Bully Pulpit: Abusive Pulpits

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Child abuse … it's not just a Catholic church issue but pervades into the pulpits and pastorate of the Protestant church, too. What measures does your church take in checking the backgrounds and even reputations of its leaders? What cover-ups are there? Is there room for questioning a leader…even leaders with "immaculate" records or "big-names"? The Church must take seriously the damage done when turning a blind eye, misusing grace and mercy at the expense of victims who may remain silent and leaders going unchecked in their power. 1 Timothy and Titus give us ample reason to put our leaders under a magnifying glass so to protect the flock from a potential, even preying shepherd. This is a relevant conversation, one every church should take time to consider and apply.This week on Mortification of Spin, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to give away Low Deeds in High Places by James Boice as a free audio download. The Discount is applied at checkout.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:26.1	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:31.6	This week, the crew hits hard on the subject of public scandal.
0:35.8	How should Christians and churches deal with it,
0:38.6	especially the public exposure of sexual abuse,
0:41.6	and how can we separate truth from slander?
1:12.0	Well, this week on Desperate Theologising, we had a few interesting posts sent in, but I think the winner by a short head, as we would say, in the horse racing world, is an article that appeared on the Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhoods page. When I first read it, I actually thought their site had been hacked, but it's still there.
1:17.0	So I assume it was actually real.
1:19.9	You're going to lose some friends over this, Truman.
1:21.7	No, I've lost all those friends a long time ago, man.
1:25.0	The only two friends I have are actually talking to me on the podcast
1:28.4	at this particular moment in time. So unless Amy's offended by this, I think I'm safe.
1:33.8	It's entitled Soap Bubble Submission by Martha Pierce. And it's really the story about how
1:39.0	this lady was in kind of sinful conflict with her husband because when she washed the dishes,
1:46.0	she never quite got all the soap off. And her husband would constantly remind her of this.
1:52.9	I think at my own home, if I did that with my wife, I hope that you would all come and visit me
1:58.7	in hospital while I was recovering.
2:02.7	But anyway, her husband kept reminding her of this,
2:05.1	and it irritated her until she realized that actually it was because she had not grasped biblical teaching on submission.
2:09.7	And I'll read the climactic moment of the piece,
2:16.0	the happy ending.
2:20.5	Talking about washing the dishes.
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