Bully Pulpit: Pastoral Rehab

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Addressing the resignation of high-profile pastor Mark Driscoll, the team discusses a relevant question: Can a pastor be restored to ministry? They offer biblical options to a dismal scenario churches face all too often. As usual, they don't hold back from exposing the underlying issues at hand and the ultimate hope amidst them. What if a pastor seemingly values his reputation over protecting the flock? Hear the gang answer how they'd deal with "bad-boy" pastors and their thoughts on what forgiveness looks like for them.For listening to this Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to give you a free MP3 from Ed Welch entitled, "Peer Pressure and Pastoring." Go to ReformedResources.org to download your free MP3!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, bully pulpit, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:27.8	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:33.0	This week, the gang will talk about what it means for a church to forgive a repentant pastor,
0:38.2	and what the pastoral reinstatement process would look like if that pastor should be reinstated at all.
0:43.9	At the end of the podcast, we'll tell you how to download a free MP3.
1:00.7	Well, today on mortification of Spin Bulley Pulpit, we want to talk about a perennially relevant topic, but one that is perhaps a particularly pressing importance at this time, given the high-profile
1:06.9	resignation of Mark Driscoll a few weeks ago for the Mars Hill Church and the kind of questions
1:11.3	that pastoral resignations raise for the issue of pastoral restoration. What does restoration
1:17.9	look like? What process should be involved in pastoral restoration? Can a pastor be restored to
1:24.7	fellowship and yet not be restored to his ministry. These are important questions
1:30.5	and whether you're in a mega church or whether you're in a small local church. There are things that
1:34.7	are likely to press in on you at some point in your Christian life. So let's open up for discussion.
1:41.7	Todd, you've been a pastor now at this church you're out for
1:44.3	six, seven weeks. I mean, you're still there after a year and a half.
1:48.7	Still there. Very impressed. But you've been a pastor now for decades. What's been in your
1:55.4	experience in this kind of thing? What are your thoughts on pastoral sin, pastoral restoration?
2:03.3	The higher you go up,
2:12.3	the ladder of leadership, the fewer options you have. So as a pastor, as an elder, an overseer in the church, you have fewer options, fewer options regarding your own behavior and fewer options for you
2:20.1	after you fail. And as you said, this isn't a question of whether or not a man after failing
2:26.3	in a significant way. It's not a question of whether or not he can be restored or should be
2:30.6	restored to the Christian Fellowship. If there's repentance, he must be restored
2:34.4	into the fellowship of Christ's Church. The question is this issue of office bearing. And in 1 Timothy
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