Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

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My name is Todd Pruitt, and I'm joined as always by my co-hosts Carl Truman and Amy Bird.

And we are living in interesting days, to say the least. We are in the midst of the

COVID-19 plague. It's been really, really interesting how this has played out, going from

something that we were thinking, well, you know, it's a little bit of a maybe a troublesome flu,

but, you know, we always weather

that well and we'll be fine. And to the point where it was declared a global pandemic, and now

we have whole entire cities in shutdown mode and local businesses and restaurants and coffee shops

closing down to the public, it could well

have, well, it already is having significant economic impact, but there's also, of course,

a spiritual impact because churches have been hit by this. We talked in an earlier episode

about just the challenge of doing worship together when you can't actually be together

and some of the things that the church is doing to try to have a temporary stopgap for that.

But we want to talk a little bit more on the subject, specifically in terms of what it means

to faithful church membership, being a part of the body of Christ,

what does that look like in a time where you're supposed to be away from everybody?

What does it look like to be a faithful Christian, a faithful member of Christ's church

when all of the experts are saying, go home and don't go outside.

Well, this presents obviously some problems with our discipleship,

because just in the same way as it did when we talked about worship,

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