Listener Q&A: Bad Books, Error, Heresy, and More

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The trio meets at the VA bunker, and—even without their morning coffee—they manage to answer a few listener questions. Aimee brings up the “bad book” box, as Carl tries to offer an eco-friendly disposal solution for hazardous theological material.What’s the difference between error and heresy? Up to what age can the behavior of the child of a church office bearer disqualify him for leadership? What does it mean to manage the household well? And, last but not least, are Christian camps and conferences an appendix of the Church, or might they become an obstacle to regular attendance at the Sunday gathering? You don’t want to miss all the wisdom offered in this episode!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.
0:21.9	With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.8	Let's join this week's conversation. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:46.3	I'm Amy Bird, and I'm here at our new Harrisonburg, Virginia location with my co-host, Todd Pruitt, who is pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church here
0:56.5	in Harrisonburg, and Carl Truman, who is professor over at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
1:03.7	And although we didn't get the coffee that we demanded this morning, we've been drinking lots of
1:07.9	water and getting a little silly over here. And we were thinking about some questions to ask on the podcast for this episode and looking
1:15.0	at questions that have been emailed to us.
1:17.5	And one question I was contemplating is just I have this box in my study of bad Christian books.
1:25.9	Some are from research I've done for no little women,
1:29.1	like researching the bestsellers list.
1:31.4	Some are more academic and a little troubling or very damaging.
1:36.4	Like bad theology.
1:37.3	Bad like first doctrine order theology.
1:41.5	Did you write any yourself?
1:43.4	None of them are my own.
1:44.7	So we're not doing with the personal problem.
1:47.5	Okay, okay.
1:48.4	And then even, you know, when people donate books, you know, maybe 20 years ago to the church
1:54.1	library and they're still sitting in there and you see, oh, okay, we got some disturbing
1:58.0	books in our library.
1:59.5	And so I got this box full of bad books.
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