No pain, No gain, No church

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Todd Pruitt and Carl Trueman meet with PCA church planter, Jon “No Gain” Payne, to discuss the struggles, victories and overall philosophy of biblical church planting. All jokes about skinny jeans and soy lattes aside, the hosts jump right in and ask the tough questions. What does the gospel-centered, reformed version of this ministry look like in an age when church planting is considered “sexy” and glamorous? Jon outlines 8 essential keys to building a proper biblical foundation for any church. While he speaks with excitement about his and his family’s upcoming move to Charleston, SC, he also recognizes that flashy gimmicks will not be the means through which God builds His church. Jon is stepping out in faith and obedience and relying on the means of ordinary grace alone.Free resource from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals How to Have a Healthy Church, free pdf booklet by James BoiceWhat should be the distinguishing marks of the Church of Jesus Christ? What should be its most important characteristic? How do we know when our church is healthy? James Boice answers these important questions as he works through John 17. Mentioned on No pain, No gain, No churchA Faith Worth Teaching: The Heidelberg Catechism's Enduring Heritage by Jon D. Payne and Sebastian HeckThe Lectio Continua Project edited by Jon D. PayneIn the Splendor of Holiness: Rediscovering the Beauty of Reformed Worship for the 21st Century by Jon D. PayneOur Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990

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0:00.0	Well, you are listening to the Mortification of Spin, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:12.3	My name is Todd Pruitt.
0:13.3	I'm the pastor of Church of the Savior in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and I'm joined as always by
0:17.5	Carl Truman Professor of Church History, the Paul Woolley Chair Professor of Church
0:23.3	History at Westminster Theological Seminary, and a very distinguished part-time pastor at Cornerstone
0:31.0	Presbyterian Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Your introduction always takes so long because you do so
0:36.0	much, Carl. I am an extremely important.
0:38.6	You are very, very important.
0:41.0	We're going to have to add an extra couple of minutes, ultimately, I think, to the podcast
0:44.1	in order to fit all of my tremendous and worthwhile accomplishments in.
0:49.7	Well, Todd, today, of course, our listeners won't know this because they can't see where we are,
0:56.0	but we're actually doing something quite exciting today.
0:58.6	We're breaking with our practice of meeting in a studio at Church of the Saviour in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
1:05.9	And in the great tradition of investigative journalism, we're actually broadcasting on location and undercover.
1:13.5	Yeah, let's go!
1:17.8	All right, all right, okay, all right, okay, all right, okay, all right, okay.
1:25.7	Return to the Mac, get on what it is, what it is, what it is, what it is it
1:28.7	Looking for a better way to get up out of bed
1:30.2	Instead of getting on the internet and checking a new hippie get up
1:32.4	First shot come strep walking
1:33.8	A little bit of humble, a little bit of cautious
1:35.4	Todd and I have squeezed into our skinny jeans
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