How New Worship Songs Can Help Heal Our Politically Divided Church and Nation (with Matt Maher, Sandra McCracken, Jon Guerra, Dee Wilson, Isaac Wardell, and Kate Bluett)

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🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Curtis Chang and worship leader Isaac Wardell are joined by renowned musicians Matt Maher, Sandra McCracken, and Jon Guerra, alongside poet Kate Bluett and Grammy-winning songwriter Dee Wilson. These talented artists are pivotal contributors to The Porter's Gate's worship album for the Redeeming Babel project, The After Party. They share their unique perspectives on how worship music can help navigate the current political challenges faced by American churches of all denominations. The group also offers an inside look at the creative process behind powerful tracks like "The Kingdom of Jesus," "The Lord Will Have His Way," and more.

Listen to Songs For the After Party, get sheet music, lyrics, and prayers for your church

Bring The After Party course to your church or small group!

Referenced in this episode by Curtis and his guests:

Read more about Scottish patriot Andrew Fletcher
Listen to “My Deliverer” by Rich Mullins’ Ragamuffin Band
Listen to Howard University’s gospel choir perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
Transcript of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March 17, 1966 speech
Lost audio from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s February 26, 1965 sermon
Listen to Matt Maher’s song “Sons and Daughters”
Watch the trailer and clips from Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life HERE
Listen to the score from Terrance Malick’s film A Hidden Life HERE
Read 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 (the ministry of reconciliation) HERE

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang. And the Good Faith
0:25.3	podcast is where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.
0:30.5	And one of the big projects that we hear at Good Faith and Redeeming
0:34.2	Dabble have been doing to help people make sense of the political world has been a
0:38.4	project that all of you have been hearing about and hopefully actually engaging in, which is the project called the After Party
0:45.2	towards better Christian politics. I first envisioned the After Party as a course,
0:51.3	but we created a course that was for small groups,
0:54.3	Monday schools, men's group, Bible studies,
0:56.8	individuals, families, and friends to go through together
0:59.8	where I, David, friends, Russell Moore,
1:02.3	would be providing some teaching, and then the group would have a chance to interact with the material.
1:07.0	So the after party first existed at the course.
1:10.0	Then my publisher said, look, if you're going to make a course you got to write a book so that's
1:13.7	why I wrote the book along with co-author Nancy Friends the after party the book version so
1:18.6	it's a course it's a book and then I had this realization we're missing something and what we're missing was the song the after party in song format
1:29.4	And the reason I thought that was a huge gap was, as listeners know, I'm a former senior pastor myself.
1:37.2	And as a pastor, if you told me, look,
1:40.7	you have a really important set of truths that you want to get into the hearts and
1:44.7	minds of your congregation.
1:46.9	And you have an option.
1:47.9	You can either have that truth in a great teaching, like a sermon or a course that you lead, that could be one choice, or you could have it in a book that you write, the most amazing book you write.
2:00.0	Or a third option, you can have that truth embedded in a worship song that makes it into the regular
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