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Conversations That Matter

The American Churchman: Sin & Restoration in Pastors and Leaders

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Tom Rush joins the podcast to discuss the latest scandal involving Steve Lawson, as well as other similar circumstances. How should congregations navigate such incidents? Can a fallen pastor be restored? What does restoration look like?


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0:00.0

You're going to. Oh, Welcome, welcome welcome to the American, what was I, I was going to say American reformer. It's the American churchmen. Those two

0:35.9

organizations are very similar but they are different and the American churchmen actually

0:40.2

exists. It's brought to you by True Script and it's dedicated to inspiring

0:44.0

Christian men to embrace their divine calling. Exploring a range of topics today

0:48.2

we're going to be talking about some theology. We're going to be getting into some of the

0:52.3

attributes of God. Today our subject is the

0:54.4

incomprehensible of God. And then we're going to talk about pastoral qualifications. When does a pastor, when he does not meet those qualifications when it should he step down when can he be restored to ministry what does that ministry look like depending on the egregious way that those qualifications are violated.

1:15.0

And of course, always with me, Matthew Pearson, my co-host.

1:18.9

And today we have a special guest.

1:20.4

We have Tom Rush, Pastor Tom Rush, who is also one of the board members for Truth Script which

1:25.2

sponsors this podcast. Thank you for joining us Tom, I really appreciate it.

1:28.9

Hey glad to be here John, thank you for having me.

1:31.3

And for those who don't know Tom he is retired from

1:34.8

actually a few different branches of the military being a chaplain and he's been

1:39.8

preaching for I guess around 50 years now almost right 49 years almost yeah and the

1:46.3

bio on truth script says you have 12 grandchildren I don't know if that numbers

1:49.5

change but five children, 12 grandchildren.

1:52.8

Still the same, fortunately.

1:56.2

So anyway, welcome and thank you for joining us,

2:00.0

everyone who's coming into the live stream.

2:02.4

Just a reminder that Truth Script is funded and the

2:06.7

American Churchman Podcast is funded by your generous donations. So if you go to Truthscript

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