Gateway Podcast: Episode 50

You can listen to or watch Gateway Podcast Episode 50 here.

Questions/topics addressed in this episode:

(NOTE: Timestamps are for video version only.) 

Questions/topics addressed in this episode:

(NOTE: Timestamps are for video version only.) 

*Lightning Round

How do you choose to name or not name a pastor/theologian in your sermons? And why? (2:55)

Does Josh regularly indulge in the viewership of the quality children's program known as Veggie tales? (11:45)

Questions 

I have been hearing various people throughout our church talking about the Enneagram.  We've done some surface level reading about it (the Gospel Coalition has a good article describing the history and recommendations on how Christians should approach it). We'd like to hear your thoughts on not only the pros and cons of the Enneagram, but also how we as a church should communicate our relationship with it. We have had a number of conversations with people in and out of the church where it has come up, and given that it has history in some unbiblical sounding things (Islamic mysticism, the occult, etc.) we'd like to make sure we aren't confused about how our church might be using it. Does it align with and reaffirm God's Word? If not, should it be used as a tool for discipleship? I believe that we can learn from secular things, but the concern is more of the origins and perception. (12:55)

Recommended Resources:

• 9 Types of Leadership by Chestnut
• The Complete Enneagram by Chestnut
• Personality Types by Riso and Hudson
• The Path Between Us by Stabile
• Self to Lose Self to Find by Vancil
• Typology podcast
• Leeann and Michelle (youtube)

When Acts 13:48 says, “All who were ‘appointed’ (chosen) for eternal life believed,” is that not confirming predestination? On another note, is that saying once saved always saved? (44:15)

Final Thought (47:25)