TS&TT: He Gets Us... But Not Like That!

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 794 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden talk about the "He Gets Us" campaign and the two most recent ads that played during the Super Bowl. They unpack the ads and discuss how they miss the real Jesus and the whole Gospel. Are these ads helpful? Does Jesus really "get us"? SHOW NOTES: 2025 National Founders Conference: Revive Us, O Lord!: https://founders.org/conference Support Founders Ministries: http://founders.org/give Find out more about The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org Founders Church Search: https://church.founders.org Founders Sermon Podcast Stream: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sermons-by-founders-ministries/id1613963681 Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Sword and Trial.
0:02.8	Today, Graham and I talk about, does Jesus really get us?
0:06.9	We address that he gets us campaign and the $100 million invested in this campaign
0:12.6	and how we should think about it as Christians in the light of what the Word of God says.
0:17.7	What kind of campaign is it?
0:19.1	What's it really doing?
0:22.4	Well, listen in and you will get our thoughts about this. Welcome to the Sword and Trial. The Sword and Trial is a podcast of Founders
0:34.6	Ministries. Founders exist for the recovery of the gospel, the
0:37.9	Reformation of Local Churches. I'm Tom Askell. And I'm Graham Gundin. We're glad to have you
0:42.2	join us today as Graham and I want to dive into the He Gets Us campaign. We are recording this
0:50.7	right after the Super Bowl, which was played in, I guess, last night or a couple of nights ago or so.
0:56.9	And I didn't know much about what was going on, watched part of the game before I went to bed, but went to bed long before the game was over.
1:06.0	So anyway, I stayed up long enough to watch that commercial that everybody was talking about and wondered what in the world was going on.
1:14.3	So we were subjected to various well dramatized images of people pouring water over the feet of other people.
1:25.9	So, Graham, what was that?
1:28.3	I recognized it right away, not necessarily as a He Gets Us campaign, but because I grew up
1:34.3	Mennonite.
1:34.8	And footwashing is quite the tradition amongst Mennonites.
1:38.3	It's something that we did regularly.
1:40.7	So I understood exactly what it was.
1:42.3	And then that he gets this thing kind of started to dawn on me.
1:45.8	Okay. But yeah, very, very good production, very well dramatized. Yeah. For a certain type of person,
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