Courage in the Ordinary

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you noticed that words like “extreme” and “revolutionary” have ironically become part of our “ordinary” vocabulary, even in the world of contemporary Christianity? We’re constantly being encouraged to “transform the world,” to pursue “radical discipleship,” or simply to do “big things for Jesus.” But what is the cost of this continual use of superlatives? The hosts, with the help of Tish Harrison Warren, discuss this issue and point to a recovery of “ordinary discipleship” in a world of hype (originally aired 09-01-13).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Whitehorse Inn.
0:02.0	For the last four weeks, we've been talking about the good life,
0:05.1	how we're supposed to live between Christ's first Advent and his second coming.
0:09.4	What sometimes prevents us from enjoying the good life and how we can get back on track.
0:15.4	In this last episode of the series, we're bringing back an interview from 2013 that Mike Horton
0:20.6	did with Tish Harrison Warren.
0:23.6	At the time, she led a campus ministry at the University of Texas in Austin.
0:28.3	Since we first aired this interview, she's gone on to write a book, Liturgy of the Ordinary, in which she goes into greater detail on the points she raises in this interview.
0:38.0	She's also a columnist now for the New York Times.
0:42.0	What I'm just realizing is that so much of life, unavoidably, is the mundane.
0:50.0	Even if I stayed long term in Africa, I'd still have to do the laundry and I'd still get sick,
0:56.4	and my kids would get sick.
0:58.1	And just wherever you are, there's so much ordinariness to life that if we don't learn how to meet Jesus and that if we're always sort of waiting for kind of an adrenaline rush of a risky experience
1:10.9	We're never going to be content with kind of the daily grind of the Christian life.
1:17.0	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would
1:26.8	gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. From one
1:32.2	such meeting place a small Cambridge inn called
1:35.1	the White Horse the reformation came to the English-speaking world. Carrying on the
1:40.6	tradition, welcome to the White Horse Inn.
1:46.7	Hello and welcome to another edition
1:48.1	of the White Horse Inn
1:49.2	as we're starting a new series, ordinary, radical, Bigger, Better, Revolutionary,
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