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Welcome to the gospel coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers, pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today you'll hear a talk from Rebecca McLaughlin titled The Secular Creed.

This talk was originally delivered at TGC's 2021 National Conference.

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Thank you so much for coming to this session.

I'm speaking kind of on this new bit, which I think all of you have had foisted upon you for free.

It's called The Secular Creed, engaging five contemporary claims.

But I'm going to tell you today's session is false advertising because I'm not going to engage these five contemporary claims quite exactly.

If you want to know exactly how I engage them, you can read the book.

But in our time today, we're going to do something that connects with a lot of those, but in a slightly different way.

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