Well, we now get over 1,200 emails a month from listeners.

Thank you for those emails and please keep them coming into us.

And of course, we got a few emails related to the Nashville Statement, which was a public

document that you signed, Pastor John, and it was on human sexuality.

But we actually only got 10 emails about that statement in total.

Interesting.

And most of those emails were sympathetic.

By far, the most articulate pushback that we got came from a listener named Amy in this

email.

Hello, Pastor John.

Thank you for this podcast.

I'm sure you're aware of the criticism surrounding the Nashville Statement released

back in August, both from outside of the church but also from within the evangelical

world too.

It created quite a stir.

I know a faithful Orthodox reformed church planters and pastors working in larger metropolitan

contexts who find this statement unhelpful even as the document contains affirmations and

denials that are completely true, biblical, and agreeable to them.

It seems to be a matter of two related questions.

Number one, is hot topic orthodoxy announced and affirmed in the wide open public realm

appropriate in a casting pearls before swine kind of away?

And number two, is it helpful or harmful for outreach to draw public lines in the sand

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