A Church Called Tov | Scot McKnight & Laura Barringer
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Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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A Church Called Description: Tragically, in recent years, Christians have gotten used to revelations of abuses of many kinds in our most respected churches―from Willow Creek to Harvest, from Southern Baptist pastors to Sovereign Grace churches. Respected author and theologian Scot McKnight and former Willow Creek member Laura Barringer wrote this book to paint a pathway forward for the church.
We need a better way. The sad truth is that churches of all shapes and sizes are susceptible to abuses of power, sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse. Abuses occur most frequently when Christians neglect to create a culture that resists abuse and promotes healing, safety, and spiritual growth.
How do we keep these devastating events from repeating themselves? We need a map to get us from where we are today to where we ought to be as the body of Christ. That map is in a mysterious and beautiful little Hebrew word in Scripture that we translate “good,” the word tov.
In this book, McKnight and Barringer explore the concept of tov―unpacking its richness and how it can help Christians and churches rise up to fulfill their true calling as imitators of Jesus.
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About Scot McKnight:
Dr. Scot McKnight is a world-renowned speaker, writer, professor and equipper of the Church. He is a recognized authority on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, and the New Testament. His blog, Jesus Creed, is a leading Christian blog.
Dr. McKnight’s most recent books include Reading Romans Backwards and Pastor Paul.
A sought after speaker, he has been interviewed on several radio and television programs as well as spoken at numerous local churches, conferences, colleges, and seminaries in the United States and around the world. Scot McKnight is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Society for New Testament Studies.
McKnight’s books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese.
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About Laura Barringer:
Laura Barringer is a teacher of primary-grade students. She is the co-author of Sharing God's Love: The Jesus Creed for Children and wrote a teacher lesson and activity guide to accompany the book. She is also co-author of A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing. Laura is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and currently resides in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, Mark, and three beagles.
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Books mentioned on the episode:
A Church Called Tov: https://amzn.to/2Mz4mAG
Jesus & John Wayne: https://amzn.to/36KFHji
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: https://amzn.to/3cZZbVh
Icons of Christ: https://amzn.to/36OizAF
In the Closet of the Vatican: https://amzn.to/3pYfZzn
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.7 | Who's going to benefit if we use Matthew 18? The church. The church has to be seen then as a group that's protecting itself rather than seeking the truth. |
| 0:23.7 | A Christian response immediately looks for the victim and finds the wounded person and says |
| 0:34.9 | that's where we're going to shower our grace first. |
| 0:38.7 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, |
| 0:44.9 | physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:50.3 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. |
| 0:56.8 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:59.8 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 1:04.7 | Define more information about the Preacher Boys podcast and upcoming documentary. |
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| 1:18.9 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 1:22.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:23.3 | Welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm so excited to have Scott McKnight and Laura Berenger on the show. |
| 1:29.4 | They wrote the incredible book, A Church called Tove. And I'm really excited to talk to them about abuse within church cultures. |
| 1:37.1 | I know that the show specifically deals with independent Baptist churches and the abuse often happens within that movement. |
| 1:43.2 | But as I've said on the show before, |
| 1:45.1 | abuse looks the same in pretty much any context. It's the same dynamics. It's the same |
| 1:49.5 | kind of outflow of the cultures that these abuses take place in. But yeah, before we get |
| 1:56.4 | started, can the two of you just give me a little bit of context about what led to actually |
| 2:01.4 | writing this book? Because this isn't a topic that people necessarily get excited to write about |
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