Pastors, Elders & Their Wives

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Your favorite comedian/theologians, Todd Pruitt and Carl Trueman, team up yet again - this time to answer some important questions about how the church should be run and who should be running it. We'll learn that faithful teaching, a willingness to contend for truth and godly maturity are all important characteristics of a good pastor or elder. But women listeners won't be surprised to learn what Todd and Carl eventually conclude...that the way an elder treats his wife may be the best indicator of his ability to lead well. Free resource from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals The Westminster Assembly on Marriage and Divorce a free MP3 by Richard Gamble.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mortification of Spin, the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:21.6	Thank you for joining us for a casual conversation about things that count.
0:26.4	I am your host, Carl Truman, a professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary
0:31.0	in Philadelphia, and I'm here with my co-host, Todd Pruitt, pastor of Church of the Savior in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
0:39.3	Remember that the mortification of spin
0:41.3	is to the podcasts of other
0:43.0	gospel alliances, the spaghetti
0:45.3	westerns, art of soap operas.
0:48.3	If you are one of the
0:49.3	bold and the beautiful, or one of the
0:51.2	young and the restless, you will
0:53.3	find nothing of interest here.
1:07.6	But if you are one of the bald, the bad or the ugly, welcome home.
1:12.2	Here is rest for your receding hairline and comfort for that face that only a mother could love.
1:18.9	Well, Todd, having given you such a good intro there on your general aesthetic appeal.
1:25.0	Yeah, I don't know exactly how to feel about that introduction.
1:30.2	Although I will say in the spaghetti western, the hero generally had a very rugged good look about him.
1:36.4	And neither, you and I are neither rugged nor good looking, so that is hard.
1:39.6	I wasn't thinking of us as the hero.
1:41.8	I was thinking, we're the guys who are carried off in those roughly
1:44.9	huned wooden boxes in the final scene. Right. The Lee Van Cleef character or somebody like that.
1:49.8	Sure. Yeah, I understand that. Well, one of the things I wanted to talk about today is you and I
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