On Eastern Orthodoxy Part 1 (Ep. 326)

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jonathan, Mark and Mark Feather talk to Joshua Schooping, a former Eastern Orthodox priest, on the reasons he had to leave that church.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jonathan Lehman.
0:05.7	This is Mark Never.
0:06.6	Welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:08.7	Nine Marks exist to help pastors build healthy churches.
0:11.1	Learn more at nine marks.org.
0:14.1	For the glory of God.
0:15.9	If you're interested in giving to the ministry for the glory of God. Go to 9marks.org forward slash talk.
0:22.6	Mark Feathers seems to be with us.
0:24.1	He is.
0:25.0	Mark, thanks for joining us.
0:26.3	Happy to.
0:27.0	And we're not even talking about the Trinity.
0:29.5	I don't think he was here when we did that.
0:31.1	He wasn't.
0:32.3	Great conversations.
0:33.4	You should go back and listen to him.
0:34.5	And anybody listening should go back and listen to him.
0:37.2	You are kind of a one of the theological experts on the CHPC elder boards.
0:46.9	Like you're one of the guys they go to and they have theological questions.
0:50.0	Oh, man.
0:51.0	I think broadly true, but I put it in humbler terms, I hope. Yeah. I get tasked with thinking about theological issues. Yeah. And one of the issues that you were tasked with recently was Eastern Orthodoxy. Yeah. So we had a case of someone wanting to join in Eastern Orthodox Church. We're just trying to think through, does this church preach the same gospel that we do? And that was a really kind of unknown waters for us. And so did a lot of searching on that. I remember being at CHBC years ago when we dealt with it once, but it feels like this is an issue that's coming up more and more. And I feel like I'm talking to pastors more and more. Who like, oh, what do we do? Because it's growing in some level.
1:27.7	I don't know how much, if it's just anecdotal or what, some level of popularity among young
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