72. Is the Church as True as the Gospel? — A Conversation with Terryl Givens

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🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The disrupted church schedules we’ve experienced over the past year have taught us all a lot about our worship practices, our church relationships, and ourselves. Now that many of us are starting to get back to a more standardized, full-meeting schedule, there are as many different feelings as there are people: some are excited and can’t wait to go back, and others are more reluctant.

We asked our community on social media what their thoughts, questions, or concerns about this are, and were flooded with responses. We want to thank everyone that spent the time to comment for being open and vulnerable with what you’re feeling. We read every question and did our best to encapsulate what was expressed as we worked through this episode.

For this conversation, we spoke with Terryl Givens, and specifically spent some time discussing Eugene England’s classic essay, "Why the Church is as True as the Gospel". Terryl is particularly well-suited to talk about this — his new biography of Eugene England, "Stretching the Heavens", is being released in just a few weeks. If you haven’t read England’s essay, please don’t let the title put you off just yet — you might be surprised by what he meant, and encouraged by what he had to say.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez with Faith Matters. The Disrupted Church
0:04.4	schedules we've experienced over the past year have taught us a lot about our
0:07.5	worship practices, our church relationships, and ourselves. Now that lots of us
0:11.4	are starting to get back to a more standardized full-meeting schedule, there
0:14.4	are as many different feelings as there are people. Some are excited and can't
0:17.7	wait to go back and others are more reluctant. We asked our community on social
0:21.5	media what their thoughts, questions, and concerns about this are and were flooded
0:25.0	with responses. We want to thank everyone that spent the time to comment and for
0:29.1	being open and vulnerable about what you're feeling. We read every question and
0:32.4	did our best to encapsulate what was expressed as we worked through this
0:35.2	episode. For this conversation we spoke with Tarot Givens and specifically
0:39.0	spent some time discussing Eugene England's classic essay, Why The Church Is
0:42.8	True is the Gospel. Tarot is particularly well suited to talk about this. His
0:47.3	new biography of Eugene England stretching the heavens is being released in
0:50.6	just a few weeks. If you haven't read England's essay, please don't let the title
0:54.0	put you off just yet. You might be surprised what he meant and encouraged by what
0:57.4	he had to say. So with that we'll jump right in. Thanks for listening and we hope
1:00.4	that you enjoyed this episode. All right, Tarot. Thank you so much for
1:05.9	joining us. Always a pleasure, Tim and Aubrey. Just to give our listeners a little
1:11.4	bit of background on this discussion, Aubrey and I are going back to a full
1:17.1	two-hour church schedule just this coming Sunday and we know a lot of
1:21.8	a lot of words are in different stages but I think it's something that's
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