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Mortification of Spin

Bully Pulpit: To Toke or Not to Toke

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4879 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2014

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

With many states moving to legalize marijuana churches may now and certainly will soon have to deal with congregants smoking pot. Does the Bible allow for use of substances like marijuana? What part does a Christian's freedom play in the use of the drug? How should churches respond? Carl, Todd, and Aimee debate the moral and ecclesiastical ramifications of smoking pot. If you found this Bully Pulpit interesting, the Aliiance of Confessing Evangelicals has a free resource for you. How Low Can You Go? by James Boice

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0:00.0

This is Mortification of Spin, a bully pulpit from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

0:11.4

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0:13.5

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0:21.1

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0:27.2

You are listening to the mortification of Spin, Bully Pulpit.

0:31.2

I'm Todd Pruitt, one of your hosts, and I am joined as always by Carl Truman and Amy Bird. And, you know, we really kind of want to hop

0:40.2

right into this because Amy seems to be very preoccupied with a particular topic today. Amy,

0:44.7

what do you have for us? Well, guys, before we get started, I just wanted to recognize that

0:49.9

there are certain labels our listeners may be looking for. And we at MOS care about these things.

0:55.3

So to all you listening out there, I assure you that your hosts are cage-free.

1:01.9

Of course, this is with the exception of our brother Larry for obvious reasons, but we don't

1:06.3

really care to speak of him.

1:08.1

But today we're participating in an organic, non-GMO excursion.

1:14.4

Carl, where is our investigative vigor taking us today?

1:18.6

Well, we're actually at an undisclosed location in Colorado where we're standing outside

1:23.9

what I believe Americans call a bong shop, where you can buy paraphernalia and indeed

1:31.6

marijuana itself which is raising quite a number of questions of course in Christian

1:39.9

minds about how the church respond to the legalization of the drug. And so knowing that Todd has this

1:50.4

reputation for insanely strict discipline in his church, we've all read the headline stories

1:56.5

of the book burnings, etc., etc. Todd, I want to put this question to you.

2:03.2

You, in your congregation, let's say you have a patriotic, courageous lady who's been abroad

2:09.1

fighting in the American army for her country.

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