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What's the point of having elders in the church?

How do they function?

Carl and Todd discuss the important and perennial topic

of biblical elder leadership in this episode of Mortification of Spin. After the podcast, listen for

details on how you can receive a free MP3 download. You are listening to The Mortification of Spin,

the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

And I am one half of your hosting team, Todd Pruitt.

I'm the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

And I'm joined as always by the other half of this team, Dr. Carl Truman,

pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Ambler, Pennsylvania,

and Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary. Carl, good morning. It's good to see you.

It's great to be here, Todd. I should probably say we're in a slightly different location today.

We're in a top secret bunker quite close to the CIA headquarters, I think, because I was

driving in.

That's true.

We also have a live audience.

Half of our mass listening public are actually present in the studio out today.

Mrs. Kelly Clifford, the delightful wife of Pastor Dan Clifford of an OPC church just outside

Washington.

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