#60 Is MOPS Shifting Toward Progressive Christianity? With Krista Bontrager

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

After receiving several emails from concerned people, I began to wonder if the worldwide ministry MOPS was beginning to adopt progressive Christian theology. Thankfully, my friend and fellow apologist Krista Bontrager played the role of investigative reporter to find out what MOPS is teaching, and what's behind their recent shift in branding and theology. On today's podcast, she shares what she discovered as we tackle the question, is MOPS shifting toward progressive Christian theology?

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0:00.0	Hey friends, Elisa Childers here.
0:12.7	Many of you may be familiar with MOPs, a Christian ministry for MOPs with young preschool
0:16.8	kids that meets in small groups and churches in over 60 countries all over the world.
0:22.1	But what do they believe theologically?
0:23.8	Today we're going to talk with a special guest who's done a bunch of research and we're
0:26.7	going to tackle the question, is MOPs going progressive?
0:39.0	My guest today is Christa Bond-Trigger and she is a fourth generation minister.
0:44.0	She's a theologian, a lay minister, author, teacher, former university professor and
0:49.5	home school mom.
0:51.4	So she earned her masters in theology and another masters in Bible exposition from Talbot
0:57.3	School of Theology there in California.
0:59.6	She's dedicated her life to helping others discover how to love God and walk in spirit
1:05.6	and in truth.
1:06.6	You can find everything she's working on from her website, her YouTube channel and her
1:10.9	podcast at theologymom.com.
1:14.6	She's got a weekly show called All the Things That's Such a Great Title to Christa, I love
1:19.3	that.
1:20.7	And her co-host Monique, I'm going to say this wrong, so you have to correct me, but do
1:25.6	Saan, is that right?
1:26.9	Yes, do so.
1:28.5	They discuss all kinds of relevant issues from a historical Christian perspective.
1:32.6	And I just want to say one thing I love about Christa is she's such a careful thinker,
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