”Phasing” Back to Church

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As many states' governments are talking about a “phased” reopening from the COVID-19 lockdown, our quarantined trio –bound in three different states—is asking some important questions concerning going back to church. When might Christians be able to congregate in person? How will we “do church” as social distancing concerns remain? And, what might we discover when we finally gather? The crew considers the ethical dilemma of obeying governing authorities in accordance with the dictates of Romans 13 when—in some cases—such civil obedience might lead to Scriptural disobedience. How might the job of shepherding the flock change for church leaders in these days of new spiritual pathologies and—potentially—difficult financial struggles. Can we get back to normal now? Then again, what is “normal?” Listen to the end and enjoy the encouraging words of God’s promise to his people. And hear why our Englishman Carl, who has always believed that hugging should be banned, is "living the dream!" Register for the opportunity to win a copy of the wonderful resource, Living in God’s Two Kingdoms by David VanDrunen. The books are a gift from our friends at Crossway.

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is sponsored by the new Zondervin Comfort Print, NASB 95 Bible.
0:05.9	Keep listening to learn about the new exegetical preaching blog. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd
0:32.8	Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:40.1	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:52.9	Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:55.2	I am Amy Bird.
0:57.0	I'm here socially distancing podcast edition again with my two co-host, Todd Pruitt,
1:04.9	pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia,
1:09.7	and Carl Truman, professor of, is it biblical
1:12.9	studies, Carl?
1:14.1	Biblical and religious studies.
1:15.9	At Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
1:19.4	And as we're social distancing and our new normal on Sunday morning is for me as a layperson to gather downstairs in our basement where our
1:31.5	smart TV is and watch a live streaming service from my church through YouTube.
1:40.4	And we have all these new normals.
1:43.7	I think we've had five Sundays now of this during this time of the recording.
1:49.1	And we're sitting here talking about, you know,
1:52.3	one sort of conversation about returning to church,
1:56.0	which is something I never thought that I would say.
1:59.2	We are in strange times for sure with this coronavirus,
2:03.5	but we have a lot of questions about that. When are we going to be able to return to church?
2:11.0	How are we going to do that when we do? And what might we discover as we get to commune together again?
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