Episode #435 - Church Imitating Culture, Goblin Mode, and the Nuance of Anxiety

The Happy Rant

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Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

Everything is grim and nothing is funny
Is the church 7-10 years behind culture or 70 years behind it?
How the church can respond to culture instead of imitating it
Goblin mode: the squalor of soul
The monolith of anxiety and how we can't approach it with nuance
Redefining failure and disappointment

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0:00.0	Life Audio Hey, welcome to the happy rant podcast. I am Ted Cluck. joined as always in studio.
0:20.0	By my good friends, my partners in radio, Barnabas Piper and Ronald J Martin.
0:26.0	Boys we are we are brimming with radio ideas this morning
0:31.1	in that we have nothing to talk about because there's nothing fun or funny happening anymore.
0:38.0	Everything that's happening is grim.
0:41.0	Nobody's kind of doing anything harmlessly stupid anymore,
0:45.0	which is where we used to get our kind of well-spring of ideas.
0:49.0	Pipe, maybe it's time, maybe we have to look to Christian publishing again for for a well spring of
0:55.4	stupid ideas that come to life I don't know man I feel like we're the the wells kind of run dry in terms of topics so we're going to take a break
1:08.0	Because that minute of radio was already hard work and then we're going to come back with a free form kind of jazz
1:14.4	exploration of radio this morning. We'll be right back.
1:19.6	All right boys I got an Easter question.
1:24.0	Um, Pipe, you mentioned that you've, you live in Nashville, obviously if people are new to the show,
1:28.8	but you've not seen any like huge announcements about Easter extravaganzas which used to be pretty common in the
1:38.0	mega church community why do you think this is why our church is not kind of going big over the top renting a helicopter doing the doing the huge Easter things anymore?
1:49.2	Yeah, it's a good question. I mean it probably because the church is you know perpetually seven to ten years behind
1:55.9	culture which means like culture was done with the stuff seven to ten years ago and the church
2:00.5	persisted and now it's like oh this isn't this isn't really working.
2:04.7	You know it was what was it seven or eight years ago maybe that that Willow Creek up in
2:12.3	Chicago did the sort of internal survey and realized
2:15.6	that their methodology for like 25 years hadn't really made disciples the way
2:19.5	they anticipated it's they're like oh we need to change everything and so it kind of feels it
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