Bully Pulpit: The Business Church

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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How do pastors and church leaders keep themselves accountable to their congregations? What happens when a church is treated more like a business than a house of worship? Listen in to the Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit to hear Todd Pruitt and Aimee Byrd as they discuss the dangerous cult of personality that has taken hold of some aspects of the church at large. They give what everyone's come to expect from the Mortification of Spin - stepping on toes and taking the big guys down a few notches!The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer you a free download of the audio message, A Fool and His Money. It seems to be ingrained in us to always want more. We want to get ahead, to make our lives pleasant and comfortable. We want to secure our future, so we prepare for retirement. It’s easy for us to be busy storing up our wealth, forgetting that we are told not to gain treasure here on earth, but rather in heaven

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:10.6	This is our shorter, high-impact version of Mortification of Spin.
0:14.5	We call it Bullipulpit.
0:15.4	It gives us a chance to do a briefer podcast, but kind of a high-impact focus on a particular subject.
0:23.2	The Mortification of Spin is a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:28.7	We can only continue producing it with your help.
0:31.7	Visit Mortification of Spin.org to make a donation or call on 800488 1888.
0:38.4	How do pastors and church leaders keep themselves accountable to their congregations?
0:43.4	What happens when a church is treated more like a business than a house of worship?
0:47.9	Keep listening as Todd and Amy step on toes and take on the big guys.
0:55.2	My name is Todd Pruitt.
0:56.5	I'm the pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:01.2	I'm normally joined by Carl Truman, but Carl Truman is out globe trotting, I think,
1:05.1	at the moment.
1:06.0	And with me this morning is one of our regular contributors, Amy Bird, from the great state of
1:11.7	West Virginia. Hi, Amy. That's right. Hi, how are you doing? I'm good, good. Sorry if I disappoint the
1:16.5	listeners today, my voice isn't as balding bitter or British as Carl's. That is true. You look
1:24.4	nothing like Carl Truman. You sound nothing carl truman and for all of that
1:28.6	god's people said amen but i uh i do uh if you don't know amy bird has a wonderful blog site called
1:35.2	housewife theologian and has written an equally wonderful book by the same title and it's uh
1:41.9	it's fortuitous that we're talking this morning, Amy.
1:44.6	You just recently posted on the Ref21 blog site, a post titled A Plea to Pastors and Elders.
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