{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"The sound of rebellion: Rock 'n' roll, the gospel and the movement the church needs","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2529,"description":"Rock and roll didn't come from nowhere. It came from the blues, which came from the gospel songs sung in the fields during slavery. It crossed the Atlantic, bounced off post-war England, came back to America even bigger, and kept evolving and Led Zeppelin turned it into something visceral and enormous and still traceable back to its roots.\nJoel, Stu and Tim are continuing the movements conversation. This week the thread runs from the Blitz to the Beatles to the Sex Pistols to the question every church leader needs to sit with: when does contextualising the gospel become syncretising it? And how does the church remain a movement without losing the gospel?\nStu's honours thesis on the social implications of strategic bombing. Tim's contextualization sessions at YouthWorks Conference. Christopher Watkins on flour in a baked cake. John Stott on hippies looking for all the right things in the wrong places. And Ecclesiastes 3:11 — God has put eternity in the hearts of men.\nDiscussed on this episode\nBecoming Led Zeppelin\nChristopher Watkins - Biblical Critical Theory\nPete Ward - Liquid Church\nAdam Smith - Four Stages of Society\nChess Records\n\nPrevious episodes in this series:\nNew Wine, Old Wineskins\nFrom Consumer to Contributor\nTimestamps\n00:00 Welcome — Led Zeppelin documentary and favourite songs\n04:00 Stu's honours thesis — the Blitz and strategic bombing\n07:00 How Britain baited Hitler into the Blitz\n10:00 Post-war America and the roots of teenage rebellion\n13:00 Blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll — the gospel root\n16:00 Port cities as the internet — records crossing the Atlantic\n18:00 The transatlantic bounce — Beatles, punk and amplification\n20:00 Tim's bridge — contextualisation and why the gospel travels\n23:00 Flour in a baked cake — Christopher Watkins\n25:00 The missionary who wouldn't baptise until they learned to farm\n27:00 The Scottish Enlightenment and how it corrupted the mission\n29:00 Rock and roll as syncretism\n31:00 The Reformation as movement\n33:00...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}