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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Thank you. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.

I'm your host, Carl Truman, along with the other hosts, Amy Bird, the housewife theologian, and Todd Pruitt, PCA pastor.

Today we want to talk about an issue that it's not a new issue.

This kind of thing has been going on for some time, but there seems to have been rather a lot of it just recently.

And that is the apostasy of high profile.

I think the egregious term is Christian influencer. The apostasy of high profile, I think the egregious term is Christian influencer.

The apostasy of Christian influences, the most notable perhaps in the broader circles within which the three of us operate would be Josh Harris,

the sort of young, restless and reform movement. And more

recently, we heard of the sad departure from the faith of a man called Marty Samson, who's a leading

figure in Hillsong, which is the evangelical movement, I think, is particularly strong in the

Southern Hemisphere in Australia. Raises this question. So, I mean, people, sadly, Christians, professing Christians, lose their faith all the time.

You don't hear about a lot of people who depart from the faith.

We just hear about the big names.

But I wonder if there are particular pathologies in the culture of big name Christianity

that perhaps mean that the apostases that take place there exhibit certain common patterns that

perhaps we can probe.

So I'll throw it over to my two wiser co-hosts at this point before I come back on this.

Well, certainly, I don't think any of us would dare to say, well, this is why Josh Harris apostatized,

or this is why this guy from Hillsong, Marty Sampson, apostatized.

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