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Pastors and Feeding Time
Sunday is coming! In this episode of The Agrarian Pastor, we’re talking about the pastor and feeding time. No matter what happens you have to get a sermon ready. Plus we’ll look at the Proverbial Spurgeon and a couple of Greek words thrown in.
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In the first episode of the Agrarian Pastor you’ll join Clint Humfrey, as he talks about pastoring in a consumerist world: Are Pastors Pet Sitters?
Clint is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Grace Church in Calgary, Alberta. He also serves with Canadian ministries The Gospel Coalition Canada, Simeon Trust and Union School of Theology.
Clint is married to Christel and they raise three sons on the banks of the Highwood River.
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The Gospel Coalition, Together For the Gospel and the State of Reformed Evangelicalism Part I.
Like many pastors and watchers in the small pan-Reformed ecosystem, I have watched with interest as the Young, Restless and Reformed movement has changed.
If you don’t know, the Young Restless and Reformed, were those “new Calvinists” (another label) that adopted a ‘doctrines of grace’ theology, while maintaining much of the outside appearance of mainstream evangelicalism.
TGC, T4G, CBMW, and more acronyms have been the organizational fruit from that movement (another acronym YRR for good measure). These groups have different objectives but they tend to have a broad pan-Reformed constituency.
The Gospel Coalition
I’m on the Executive for The Gospel Coalition Canada. This is a broadly reformed, complementarian group that is a coalition, rather than a top down episcopacy, or a member driven denomination. Within TGC’s doctrinal limits, people can express wide ranges of opinion. There have even been disagreements within TGC. However, disagreements are to be conducted, as D.A. Carson instructed the TGC Canada council, with kindness and charity.
Together for the Gospel
I was invited along with Paul Martin to continue leading a Breakout session for Canadians at Together for the Gospel, a massive conference in Louisville, Kentucky which happens every 2 years. T4G started in a hotel ballroom, and has expanded to become the premier event on the conference calendar, now filling out Louisville’s basketball arena. T4G has had controversy with the fracture between CJ Mahaney and the remaining core men, Mark Dever, Al Mohler and Ligon Duncan. Yet T4G has adapted and grown as it has dealt with the controversies of the pan-Reformed world.
CBMW
With offices in Louisville, Kentucky, CBMW is an advocacy organization promoting biblically faithful sexuality, including roles of men and women as human beings collectively, and as binary sexes, male and female. CBMW has been at the front line of responding to the sexual revolution. My fellow pastor at my church, Gavin Peacock is the international director at CBMW, and we have had past president Owen Strachan and current president, Denny Burk speak at our church. The amazing thing about CBMW is that it is a very small shop. Yet because evangelical feminism is so large and influential in the mainstream church world, CBMW is the target for attack. How denominations relate to CBMW, the Danvers Statement and the Nashville Statement, is often a good indication of their robustness in biblical and theological health.
Stopping the Bleeding of the Evangelical Church?
That is some initial lay of the land. Before I close out this introduction, I will just include a piece for you, the reader to consider. It is a quote from David Wells in his essay, The Bleeding of the Evangelical Church. The essay was a talk which Wells gave, and which Banner of Truth subsequently published in 1996. [I met Wells in Massachusetts soon after and he gave me a copy.] Wells described the change between post-WWII evangelicalism and late 20th-century evangelicalism. He said:
What shaped the Church then, far more than it does now, was theological conviction about its character and purpose. What shapes it now, far more than it did then, is a marketing ethos. (emphasis mine).
The discussion question I would like to ask you is, what are examples today of the neo-Reformed movement having either a) theological conviction, or b) a marketing ethos?
In other words, has the neo-Reformed movement succeeded in ‘stopping the bleeding’ of the Evangelical church?
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