Todd Wilken (issues, etc) recently took up this topic with Dr. Michael Horton (Westminster Seminary, California and The White Horse Inn). They addressed several primary themes including preaching, music, and the pastor’s role as coach, counselor and CEO. The air date is 7/9/06. You can find Todd’s shows archived at the Issues, Etc. website.
Mike: “When the church begins to assume we know all this stuff [theology, the renewing of our minds per romans 12] and thinks what we really need is practical stuff, then we just start going with the flow; even if we’re not explicit about it, we become secularized while we think that we are morally superior.
Todd: “Why don’t evangelicals notice that their own pulpits/Sunday mornings are being secularized?”
Mike: “There’s this huge assumption that the culture is neutral…
What we can’t spot is the decadence, not only in our own hearts, but the decadence that is part and parcel of putting the Christian faith in such a fragile knapsack as popular culture that cannot hold that
treasure, or pass it down to future generations.…What we really need is not only the content of the gospel, but the forms that Christ has given the church for carrying it.”
Another of Mike’s comments (paraphrased):
…the gospel of assumption is preached today: assuming Christ has done all of that, and you already know that. Now I’m going to talk about the practical side of life. And that is always to talk about law rather than gospel. What we really need is to learn how to raise positive kids in a negative world and how to clean up our marriages, how to be nicer to each other and so forth, instead of seeing Christ presented to us in His saving office Sunday after Sunday.
Posted by Hed Taggard 
Posted by Hed Taggard 