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The Best Show with Tom Scharpling

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Joseph Campbell Story Telling

Rucker: "Everybody's wearing pink. And it was so nice to see everybody having fun with a thing that was not Completely" He says the movie took 35 minutes to start because of all the people waiting for seats. Rucker and his girlfriend then went over to this place where they had an extra time before the film started. The restaurant has a Barbie-themed menu, but he doesn't know what made it pink.

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I feel like many of us have had that experience of being in a setting where you can tell the music is leading in a certain direction and you're resistant to it. Like you're not carried along entirely. I've been in churches where I've been in your church when I was a teenager and I was like, absolutely not. No, I'm not going along with this. And then I've been in other settings where I'm like, whoa, that brought me to an emotional place that I didn't know I needed to go or that I did want to get to. But I needed help understanding or. So thank you for that. Let's get into the second part of the question that I think is important where the kid is not just asking, why do we sing songs in church? He's like, I don't always understand the songs, and I'm just a kid, how am I supposed to understand the songs? Does understanding the meaning, the words of the songs matter? And in what ways does it matter? But I think what he's kind of getting at is like, lots of us don't always understand the things that are happening in church. How much is that important, especially with the songs that we sing? Well,
Speaker 1
compare for a moment to another, you know, sacrament or the central sacrament coming to the Lord's table.
Speaker 2
Dr. Packiam uses an important word here, sacrament, and later sacramental. When he says the sacrament, he means one of the central practices of the Christian faith, using a word that comes from a Latin word that means to consecrate. Historically, Christians have thought of sacraments as practices that impart divine grace, means that God has given us of regularly receiving grace from God. They are physical signs and seals of spiritual realities. This is one area where Christians disagree a lot. We disagree on the number of sacraments, what they mean, how to practice them. If you're Protestant, the two sacraments are baptism and communion, which Dr. Packiam is talking about here. There's too much for us to cover when it comes to sacraments as a whole, but don't worry, we're going to come back to this a bunch of times in later episodes. And
Speaker 1
there was a time, Caitlin, where people were very suspicious of singing being treated like a sacrament, you know, because singing can't replace actually coming to the Lord's table. I am not at all advocating that it replace that. However, I have the kind of sacramental approach that says this, if the Lord's table is the central sort of act of worship that the people of God do, then that ought to be not just a central practice, but a central paradigm. In other words, it should shape how we understand our other practices that we do in worship. So I have no problem with thinking of singing sacramentally. So now once we say that, now we can say, well, gosh, do any of us really understand the depth of what's going on when we take the bread and the wine? No, absolutely not, you know? And I love that the Greek Orthodox describe it as mysterious, as mystery.

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