Bully Pulpit: The Scarlet Letter

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

There's a searing spotlight on adultery in today's headlines, highlighting the recent blow up of the Ashley Madison hack that exposed many - and church leaders were among the fallen. Carl, Aimee, & Todd discuss the havoc such sin wreaks on the sinner, the cost to the spouse, and their children. The Spinning Trifecta also addresses some misconceptions about sin such as, "All sin is the same in God's eyes," and they look into what Jesus means in Matthew 5:28. Reality is, none of us are immune to sin, even the most grievous, so how do we go about protecting ourselves from falling in this very particular way? For this week's Bully Pulpit, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to give you a free MP3 download, "The Westminster Assembly on Marriage and Divorce," by Richard Gamble. You can download your free audio message at Reformed Resources.

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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.
0:25.7	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.9	With so much in the news lately about high-profile Christians, both laymen and clergy, breaking their wedding vows and ruining their marriages,
0:39.0	the spin team takes the issue head off.
0:41.9	When does sexual sin become adultery, and how should we view it?
0:46.2	Keep listening to hear their thoughts on the issue.
0:48.5	And stay tuned until the end of the podcast, where we'll tell you how to download a free
0:52.3	MP3 message from the Alliance.
0:57.3	Welcome to Mordification of Spin.
0:59.2	I'm here with my co-hosts, Todd Pruitt, and Yoko Ono.
1:05.6	Today, actually, that was a rather flippant beginning for a serious, serious topic.
1:10.6	But today we're actually going to be discussing something very serious.
1:15.9	It's a hardy perennial of the Christian world, and sadly a highly perennial of the pastoral ministry throughout the centuries.
1:25.2	And that is the problem of sexual immorality and adultery among Christians and perhaps
1:32.4	particularly among members of the ministry, among members of the clergy.
1:38.2	Adultery has hit the headlines recently in a number of high-profile cases.
1:42.1	I don't know a single minister who couldn't regale you with stories of five, six, ten,
1:50.3	12 ministerial colleagues who've crashed and burned through sexual immorality through
1:55.9	adultery over the last decade or 15 years.
1:58.8	So this is a very, very pressing topic.
2:02.9	Todd, preliminary thoughts.
2:05.8	Yeah, well, it's certainly been in the headlines recently, and I was thinking about that just a second ago, and almost wanting to say, when isn't in the headlines?
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