“The church faces her biggest challenge not when new errors start to win but when old truths no longer wow.”

That’s the first line in Trevin Wax’s new book, The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith. Since you subscribe to my Gospelbound newsletter, then you know Trevin is a friend of this show. I link to his column just about every week. If this line from his new book doesn’t describe Gospelbound, then I don’t know what does:

The way forward is to reach back, to find renewal in something old—foundational truths tested by time, a fount of goodness that refreshes and satisfies, long-forgotten beauty from the past that lifts our eyes above the suffering and sorrow of the present.

His book The Thrill of Orthodoxy is full of vivid writing. Among the many other things I like about Trevin, he’s a builder. He works in teams, and he makes everyone else better. That’s what his writing helps us do, whether it’s as a columnist for The Gospel Coalition, or in his many books. In this episode of Gospelbound, we talk about why heresy hunters turn out to be heretics, how we can know if something is orthodox, and why he’s confident the future belongs to the orthodox. I hope he turns out to be a prophet:

The future of the church will not be forged by those who tire of the thrill of orthodoxy, but by those whose roots run deep through the ages of the Christian church and back into the pages of God’s inspired Word.