Is There Hope for Johnny?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We’re taking a ride in a Mustang GT through Western PA with our special guest T. David Gordon. He’s the professor of religion and Greek at Grove City College, he's also been studying and teaching media ecology for years.T. David offers some astute thoughts on how the media has impacted Johnny. He shows us how pulpits and pews have been affected by cultural illiteracy. Johnny can’t preach, he can’t sing hymns either, and the crew wants to know why. What are the basic elements missing from preaching and why must they not be ignored? He also gives us great insight on the exclusivity of Psalm singing. All that, while listening to the powerful V8 engine and ZZ Top playing on the radio.We have a several copies of "Why Johnny Can't Preach" by T. David Gordon courtesy of P&R Publishing that we are giving away. Enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd
0:23.0	Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.3	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.6	Thank you. Well, welcome to Mordification of Spin.
0:46.5	I'm here as usual with my co-hosts, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:50.0	We have a special guest today.
0:51.9	I'm going to describe him to you and see if you can guess who he is.
0:56.0	He's wearing a clean shirt, new shoes.
0:58.2	He doesn't know where he's going to.
1:00.4	Silk suit, black tie, he doesn't need a reason why.
1:03.9	They come run in just as fast as they can.
1:06.6	Because every girl's crazy about a sharp dress man.
1:10.6	We are speaking, of course, to the preeminent ZZ Top, if we can use the correct pronunciation,
1:16.7	the preeminent ZZ Top fan in the Reformed world, T. David Gordon.
1:21.8	Welcome to the show, David.
1:23.4	Until you just introduced me, I would have said it's great to be here.
1:28.3	Well, David is professor of religion and Greek at the wonderful institution, Grove City College, in western Pennsylvania.
1:37.3	And he's written numerous articles, none of which have ever caused any trouble or controversy whatsoever,
1:43.3	including, I think, the famous one,
1:45.3	why I believe in the insufficiency of Scripture.
1:47.8	I think that was the first article I ever read by David.
1:51.5	We want to talk to him today about two books that he wrote a few years ago now, but continue to strike a chord in reformed culture.
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