Friday, April 25, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:23)
Protestant Liberalism and the Death of Missions: The PCUSA Formally Fires Its Missionaries and Ends Its Missions Agency
- Presbyterian Church (USA) fires missionaries, ends mission agency by Birmingham News (Greg Garrison)
Part II (12:23 - 15:30)
How Do You Maintain Close Familial Relationships with Your Children as an Empty Nester? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (15:30 - 18:17)
Why Should I Accept the Responsibility of Leading a Family When I’m Busy Helping Those Around Me Instead? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (18:17 - 19:41)
Could Jesus Have Broken a Bone Since He Was the Perfect Lamb Who Was to Be Given as a Sacrifice? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (19:41 - 24:36)
As a Pastor, What is Your Opinion on Using Paper Books Versus Digital Books? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (24:36 - 28:00)
Should You Ask Forgiveness for Spilling Water? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 25, 2025. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.3 | worldview. |
| 0:13.5 | The PCUSA, one of the mainline Protestant denominations, one of the seven sisters of liberal |
| 0:19.6 | Protestantism in the United States, has recently |
| 0:22.1 | announced that it is firing its missionaries and ending its mission agency. So at first glance, |
| 0:28.3 | this appears to be a very sad story. The closer look, it becomes a very inevitable story. |
| 0:33.5 | But the news just broke, as Greg Garrison of the Birmingham News reported, quote, |
| 0:37.9 | the Presbyterian USA, a mainline Protestant denomination that has historically been one of the most |
| 0:43.0 | influential Christian missionary sending agencies, recently fired missionaries around the world, |
| 0:48.2 | and ended its foreign mission agency. The next paragraph, quote, the Office of Presbyterian |
| 0:53.7 | World Mission closed at the end of March after of Presbyterian World Mission closed at the end of |
| 0:55.1 | March after the Presbyterian Mission Agency merged with the Office of General Assembly |
| 0:59.4 | into the interim unified agency. End quote, well, that sounds like government bureaucracy, |
| 1:05.0 | but it means the end of organized missions through the Presbyterian Church USA. |
| 1:11.1 | There are some huge lessons here. |
| 1:13.9 | This is big news. |
| 1:15.1 | It's bigger than you might imagine, but it's a part of a very long story. |
| 1:18.9 | Now, before I go further, I need to clarify one very essential issue. |
| 1:24.3 | And that is that when I'm referring to the Presbyterian Church USA, I'm referring to a specific |
| 1:30.3 | Presbyterian denomination. It is the main liberal Presbyterian denomination in the United States. |
| 1:38.2 | About a generation ago, you had a merger between the northern liberal body and the southern |
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