Bully Pulpit: Revisiting an Old Favorite

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Time for another book review, and we're giving this one three thumbs up! Our hosts discuss the recent republication of The Church of Christ, a classic of Scottish Presbyterian polity and theory by James Bannerman. This book highlights the Church's role, power, and importance during a time the world (and even Christians!) struggles to see its purpose. Does the church stand a chance in societies that continually belittle its values and undermine its presence? Not surprisingly, the world is growing more uncomfortable for Christians, so we must purpose to understand what God intended for His Bride and keep heart. Bannerman helps us do just that.This week The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to give you the opportunity to win a free copy of James Bannerman's The Church of Christ. You can enter here to win a free copy of this timeless work.Additional ResourcesThe Post-Indiana Future for Christians

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, Polly Pulpit, a casual conversation about things that count.
0:23.2	With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:26.4	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:31.7	The church in America is in serious need of help, but where can we look for that help? On this episode, the hosts open up an old book to find the answers.
0:42.8	At the end of the podcast, we'll tell you how to enter to win that old book.
1:00.1	Welcome to Mortification of Spin Bullie Poulpit.
1:15.8	Today we're doing the first of what may well be a number of podcasts, picking up on themes and reflecting upon an extremely important republication, and that is the republication, not of the covenant of works, as some of our friends at West might be thinking at this point, but of the
1:21.6	Church of Christ by James Bannerman, a classic of Scottish Presbyterian theory, expression of, great expression of Presbyterian
1:31.2	polity, which in the new edition from Banner of Truth has been massively improved by the
1:35.6	addition of an outstanding introductory forward by somebody, well, modesty forbids me from
1:42.8	mentioning this person's name on air. Put it this way,
1:45.6	the purchase price, it's worth it just for the foreword. Anyway, one of the reasons why James
1:52.9	Bannerman's work is significant at this particular moment in time, interestingly enough,
1:59.7	is that the tsunami that is descending upon us at this particular
2:05.5	point in time relative to cultural and political issues in the wider world has really
2:12.2	made it very clear that those churches that do not have a strong sense of self-identity,
2:18.9	which requires, of course,
2:27.2	a clear polity and an elaborate confession of faith, stand very little chance of being able to,
2:33.0	I would suggest, keep their people on board, given all of the cultural pressures that are coming,
2:35.3	and secondly, offer an articulate and well-thought-out response to many of the cultural challenges in
2:40.9	this context polity and elaborate confession are going to be absolutely vital
2:45.3	and James Bannerman speaks among many other things to precisely those two points.
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