Bespoken: Tailor-Made Truths for a Discerning Body Chapel Hill Bible Church

The label "evangelical" has shifted and evolved over time to a place in our present day when the term comes with all sorts of baggage - from cultural and political connotations to even racial and patriarchal assumptions.

In this 3-part series, Pastor Jay and Matt Gilleskie discuss the word in order to help the Bible Church navigate some complex cultural circumstances by clearly staking out our identity as an evangelical church.

In Part III, they address the following questions:
1. What do we mean when we say that CHBC is an "evangelical" church?
2. What kind of "evangelical" do we aspire to be, in particular? How do we get there?

The label "evangelical" has shifted and evolved over time to a place in our present day when the term comes with all sorts of baggage - from cultural and political connotations to even racial and patriarchal assumptions.

In this 3-part series, Pastor Jay and Matt Gilleskie discuss the word in order to help the Bible Church navigate some complex cultural circumstances by clearly staking out our identity as an evangelical church.

In Part II, they address the following questions:
1. What are the most helpful definitions of the term "evangelical"?
2. If we could set forth one positive definition, what might we say?
3. Who is an "evangelical" according to our definition (institutions, people, denominations, theological traditions, etc.)?

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
- A representative work by Francis Grimke: "The Negro: His Rights and Wrongs, the Forces for Him and Against Him": https://smile.amazon.com/Rights-Wrongs-Against-Classic-Reprint/dp/0331843307/
- "The Faithful Preacher" by Thabiti Anyabwile: https://smile.amazon.com/Faithful-Preacher-Recapturing-Pioneering-African-American/dp/1581348274
- "Plain Theology for Plain People" by Charles Octavius Boothe: https://smile.amazon.com/Plain-Theology-People-Lexham-Classics/dp/1683590341

The label "evangelical" has shifted and evolved over time to a place in our present day when the term comes with all sorts of baggage - from cultural and political connotations to even racial and patriarchal assumptions.

In this 3-part series, Pastor Jay and Matt Gilleskie discuss the word in order to help the Bible Church navigate some complex cultural circumstances by clearly staking out our identity as an evangelical church.

In Part I, they address the following questions:
1. Why is it important to define the term "evangelical" in our day?
2. Why is it so hard to do so?
3. What definitions have been offered in the past and in our present? (No value judgments!)

Jay and Matt discuss the upcoming week's sermon on 1 Peter 4:7-5:4. This passage continues the theme of last week's sermon: waiting on the Lord through suffering. They discuss why Jay chose this text and how you might prepare to hear the word preached this Lord's Day.

Matt is joined by Martin Shin to discuss Martin's recent sermon, which kicked off our advent season. They discuss the way to real joy and how God uses the local church to edify his people (plus what Martin misses most about Argentina and how he came to know the Lord, among much more).

How does Satan parody marriage through contemporary practices of dating and sexuality? How does he parody joy through the false promises of money, ecstatic experiences, and debauchery? The Evil One works through various aspects of our culture to enslave us and keep us from the good of God's design. Thanks be to God, who has delivered us from the dominion of sin through Christ. Now that we are free, how do we identify the distortions of the Evil One? Jay and Matt discuss the practical payoff of these questions in this episode.

SHOW NOTES:
- "The Whole Christ" by Sinclair Ferguson: https://smile.amazon.com/Whole-Christ-Antinomianism-Assurance_Why-Controversy/dp/1433548003