Dr. Winfield Bevins joins the show to talk about the connection of liturgy and mission. Points he highlights in his new book, Liturgical Mission: The Work of the People for the Life of the World.
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Welcome to Jessup Think. Im your host Mark Moore and your co host Rex Gurney wrecks on the show today we're excited to have Dr. Winfield Bevins from Asbury Theological Seminary. He is director of church planting there. And he's here to talk about his new book liturgical mission.
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And I was really impressed with the book. And one reason was because he basically name checks every author that I read, and so it's got to be a good read if you do that.
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Definitely. He's well read and just a really good voice on liturgy and worship and how that connects us and sends us out to mission. So I really hope you enjoy the show.
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Yeah, Dr. Bevins is great to have you on the show. And really excited to kind of talk about your new book and looking at liturgy and mission bringing those two together. As we get started it would it be great to kind of hear your story. You're at Asbury seminary now working with church planning. So I'd love for you to kind of tell our listeners just a little bit about what you got going on in Kentucky.
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Yeah, I I'm in Kentucky. And so prior to come in here, my wife and I planted a church in a little place called the Outer Banks, North Carolina little stretch islands. And
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nowhere that is vacation land. Yeah.
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Yeah. So I was a surfer, right. So I hung up my surfboard and moved to Kentucky. And we've been here about seven years now. And it's, it's really been amazing. So I oversee a global church planning initiative, where we've worked with, we've helped train over 1000 leaders in 20 different countries. And so I work with a lot of different models and expressions of church. But I'm also an Anglican in an Anglican priest. And so I have this love of liturgy and mission. And while I work with all across kind of the denominational spectrums of you know, all sorts of denominational backgrounds, I really have a passion for both of those things. And that's kind of the heart of kind of what comes together in that book. So, yeah,
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so most of our students here actually don't come from traditions that most people would associate with them. liturgical traditions, although that word liturgy I mean, everyone has, we have a liturgy in chapel and same thing every single time. So, but one time, we actually had someone that you mentioned the book, Todd Hunter come in and a chapel here at Jessup. And it basically was trying to kind of introduce students to just some different elements of worship and stuff. And it actually went over really well. At least, I think so.
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Yeah. Well, Todd's a good friend. So I'm sure he did well.
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With the Anglican Church, that you're a part of what, talk a little bit more about that. Is it like the Anglican Church? Is it
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you know, honestly, that's probably a whole podcast ended up.
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Right, right. You know, because you
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have the Anglican traditions 80 million members worldwide. Yeah, you, you know. So yeah, I'm a part of kind of a new emerging Anglican movement in the US, that is connected to the global Anglican Communion. And, but really, honestly, I'm working all across, you know, different, you know, I work with Church of England. I, you know, I do a lot of work in us, but I'm actually a member of for the center, church multiplication, which is out of the Diocese of London, I do a lot of work with them. And
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last Lambeth conference. You know, I
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didn't, I did not know.
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Most of our readers wouldn't have listened,
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they would have no idea what the context is for that. But yeah, so I, you know, I do stuff with kind of key kind of mission thinkers in the Church of England. But also literally around the world, which is really cool