Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary

church in the ancient gospel. Today's podcast is a panel discussion from TGC 25 called

Unity, Diversity, and the Church at its best.

It features TGC Council members Michael Aitchison, George Robertson, Irwin Ince, and TGC President Mark Vrogop.

Hey, welcome to our breakout session about beautiful diversity so we are so glad that you're here

this is a really really important topic one that all four of us are passionate about coming at

this subject from different cities different denomin different experiences, and yet we have one

Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one mission to try and help the Church of Jesus Christ look

a little more like heaven like right now. So we are really grateful that you would like to

just be a part of this conversation and we hope that our time here

together with with you will be helpful and instructive. I hope you'll leave encouraged. I hope

you'll leave with some new questions. Sometimes in life, it's not that you have better answers,

but you just have better questions. Or in some cases, it's like, oh, okay.

So they're wrestling with some of the same issues.

So I'm going to just kind of persevere and continue on in the good work that you're doing.

Or perhaps you have particular questions that you're wrestling through

that maybe will give you some level of clarity to

today so we hope to be helped to you that's what our our goal is so one of the things that I love

about panels is an opportunity to dig into things a little bit deeper and so we've had a pre-meeting

just to talk about where we think this conversation is going to go at the same time I'm the moderator

and I can decide where it goes.

So that's going to be fun and enjoyable and that just scared all of them because we have a game plan,

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