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Ecumenism in the Trenches

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      Christian men exist in two kingdoms (the right and the left ‘hands’ of Christ) and three estates (family, Church, and State). Many modern men neglect the fullness of this reality via excessive focus on the Kingdom of the right hand of Christ (i.e., the Church). Further, and perhaps worse, many pastors believe that their role in the right-hand Kingdom entitles them to honors, respect, or other deference with regard to the left-hand kingdom — it does not.

      The domain of the pastor is the preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments. The domain of Christian men is all three of the estates of life — family, Church, and State. With regard to family and State, Christian men have many duties, but pastors have only one — silence. The role of the pastor is local and circumscribed; the role of Christian men is not exclusively so. The pastor qua pastor has nothing to say with regard to the State, to the kingdom of the left hand of Christ — that is the domain of Christian men.

      As Christian men, we must work together on the issues facing us, and that regardless of which kingdom or which estate. Pastors have their role and we have ours; the former must learn their limitations and the latter must do their duty.

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      0:00.0

      The The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

      0:41.7

      And I'm still, whoa.

      0:44.8

      On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing acumenism in the trenches.

      0:50.0

      We're going to do an episode today that, as we were doing the prep for it, Corey and I have a number of things that we want to say, a bunch of comments that we want to make about this area.

      1:00.4

      But we couldn't really find the skeleton holding it all together.

      1:04.3

      So I just want to acknowledge up front that by the end of this, we're not going to have some five-point plan for how to fix all the problems that we're going to talk about today.

      1:12.0

      But what we want to do is lay out some of the principles that all Christians should be carrying in our lives,

      1:20.7

      including in the portion of our Christian lives that are in our churches.

      1:25.0

      And we're going to talk some about the division there, you know,

      1:28.8

      between the left hand and the right hand kingdom of God, where there are church things,

      1:33.1

      and then there are political things, they're life things. And to some extent, those are

      1:37.8

      separate. And we're going to talk about some of the circumstances that we're facing today.

      1:42.4

      And we see them online, but although it's virtual, it's always symptomatic of what's actually

      1:47.7

      in people's hearts and what's really going on in the world.

      1:50.9

      So there'll be a number of places where we give examples of things that have happened on Twitter,

      1:55.0

      and some examples are specific to us.

      1:57.2

      None of it is about internet drama.

      1:59.2

      I don't want anyone to take that away from this. They're just simply examples of what is commonly believed among people.

      2:05.6

      The reason that we're going to tackle some of the questions we are addressing today is that although we can't give you a roadmap for here is exactly how this thing is structured that we're concerned about.

      2:19.0

      What we are already seeing, what we've seen in the last few years, a number of you who are

      2:23.9

      listeners, we and a number of you who are listeners will be facing attacks in ways that

      2:30.6

      are going to be addressed today, where you're told in your church or you're told by pastors,

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