelings and personal fulfillment quietly turned worship into a performance and faith into self-help, and why Scripture’s story pulls us back to a far better center.

With Andrew Fuentes, who leads a young adult gathering in Millville, we explore how modern church culture often equates worship with music and emotion, and how that shift leaves people asking the wrong questions: How do I get saved? What is my calling? We reframe the conversation with Jesus’ own words: with man salvation is impossible, but with God all things are possible. From the Reformation’s five solas to the rise of prosperity preaching, we map the path from God-centered to man-centered—and chart a return through truth, Spirit, and surrender.

We unpack why God’s motive is His glory and how that actually magnifies love. At the cross, justice, wrath, mercy, and love meet; heaven and hell make sense; and worship becomes our response to revelation, not a mood we manufacture. The Samaritan woman shows what this looks like in real life: exposed by truth, met by grace, overflowing with joy that tells others, come and see. Purpose then moves from stage to street—whatever you do, do it to the glory of God—anchored by Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 10.

Ready to trade hype for holiness and sentiment for Scripture? Press play, share with a friend who loves deep theology with practical stakes, and tell us how you’re recentring your daily life on God’s glory. If this conversation challenged you, subscribe, leave a review, and join us next week as we keep pursuing truth and joy together.

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