The Problem: An Anemic Gospel

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Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

People make various diagnoses of what ails the church today. To some, it's a loss of a commitment to moral and social values. To others, it's a general lack of acceptance. To others, it's that we don't preach obedience and holiness enough. If we were to fix these things, would it cure what ails us? Jon and Justin consider these questions and suggest that the issue in so much of the church today is that we're preaching an anemic gospel. Semper Reformanda: Jon and Justin talk more about the sufficiency of Christ and the primacy of the gospel in the life of the church. And Jon talks about his experience at a conference he attended recently (and, of course, Justin has thoughts on that).

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0:00.0	Hi, this is John and today on Theocast.
0:04.0	We're talking about an anemic gospel in most churches, in most contexts.
0:08.0	It's weak.
0:09.0	And we don't really see how the gospel is enough to motivate us to obey, and it's enough to transform this world.
0:16.0	We seem to think that we need other things in the church and in our messages and on our pulpits.
0:22.0	And Justin and I are going to explain how the gospel is very sufficient. And when it is rightly
0:27.0	taught, it brings forth strength, hope, and comfort. I'm going to show you from the Bible how
0:31.9	we can find confidence and stand firm in the gospel and preach it in all its fullness. And in the SR podcast, I talk about a
0:39.3	conference that I recently went to and how I was very disappointed and how the gospel was very
0:43.9	absent. We hope you enjoy. If you'd like to help support Theocast, you can do that by leaving
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1:00.4	Thanks for listening.
1:17.9	Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.
1:22.1	Conversations about the Christian life from a reformed and pastoral perspective.
1:30.1	Well, today, conversations shall be had around microphones by Pastor Justin Perdue of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. And I am John Moffitt and the pastor of Grace Reform Church in Spring Hill,
1:35.1	Tennessee, just south of Nashville. Justin, it's good to be with you, my friend. I know last time we
1:40.7	had talked about our sermons, where are you? Are you still progressing through Genesis? Where are you? Yeah, I am. And I think last time we had talked about our sermons, where are you? Are you still progressing through Genesis?
1:45.5	Where are you?
1:46.6	Yeah, I am.
1:47.6	And I think last week I may have talked about what I was about to preach because we recorded
1:52.7	late in the week and I had my current sermon on my mind.
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