{"id":31396,"date":"2023-11-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?p=31396"},"modified":"2023-11-07T22:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T11:58:43","slug":"gospel-led-regeneration-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/gospel-led-regeneration-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gospel-Led Regeneration: Questions\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"&amp;#8216;Gospel-Led Regeneration: Questions\u2026\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-11-08T01:00:00+11:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT8M27S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"[et_pb_section fb_built=&quot;1&quot; _builder_version=&quot;3.22&quot;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&quot;3.25&quot; background_size=&quot;initial&quot; background_position=&quot;top_left&quot; background_repeat=&quot;repeat&quot; custom_padding=&quot;0px||0px|||&quot;][et_pb_column type=&quot;4_4&quot; _builder_version=&quot;3.25&quot; c...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"7.7\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2FGospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fgospel-led-regeneration-questions%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=31396-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 8:27 &#8212; 7.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Read&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his post, \u2018Unherd\u2019, on September 24, 2023, Peter Franklin comments on a new book, <i>The Great Dechurching<\/i>, by Jim Davis and Michael Graham (August, 2023). They observe that in recent years some 40 million Americans have stopped attending church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now it\u2019s easy to say this is not surprising \u2013 perhaps because of the shocking abuses perpetrated in various churches, and also the trickle-down impact of the secular liberalism of influential universities, denying the existence of the divine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">However, it seems the reasons are not that simple. For example, Franklin observes that Davis and Graham comment that while it is most likely that young adults are staying away from church, \u2018it is those with the most education in this cohort who are the least likely to quit\u2019. Franklin also points out that the writers observe that \u2018among people quitting evangelical churches, levels of conservative religious belief remain high\u2019. They further comment that \u201cevangelicals are dechurching at almost twice the pace on the right political flank than they are on the left\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Significantly, Davis and Graham observe that of America\u2019s absent evangelicals, \u201cmore than half [\u2026] are willing to come back right now\u201d. To which Franklin comments, \u2018They just need better churches.\u2019 He also notes that \u2018until then, there are millions of non-college-educated Americans whose religious and political views put them at odds with the secular liberal establishment, but who lack strong institutions of their own\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Given the complexity of the American church-going scene, and with it, the reality that there is at least a Christian memory in the wider community, let me suggest that you may find it helpful to develop questions to ask family and friends over coffee. To that end you may find it useful to reflect on key points Paul the Apostle raised almost two millennia ago in the course of his address at the Areopagus in ancient Athens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Responding to the questions amongst the Athenian intelligentsia who were asking, \u2018What is this babbler trying to say?\u2019, Paul stood up and said: <i>\u201cAthenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, \u2018To an unknown god.\u2019 What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you\u201d<\/i> (Acts 17:22ff).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was an ingenious opening to what is both <b><i>a defense<\/i><\/b> and <b><i>presentation<\/i><\/b> of God\u2019s good news. Without quoting from the Bible yet drawing from what it reveals about God, he engaged with contemporary ideas within Greek thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So, let\u2019s begin by identifying the first of Paul\u2019s key points with a view to developing questions we might ask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cThe God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands,\u201d<\/i> Paul began. <i>\u201cAnd he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else\u201d<\/i> (Acts 17:24-25).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The view that we live in a world that has been created by one God who is Lord of all was a very different worldview from the Epicureans in Paul\u2019s audience. They believed in chance and the pursuit of pleasure. It was also very different from the pantheism of the Stoics and their stiff upper-lip approach to life. And today, it is a very different worldview from the Hindus, the Buddhists and scientific atheists who all reject the notion of a creator God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yet it is a worldview many esteemed scientists today support. For example, Charles Townes who won the Nobel prize for his discovery of the laser has stated: \u201cIn my view the question of origin seems always left unanswered if we explore from a scientific view alone. Thus, I believe there is a need for some religious or metaphysical explanation. I believe in the concept of God and in His existence\u201d (quoted in Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer, <i>Science &amp; Christianity, Conflict or Coherence<\/i>? Third Edition, 2023, p.70).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The universe in which we live did not come into existence by random chance. There is a creator God and logically he can never go away. The Athenians reckoned that they were independent, free spirits, able to make their own decisions without reference to any God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nothing much has changed! But Paul won\u2019t have any of it: God is the one who continues to sustain the life he has created. It\u2019s absurd to think that he needs to be sustained by us. And yet we want to domesticate him. We build grand church buildings and put him in there. We don\u2019t let him loose on the street let alone in our lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2018No!\u2019 says Paul. \u2018<b>We depend<\/b> on God, not he on us.\u2019 <i>\u201cThe God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands<\/i>. <i>And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else\u201d<\/i> (Acts 17:24-25).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">How important it is that we find ways to awaken family and friends to these profound truths \u2013 especially those who have stopped going to church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Here are some questions you may want to explore:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\">Do you agree that our capacity to deceive ourselves is endless? We tell ourselves that what we think must be true. But wanting a win in the lottery never created a win.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Do you reckon that saying there is no creator God is a sign we have lost touch with reality and inhabit a dream world of our own?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Would you prefer that God did your will and turned up only when you wanted him?<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">What do think of Paul\u2019s words?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\">More next week!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>A prayer.<\/i><\/b> Lord Christ, eternal Word and Light of the Father\u2019s glory: send your light and your truth so that we may both know and proclaim your word of life, to the glory of God the Father; for you now live and reign, God for all eternity. <b>Amen.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;40px|||||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u00a9 John G. Mason<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support the Word on Wednesday ministry <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/give\/\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"&amp;#8216;Gospel-Led Regeneration: Questions\u2026\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-11-08T01:00:00+11:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT8M27S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&amp;#8216;Gospel-Led Regeneration: Questions\u2026\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"7.7\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2FGospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fgospel-led-regeneration-questions%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-3\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=31396-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Gospel-led-Regeneration--Questions.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 8:27 &#8212; 7.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>In his post, \u2018Unherd\u2019, on September 24, 2023, Peter Franklin comments on a new book, The Great Dechurching, by Jim Davis and Michael Graham (August, 2023). 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