Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

We'll join the crew this week to talk about an issue that may come up during holidays, birthdays, family gatherings, or in our social circles.

What are the boundaries between the offense of the gospel and simply being offensive?

And when will we cross the line from being helpful to harmful with our Christian evangelism?

So Carl.

Hey, Amy.

How are you doing?

I'm doing fun.

Yourself?

I'm doing pretty good.

I was thinking about this week, you know, we've been starting this new desperate

theologizer where we like to nominate a new desperate theologian of the week for our bully

pulpits, where we see some articles that just people are picking some interesting topics,

whether it's about cupcakes or TV shows, and trying just a little too hard to theologize that topic. And I think you got a

pretty going for us this week, don't you? Yeah, we're actually breaking with tradition in that we're

not going to spend our first few minutes rubbishing Baptists or errant Presbyterians this point.

We're going for an element in the Missouri Synod

Lutheran Church.

Oh, interesting.

I want to talk about the 5-2 network, which is built around the idea of the sacramental

entrepreneur.

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