Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is the second of a two-part episode on challenges facing the Protestant church.

It's a panel discussion with Brett McCracken, Jared Wilson, Gavin Ortland, and Brad Edwards

on how to practically and personally respond to the challenges they have identified.

Well, thank you, each of you, for those, yeah, really helpful, convicting, sobering, talks, but hopeful talks. Thank you. Jared, I'm going to start with you. I have a couple of questions for each of you. The phrase that stuck with me from your talk is gospel wallpaper. Like, you're making the point about Carson's

famous thing about the first generation, you know, cherishes the gospel, the second generation

assumes it. And you're claiming, making the claim that you think in the gospel centrality movement,

we are at the point of kind of the generation of assumption maybe where the gospel

is kind of this wallpaper, but we couldn't really define it if pressed. I think you're right.

As someone who works for the gospel coalition, who tracks with all this very closely, I do think

you're right about that. My question is, what do you suggest we do about that practically?

Like, if we are at a place where we need to kind of re-teach the gospel,

re-center on the gospel to help this generation of assumption really get it

and really cherish it, what do we do?

What are some, like, practical ideas?

In the whole premise of, not the whole premise, the premise of gospel centrality is

partly based on the concept that we have a forgetfulness.

Even that, you know, 1st Corinthians 15, you know, Paul begins, now I would remind you, brothers, of this gospel that I preach to you, which you received.

So the premise is that we don't wake up with an orientation around the finished work of Christ.

So we need a constant resetting on the finished work of Christ. And there is no,

I don't think, innovative outside the box antidote to that. It's at the point of pulpit preaching,

personal discipleship, and then just in my own follow ship of Christ, but helping each other, being able to reset each other,

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