ATBS “Church Discipline” w/ Mollie Callahan

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Documentary, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Mental Health

4.2 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Mollie Callahan, spiritual director and seminary student, joins to discuss the misuse of church discipline, its harmful impact, and how scripture has often been misapplied in these situations. She examines 1 Corinthians 5, Matthew 18, and stories like the woman caught in adultery, Zacchaeus, and the woman at the well to reframe church discipline through the lens of Jesus’ compassion, agency, and pursuit of the hurting. Support the show

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0:50.9	All right. We are excited to be back on another at the bus stop. We have a wonderful guest here today. We have Molly Callahan, who is a spiritual director. She is a seminary student pursuing Chapel C, working in the Chapel C field, which we're excited to talk to her about that.
1:11.1	She's also the spouse of Robert Callahan.
1:15.7	So we are excited to have Molly on the podcast today.
1:19.2	Welcome, Molly.
1:20.7	Thank you so much for having me.
1:22.4	I'm excited.
1:23.7	We are going to jump into just such a lighthearted topic called church discipline,
1:31.3	specifically rethinking church discipline, which, man, church discipline is a interesting topic
1:38.2	to talk about.
1:39.4	So yeah, we'd love to hear your thoughts about why you wanted to share about how we should be rethinking church discipline, and then we'll jump right in.
1:50.0	Yeah. So I was an elder at a church for a brief period of time.
1:57.1	It felt very excited about that, that I was kind of made to be in church leadership and
2:05.4	mentor and shepherd people.
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