Slowly Reforming A Church

Summary: In today’s episode Pastor Chris Gordon sits down with Pastor Chad Vegas of Sovereign Grace Church and Westminster Seminary Professor Scott Clark. They discuss how Pastor Vegas began leaning toward reformed ideas and how through his research he came across Scott Clark’s blog. Their colorful story explains how a comment online led to healthy communication and debate between the two. Listen as they talk about the challenges and rewards as Pastor Vegas slowly but surely leads his church toward the reformed faith and to true church worship.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to Chad & Scott
05:55 - Transformation of Chad’s church
07:57 - Influence of Jason Faber
08:33 - Seeker Sensitive/Purpose Driven
09:39 - leaving the planted church
10:19 - Young Restless and Reformed
13:03 - Ecclesiology is like a diamond ring
15:10 - Church as a halfway house
16:23 - Heidelblog.net
16:53 - How Chad encountered Scott
20:12 - Reformed Theology answers questions
21:10 - The Principles of Worship
22:20 - Slowly reengineering the church
23:31 - Music in the Church
26:52 - Regulative Principle
29:35 - The Perception of Constriction

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