Recovering the Fear of God in the Church
White Horse Inn
Sola Media
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🗓️ 28 August 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When we’re living in constant emergency mode, can we turn it all off on Sunday? Can we come together with our different backgrounds and experiences and sing the same songs, hear the same prayers, make the same confession? In this episode, the WHI hosts diagnose the problem underlying the lack of fear of the Lord: a weak view of sin and a mediocre appreciation for God’s holiness. They consider how Sunday worship serves to remind us of who God is and who we are before him. In his church, Christ ministers to us through word and sacrament, and as we lift our eyes to heaven, our sanity can be restored.
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| 0:00.0 | There's something below the theology that is animating these responses and is |
| 0:07.9 | self-deceptive to make it sound like it's a theological difference when black |
| 0:12.0 | Christians and white evangelical |
| 0:13.7 | Christians have more in similarity and the same would be with many Asian |
| 0:17.6 | Christians and Latino Latino-Latina Christians. Theologically what I think is helpful about what you're the point you're making is you're pointing out the self-disception, which is something that is done by sin. |
| 0:28.8 | This is Romans one that we know the truth but suppress it. |
| 0:32.1 | There's a moral decision to suppress and deceive oneself. |
| 0:36.0 | Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion |
| 0:45.8 | and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. |
| 0:49.7 | From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called the White Horse the |
| 0:54.1 | reformation came to the English-speaking world. |
| 0:57.1 | Carrying on the tradition welcome to the White Horse Inn. |
| 1:08.4 | What does the Church fear? We are ending our August series on fear, |
| 1:12.4 | looking at Mike Horton's new book, Recovering Our Sanity. |
| 1:16.7 | And Gallup in Pugh has done some research and they have revealed the two major reasons why people are leaving the church |
| 1:26.4 | The word for this is actually called de-churching and it is an important topic because the numbers indicate a significant problem. |
| 1:33.7 | The two numbers are politics and hypocrisy. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm going to read you from page 251 of recovering our sanity. |
| 1:41.9 | In line with Gallup and Pugh, the authors of the secular surge note that 30 years |
| 1:47.8 | ago the percentage of Americans identifying as having no religious affiliation was one in 20. Now it is one in four and growing. |
| 1:56.8 | And politics plays a large role in this. They don't need to hear more political |
| 2:01.8 | pronouncements from pastors, but a richer, fuller, and more biblical, grounded faith that can inform their pilgrimage in the world. |
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