GravesEnd Podcast #1 – The Flobots can Preach
Posted by Tim Melton on May 8, 2008
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Justin Woodall and Tim Melton discuss the song “Handlebars” by the Flobots and examine the notion that the Gospel may often be better preached by secular artists than by the Church. It seems that the Church’s purpose of proclaiming the Gospel has been slowly subverted by political agenda, advertising, deconstruction, and theological wrangling. Is God using secular “ministries” to shame the Church into action? Should a hip/hop band from Denver be better than the Church at proclaiming the Gospel and loving the poor and needy?
Amid much banter and nonsense, Justin Woodall and Tim Melton, assistant pastors at Surfside PCA Church, discuss their lives, the Gospel, Theology, Culture, and Spirituality. Sometimes, they even manage to say something important. But alas, that is all too rare.
stephen said
I felt like I was listening to a contemporary comedy show…good insight…I liked the Flobots song a lot…
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Zack B said
hey uncle timmy its zack. i liked this a lot when i wuz listenin to this. i love tht song and i loved how you analylzed it. and i loved tha part about i christianed my pants. tht was really funny. it wuz really great. and i reviewed ur podcast on itunes so u should check tht out. mkay well see ya next thusday. PEACE
mary said
Great discussion. Just one thing, though: it interests me that in the preamble, you insert that little dig at deconstruction in the church, when you proceed to deconstruct all over the place in your podcast. Not that I’m against it–I think you did performed your deconstructions very well
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Tim Melton said
Mary, Thank you for your response. We are definitely against deconstruction of the Church. However, we are not against renewing the Church. Deconstruction seeks to totally undermine the Church until nothing is left but little more than a trivial religious affiliation. Deconstruction pulls the Church’s teeth and then wonders why she is impotent. That’s not what we’re after. But we do believe that the Church should be continually reformed and renewed. I’ve written an article that explains this further at
http://sacrosanctgospel.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/maybe-the-flobots-cant-preach/#more-66
You should check it out.
mary said
I read that post after listening to the podcast and also thought that it was great. (Out of curiosity, why does the URL imply something so different from the article’s title?)
I’m reticent to reply fully to your reply, because I suspect that we may be speaking from different perceptions of the project of “deconstruction,” in which case, if I continue the conversation, we’ll just end up talking past each other. If you do wish to continue the conversation, can you let me know what your source for/definition of the concept of “deconstruction” is?
I’m not sure I should keep talking whether we’re in the same place regarding the meaning of deconstruction (what an odd phrase!) or no. In either case, I don’t feel knowledgeable enough to venture too far. I’m just not sure where “too far” is. :-/