Bully Pulpit: Reinventing the Worship Wheel

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

“Well-rounded ministry is relatively rare today ... ‘while in God’s grace, there is an encouraging number of bright spots in the church, we see no broad movement yet of this gospel–centered ministry.’ […] We want more gospel-shaped churches,” according to the Gospel Coalition, launching their new 'Gospel-Shaped Church' series of books and DVDs. So have we missed the mark and been doing worship all wrong for hundreds of years? What makes a church "gospel-shaped" anyway? With all due respect, why recreate the wheel and abandon the greats of old who thoughtfully hammered out the basic elements of worship for us? Carl, Aimee, and Todd have plenty to say on the Gospel and its “shapes.” If you have benefited from listening to this week's Bully Pulpit then you will enjoy Reformed Worship Mistakes to Avoid by Terry Johnson, a free digital audio download from The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. You can also get your free gift from Reformed Resources.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, bully pulpit, a casual conversation about things that count.
0:23.5	With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:33.0	What exactly is gospel-centered worship?
0:36.8	And do we really need to spend lots of money to find out?
0:40.5	With their usual clarity and wit, the spin team takes some popular people head on.
0:47.4	At the end of the podcast, we'll tell you how to download a free MP3 from the Alliance.
0:57.0	Well, today we want to talk about a topic that should be of interest to all Christians
1:02.9	out there.
1:03.6	We've noticed recently that over at the Gospel Coalition, they've started what looks like a little
1:08.1	campaign relative to what they call gospel-centered worship.
1:12.2	It's predicated on the idea that apparently there are very few churches out there engaging in gospel-centered worship,
1:18.7	which, if true as an allegation, of course, would be a breathtakingly horrific kind of situation to exist in. So today as a team, we're wanting to
1:30.2	reflect upon this notion, gospel-centered worship, ask the question, is it true that for over
1:36.7	2,000 years now, the church has not been worshiping God in a gospel-centered way, and therefore we do need to be very, very
1:48.6	grateful that there are a bunch of middle-aged guys from the northeast of America who finally
1:55.0	stepped into the breach to correct this massive lacuna within Christ's God's Church after nearly two millennia of
2:06.5	disastrous attempts of poking and pointing in the wrong direction. So team, what do you think?
2:11.9	Gospel-centered worship? Great innovation. Are we looking at the Second Reation here? Or is this somewhat overblown?
2:19.9	Yeah. Yeah. Finally, someone gets it. You know, finally, someone is going to help us to make sure that
2:26.5	our worship has a gospel trajectory to it. Yeah, as the three of us talk, we were all kind of
2:33.8	puzzled by that. because the fact is,
2:38.9	the church for a couple thousand years now has been seeking to make sure it's public worship
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