Welcome to our Tuesday show with Kerby Anderson! He’ll begin by bringing us the latest from today’s headlines. Then in the second hour, he welcomes a brand new guest. Kerby speaks with Paul Gutacker. Dr. Gutacker brings us his book, Practicing Life Together, covering topics such as discipleship, Christian living, and theology.
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Historian | Author | Teacher
Paul Gutacker is a historian in Waco, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in history from Baylor University and a M.A. in Theological Studies and the Th.M. in History of Christianity from Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. His research focuses on the ways which American Protestants have remembered, studied, and argued over Christian history. In 2023, his book The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past came out with Oxford University Press. Paul, his wife, Paige, and their four children enjoy living in Waco, where since 2018 they have shared life with the Brazos Fellows, a community that studies, prays, eats, and discerns together. When he’s not teaching, he loves sharing in favorite pastimes with his kids: cooking, fishing, reading, and rooting for the Buffalo Bills.
Practicing Life Together: A Common Rule for Christian Growth
Practicing Life Together invites emerging adults to consider participating in a common rule that will guide their growth and cultivate genuine community. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer discerned, Christian community is “not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.” Christians don’t have to go it alone during the formative years after college—it’s possible to practice life together. Paul Gutacker introduces practices we can take up with others—communal prayer, weekly dinners, studying together, and Sabbath—in the hope that these can become life-shaping habits.