Episode 137: On What If I Don't Feel Like Going to Church (with Gunner Gundersen)

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Sadly, missing church is common. Sometimes, it's for good reasons; other times, it's not. As a pastor, how many times have you heard a member tell you, "I'm so sorry we missed last Sunday—we just couldn't make it with everything we have going on!"?

In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan Leeman chats with Mark Dever and Gunner Gundersen about how we should respond to those who simply don't feel like going to church—and so they miss for this-or-that reason.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Lehman, and I'm with here, with, with, with here with, Mark Devere.
0:15.1	For another episode of Nine Marks, Pastures Talk, Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders of the biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches learn more at nine marks.org. What kind of churches?
0:25.6	Healthy, healthy churches. But not everybody wants to go to a healthy church. Not everybody wants to go
0:31.3	to church. Not everybody feels like going to church. And that's what I want to talk to you about
0:36.7	today, Mark. May seem like an I want to talk to you about today, Mark.
0:38.3	May seem like an ironic moment to discuss that because people have been quarantined
0:42.5	away from church, but here churches are opening back up again little by little.
0:47.3	And Nine Marks has published a church questions book.
0:49.2	Jonathan, people listening to this in the 2070s will not even know what you're referring
0:53.5	to by the quarantine.
0:54.3	Oh, yes, the COVID-19 quarantine of...
0:56.3	Back in 2020?
0:57.7	2020.
0:58.6	That's right.
0:59.6	That's back when you and I were both alive.
1:01.4	Early June, that's right.
1:02.6	You assume people are going to be listening to these years from now and we're not...
1:08.3	I appreciate that.
1:09.2	I've listened to George W. Truitt's ser the 1930s. You never know. Yeah. I ain't know George W. Truitt.
1:15.1	Where were we? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've also, in addition to the fact that people are kind of
1:19.0	going back to church again, Nine Marks has just published a little booklet in the church
1:22.9	question. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you just going to call it a booklet throughout? I think our guest deserves a little bit more respect than calling it a book let.
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