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White Horse Inn

Theology, Worship, and the Local Church: A Conversation in Kenya

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Michael Horton and Adam Smith travel to Nairobi, Kenya, for Sola Media’s annual Theo Global Symposium. While there, they met with local pastors Ken Mbugua and Joshua Lemaiyan from Emmanuel Baptist Church. 

 

In this discussion, the hosts and guests explore the unique challenges and commonalities of pastoring in Nairobi and America and delve into the need to integrate theology and worship in order to build solid foundations in the local church.

 

Ken Mbugua is the managing director of Ekklesia Afrika and Joshua Lamaiyan is a lecturer at the Nairobi Institute of Reformed Theology



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Featuring:  Michael Horton, Adam Smith, Ken Mbugua, Joshua Lemaiyan

 

Transcript

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Our hearts are idle factories.

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Luther and Calvin.

0:06.6

And that's certainly the case amongst Calvinists as well, reformed folk, we kind of assume that stops being the case

0:16.7

now when we become reformed, but such, you know, idle factors are our hearts that we will take

0:22.1

reformed theology, we will take reformed theology,

0:24.0

or we will take a clear articulation of the gospel and make an idle out of it.

0:28.0

I mean that's the shocking stuff right there.

0:30.0

Proud of knowing we're totally depraved.

0:32.0

That's you said earlier. proud of knowing we're totally depraved. And there's a friend of mine given you're quoting great theologians.

0:38.0

I was friend of ours called John Mossimi.

0:41.0

And he says, religious idols are the most dangerous because as we bow down to them we look more holy. applying the riches of the reformation to the modern church, this is Whitehorse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture. Hey there this is Adam Smith. I'm the chief operating officer at Sola Media and I am here in Nairobi

1:26.4

Kenya with Dr Horton. We are here for our annual Theo Global Symposium which we do with Scholars and Theologians from across East Africa.

1:36.2

We are here in Nairobi, Kenya today and we're joined by a couple special guests and we're excited

1:40.8

for this conversation to have with them and to share with you.

1:44.8

We are joined by Pastor Ken Bugwa, who is the head pastor here at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Nairobi

1:52.1

and he is the managing director of Ecclesia Africa.

1:55.6

We're also joined by Joshua Lamayon, who is the associate pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church and

2:02.2

he also teaches course here at Nairobi Institute of Reformed theology and does a podcast for them called Studius.

2:12.0

So gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us this morning. It's a joy to be here. for them

2:13.0

called Studious. So gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us this morning. It's a joy to be here and to be with you.

2:16.0

Thank you for having us.

2:17.0

Great.

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