Bully Pulpit: You Snooze You Lose

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Two shady sheep wandered into Todd's megachurch today. Skirting by security, Carl and Aimee are incognito to rate Todd's preaching and their notes are ... lacking in content. Aimee's doing her usual multitasking - doodling nun chucks and jotting her grocery list while Carl's a man of one talent today: sleep. Probably not the shining examples you'd expect but raises an important question: How are we on listening to the preached word? Take it from these two, it's not always easy, especially with Pruitt in the pulpit. Is sitting under God's preached word something we take seriously, strategically, thoughtfully? Are we diligent or complacent, prepared or passive? And is there a difference between listening and hearing? Carl, Aimee & Todd take these questions to task while offering some basic tips and aids for congregants and their covenant children. Listen up, this is something we all need to hear.This week on Mortification of Spin, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to give away How to Listen to a Bad Sermon by Ligon Duncan as a free audio download. You can also find this free gift on Reformed Resources.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, bully pulpit, a casual conversation about things that count,
0:23.7	with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the
0:30.3	Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Listening to a sermon, it's something a Christian should do weekly,
0:36.9	but do we always do it well. On this
0:40.1	bully pulpit, the hosts take a stab at answering that question. At the end of the podcast, we'll
0:45.7	tell you how to download an MP3 from the Alliance. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:59.7	We're actually filming on location at Todd's Church today.
1:05.0	Amy and I have been struggling with insomnia for a couple of months now,
1:09.9	and somebody recommended coming along and hearing Todd preach
1:12.7	as a possible way of getting over that.
1:14.4	I have to say, I've not had such a good, deep, long sleep for the past 45-50 minutes.
1:19.7	It's been about a half hour or so.
1:21.3	And I've doodled a wonderful picture of my dream house and my grocery list.
1:25.7	I'm very happy for the both of you.
1:27.1	I would say when I think of Todd preaching,
1:29.5	soporific is the word that comes straight to mind.
1:34.7	It's like verbal tamazepam, if I could put it that way.
1:39.5	But it does raise the question of how should one listen to preaching?
1:44.5	How should one even listen to bad preaching like Todd's?
1:47.3	Is that a way to approach it?
1:50.4	We're just going to get all this in and remember it later?
1:53.0	But there's a lot written about how to preach.
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