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Slowly Reforming A Church (Part 2)

In today’s episode Pastor Chris Gordon continues the conversation with Pastor Chad Vegas and Professor Scott Clark about the journey to understanding the reformed faith. They discuss the structure of the reformed church and why some mandates and traditions could be tricky for those from evangelical backgrounds. Pastor Vegas also shares more about how he’s leading his congregation to understanding the reformed faith and recognizing the authority of the church.

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Published

Oct 11, 2023

Hosted By

Pastor Chris Gordon

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Show Notes

Chapters:
00:00 - Corporate worship struggle
03:00 - The authority of the church
04:40 - Submitting to Elders
08:00 - Role of the Pastor
09:00 - Evangelical detox period
10:30 - Learning to stop and think
12:07 - Baby Boomer Churchgoers
13:36 - Understanding the Reformed Church
14:44 - Young People in the Church
18:03 - Direction of Sovereign Grace Church
18:30: - Infant Baptism
19:50 - What denomination?
20:50 - Planting churches
23:10 - Scott’s view of California
26:37 - Singing the Psalms

More:
Chad Vegas is Senior Pastor at Sovereign Grace Church in Bakersfield, California. Scott Clark is a Professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Westminster Seminary in California. Scott is an author and prolific contributor and editor to many publications as well as his online blog Heidelblog.net.

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Guests

Our guests on this episode included:

Pastor Chad Vegas

Chad Vegas is the founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church. After completing his M.A. in Theology at Talbot, and being the high school pastor at RiverLakes Community Church, Chad was called to plant a church in Bakersfield. He is also the founding board chairman of Radius International, an organization that trains people to plant churches among unreached language groups. His passion is to know Christ and to make him known. He has been married to Teresa since 1994, and they have two children and one grandson.

Church: bakersfieldchurch.org

Dr. R. Scott Clark

Dr. Clark was educated at the University of Nebraska (BA), Westminster Seminary California (MDiv), and St Anne’s College, Oxford University (DPhil). He was ordained to the ministry in the Reformed Church in the United States in 1988, where he served for ten years. He has been a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America since 1998.

He has taught church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California since 1997, where he served as academic dean (1997–2001). He has also taught at Wheaton College (1995–97) as visiting professor, and has served as a visiting professor at Reformed Theological Seminary (Jackson) and Concordia University Irvine.

x: @RScottClark