Episode 71: On Canceling Church

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Mark and Jonathan discuss the biblical and theological principles for why Christians gather on Sundays, and why, generally speaking, those principles make canceling any Sunday gathering an unusual choice.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jonathan Lehman.
0:08.2	Mark Devere.
0:09.1	And welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:12.0	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches learn more at nine marks.org.
0:18.2	You say biblical vision.
0:19.8	You mean really just our thoughts about the church, informed by the Bible?
0:24.0	I hope we're getting it from the Bible.
0:25.9	Okay.
0:26.5	Ephesians 3.10.
0:27.6	There are people who love the Lord who disagree with us.
0:29.3	Bible church is displaying the glory of God.
0:32.0	Isn't that what we're trying to pitch?
0:33.7	Certain, certainly.
0:34.3	That picture right there.
0:35.0	But who disagrees with that? I don't know if people – I think our goal is to help people who haven't thought about it from the Bible.
0:40.6	That's certainly true.
0:42.0	Here's what I want to – speaking of, here's what I want to talk about.
0:45.0	I want to have a conversation with you, Mark, about canceling church services.
0:49.4	Oh, my goodness. This is from those tweets where Charles Edmund texted me and said, you got to say something.
0:56.8	And I uncharacteristically said something.
0:57.8	Right.
1:04.5	Now, this conversation is not about the interactions that you had with that brother, J.D. Greer.
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