Welcome to Church Chat, the show that has the conversations about ministry you wish you were having. Today, we're talking to Greg Strand, EFCA Executive Director of Theology and Credentialing. We chat about doctrinal purity, the significance of silence, theological guardrails, EFCA's denials and affirmations, cancel culture and the Church, theological anthropology, the next generation of theologians, and re-framing deconstruction.
Greg Strand is EFCA executive director of theology and credentialing, and he serves on the Board of Ministerial Standing as well as the Spiritual Heritage Committee. He and his family are members of Northfield (Minnesota) EFC.
Mentioned In This Episode:
- The Significance of Silence
- The Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism
- Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoffer
- EFCA's Denials and Affirmations
- Evangelical Convictions
- The Evangelical Free Church on Learning to Say Yes and No by Trevin Wax (September 19, 2024).
- Baby Dedication Service Sample by Greg Strand (May 8, 2022).
- The Bible, Dogmatic Rank, and a Statement of Faith from the Spiritual Heritage Committee
- Theological Anthropology
- Tyler Staton Ruth Sermon Series
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