{"id":991,"date":"2010-09-29T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2010-09-30T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T19:20:55","slug":"the-gospel-coalition-getting-practical-dsctgc-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/the-gospel-coalition-getting-practical-dsctgc-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel Coalition: Getting Practical (DSC+TGC Part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this series of posts introducing DSC to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/\">The Gospel Coalition<\/a> (TGC), we&#8217;ve been looking at the foundation documents that\u00c2\u00a0provide the basis for the partnerships that make up The Gospel Coalition network of churches and church leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Grounded in these commitments, TGC is serving the church in a numerous practical ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Resources:<\/strong> A <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/resources\/\">large database<\/a> of sermons, articles, lectures, and interviews searchable by topic, text, date and author. This is a vast treasury of Scripture rich reflection, exposition and instruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Blogs:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/\">Seven blogs<\/a> are hosted at TGC&#8217;s site, all of them valuable regular visits. We recommend two in particular to those working through theological issues and interacting with culture: <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/\">Justin Taylor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevindeyoung\/\">Kevin DeYoung<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publications:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/publications\"><em>Themelios<\/em><\/a> is a theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Book Reviews: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tgcreviews.com\/\">TGC \u00c2\u00a0Reviews<\/a> is home to book reviews, interviews with faithful readers, and book excerpts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conferences:<\/strong> A <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/conferences\/2011\/\">National Conference<\/a> is held every two years in April in the city of Chicago, alternating years with\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"www.t4g.org\">Together for the Gospel<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0another fine conference.\u00c2\u00a0The 2011 conference theme is <em>Preaching Jesus and the Gospel from the Old Testament<\/em> and includes breakout sessions with about fifty different speakers, most of whom are pastors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Networking:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/network\">The Gospel Coalition Network<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/network\/chapters\">Regional Chapters<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/network\/church-directory\">Church Directory<\/a> are all ways for gospel minded believers and church leaders to network for strength of the church and the spread of the gospel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that concludes this five part introduction to TGC. We are happily listed in TGC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/network\/church-directory\">Church Directory<\/a> and are encouraged with the recent news of <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2010\/08\/12\/announcing-new-council-members-tgc\/\">Ryan Kelly&#8217;s appointment<\/a> to the council. Bookmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/\">TGC&#8217;s site<\/a> on your browser and take advantage of what you find there for your encouragement and help in living and spreading the gospel for the glory of God.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post is fifth in a series of posts introducing DSC to The Gospel Coalition (Read, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=854\">Part 1<\/a><\/em><em>, <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=888\">Part 2<\/a><\/em><em>,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=903\">Part 3<\/a><\/em><em>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=905\">Part 4<\/a>)<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this series of posts introducing DSC to The Gospel Coalition (TGC), we&#8217;ve been looking at the foundation&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/the-gospel-coalition-getting-practical-dsctgc-part-5\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}