Plodcast Ep. 74 - Early Rain Church, John Owen, Anatrepo

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This week Douglas Wilson talks about The crackdown in China on various Christian churches. He then goes on to review “Overcoming Sin and Temptation,” a book by John Owen. Wrapping it up with a look at the New Testament word “Anatrepo.” Happy plodding! Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ihoo62cf5kspbbj5e52wyaes2p4?t=Plodcast iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/plodcast/id1257949421?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=148592&refid=stpr RSS Feed: http://canonpress.libsyn.com/rss Get the weekly episodes in your inbox: http://canonpress.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=7c049fc7f2904e30e1ac37ebf&id=db9614c891 Show notes: The crackdown in China on various Christian churches Early Rain Covenant church is Reformed Presbyterian We can pray for our brothers and sisters The Chinese governments is still hostile to Christianity Overcoming Sin and Temptation Book by John Owen with editors Justin Taylor and Kelly Kapic Very wholesome book John Owen is the opposite of a perfectionist (in the doctrinal sense that we can become perfectionists) One of the blessings that comes from reading this is that he hates sin intensely Harmartiology “Anatrepo” refers to the destructive effect of false teaching on wholesome Christian living 2 Tim. 2:18, Tit. 1:11

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. So welcome to the podcast. This is episode 74. That's hard to believe, but here we are.
0:25.0	Podcast episode 74.
0:27.0	Thanks for giving this modest little podcast your time,
0:32.0	and I appreciate it. modest little podcast, podcast your time.
0:32.6	Yeah, I appreciate it.
0:34.5	So the topic that I want to address this episode
0:38.8	is the crackdown that's currently going on in China, in mainland China with regard to
0:48.0	various Christian churches. I've read the news that certain mega churches, certain big churches, have been shut down.
0:56.6	But the most remarkable story coming out of China is what is happening to the Early Rain Covenant Church. Early
1:06.6	Rain is an interesting case because these folks are reformed
1:16.1	Presbyterian, Covenantal.
1:19.2	They have a classical Christian school there. They have a classical Christian college there and
1:27.0	it's the only Christian college in China. So and they have recently been rated, they've been, the Chinese
1:38.7	government is cracking down on Christians generally, on unregistered churches generally.
1:45.0	But early reign, covenant church is included in this.
1:50.1	The leaders have been arrested, the attempts to, well a number of the members have been arrested as well.
2:00.6	Told not to meet, they have continued to meet meeting in open air settings meeting in parks that sort of thing
2:08.0	and the
2:10.3	One of my colleagues here, Toby Sumter in Moscow,
2:15.0	basically pointed to something that the pastor there
2:21.0	said that this is what it looks like when the government
2:26.5	realizes that the people are no longer afraid of them. When the government realizes
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