Bully Pulpit: Gobbledygook

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Listen in as Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt take to the Bully Pulpit. On this week’s Pulpit they discuss the means and goals of preaching. What role does evangelism play in preaching? How do Jesus and the Apostles teach men to preach? Today, many preachers give their congregations gobbledygook instead of solid, biblical meat each week. The Bible confronts us in our sinful state before God, and preachers need to bring that confrontation in through their sermons by turning their own pulpits into Bully Pulpits... Click here for the free offer The Foolishness of Preaching by Dr. James boice.

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0:00.0	Well, you are listening to the Mortification of Spin, bully pulpits.
0:15.6	I'm Todd Pruitt, and I'm joined as always with Carl Truman, and we'd like to use these short segments to deal
0:23.5	with hot topics, things that interest us, things that will hopefully interest you in kind of a
0:29.2	high-impact, quick approach.
0:44.0	The mortification of Spin is a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:46.6	We can only continue with your help.
0:53.5	Visit Mortification ofspin.org to make a donation or call on 80048881888 this episode of the bully pulpit we take a look at
0:57.2	Mark Driscoll and Andy Stanley's approach to preaching to the pagans you may be surprised to
1:02.7	hear Carl's sympathetic response well Carl tell us what's on our mind today.
1:11.5	Well, I'm looking at a rather interesting article that recently appeared in the Christian press.
1:16.5	It's entitled Pastors Mark Driscoll and Anley Stanley, Colon, preach with a sensitivity to the lost.
1:23.4	And it's talking about a series of videos done at some kind of symposium where a group of pastors,
1:29.6	including Mark Driscoll, Andy Stanley, Lou Gileo, Crawford-Lorets and Stephen Fertig got together to
1:36.9	talk about preaching evangelistically. One of the things that caught my eye was a quotation from Mark Driscoll, and let me read it to you and then offer a few thoughts.
1:51.5	Pastor Driscoll says this, if you use too much theologized language, you will lose lost people.
1:58.1	The church, and then he goes on, the meg church pastor said that the church leaders will lose their
2:03.3	evangelical thrust if they rely on bible college lingo because people don't know what you're
2:08.5	talking about it's an interesting comment i think on one level i have some sympathy with what he
2:15.6	said clearly preaching is to be clear. It's to involve
2:19.9	communication. It's to be done in a way that people can grasp and to understand. I am concerned,
2:27.0	however, that what seems to be driving that quotation is the idea that the church itself, it gathers is to be primarily evangelistic.
2:38.6	I take the view when I prepare a sermon. I certainly want to try to make sure there's something
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