Great, great stuff. I listened to it twice and liked it better the second time.
As with the previous three episodes, I highly recommend it.
Two comments:
1. They start out with a brief comment connecting what they're doing with John Winebrenner and the years even before the Church of God was formed.
2. They talk repeatedly, in earlier episodes, but in this episode more than ever, about being intentionally offensive and controversial and radical.
They've been saying all along that their podcast is for the study and application of the Bible.
So, the application of what they consider to be offensive, controversial and radical. Hmmm.
It certainly doesn't offend me personally. It's what I've been saying for a long time.
But I'll say to ERC people who don't simply "do what is right in their own eyes," but who have been satisfied with CGGC walk in recent decades, this has to be controversial and seem uncomfortably radical.
These guys focus on Jesus first. They talk about church and, obviously, they love the community of disciples of Jesus. But, they are about Jesus first.
When they are offensive and controversial, it's in connection to church habits and traditions divorced from what Jesus taught and did.
I sense that these guys are genuinely serious about connecting talk to walk.
I often talk about followership. I wonder if followership will take place based on what they are teaching and the application they seem to expect.
Over my many years in the CGGC, it seems that we have a culture that loves to listen to radical talk and are happy with it, so long as we don't have to do it. We never do it.
I could very well be wrong about these guys connecting talk and walk, but I don't think so.
We'll see.
Fireworks?
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