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Doctrine and Devotion

Mailbag: Dec 19, 2019

Doctrine and Devotion

Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy and Joe are back to answer some questions from the mailbag. How should we deal with the combative hyper-conservative types who come after people with slander?When are sabbaticals for pastors too long? What do elder candidates do at Redeemer Fellowship? How should we think about the mental health of church members and the health of our local churches? Plus, Joe and Jimmy judge our listeners’ inability to write coherent emails.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dr and devotion, a podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a

0:17.8

Reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor of

0:21.2

Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles Illinois. And I'm Jim Fowler, executive pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles Illinois.

0:23.0

And I'm Jayonnaise, I'm Jayonnaise,

0:25.0

You know what the slogan is for Vegas, right?

0:28.0

I know you've been to Vegas, or you know the slogan of Vegas.

0:30.0

Yes, I have been there a few times.

0:31.0

What is the slogan?

0:32.0

I can't talk about it. That's not the slogan. No, no, but I can't tell you because everybody knows what

0:37.3

it's in all the commercials. There's days there and I can't let you know exactly what happens in Vegas

0:41.2

stays in Vegas, right? Now thankfully that is not the slogan of

0:45.2

Slack because on Slack today you had to issue another apology. Why are you doing

0:51.4

you see you are like a walking apology. Like every arena of life you're issuing apologies.

0:57.6

Here's a difference though, between myself and others, right?

1:00.6

Yeah. I know how to apologize. I've had so much experience. Yes, you you have a doctorate.

1:06.6

So I have learned I have gone through the defensive and like justifying my you know my sid I'm sorry but yeah or even that even

1:16.2

not even not even do that blaming you oh yeah right like the whole blaming the

1:20.5

individual not even ever saying sorry right then I went to the sorry but right then I finally arrived to

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Nice. I'm sorry. Hey man, I'm sorry. This is what I did it was wrong wrong. Hope you'll forgive me. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. That's the only apology I listen to is Jimmy.

1:45.0

It's me.

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I'm pretty good at it.

1:48.0

Yes, thank you, Joe.

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