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This is Theology Applied.

Okay, welcome.

This is Pastor Joel with Right Response Ministries.

We've got another episode of Theology Applied today.

As a special guest, I have Toby Sumter.

He is one of the pastors at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. He's also one of the hosts for a podcast called Cross Politics. And today,

the topic that we're going to be addressing is Christian polemics, Christian polemics, not politics,

but polemics. And we're going to be

doing our best, by God's grace, to debunk the absurdity, the fallacy of the 11th commandment,

Christian niceness. And so I want to go ahead and just dive right in. So the first thing that we'll do

is just give you a moment, Toby, to just tell our listeners a little bit about yourself. Who are you? Who is Toby something?

Well, that's a long and sort of tale, but the short version is I am a pastor here. As you mentioned,

I've been in the ministry for about, I think, coming up on 15 years, I am married, have four children, and we're heavily involved with a classical Christian school here in Moscow called Logos School.

And like you said, I'm also heavily involved with the cross-politic

podcast and television show. Yeah, and that's a daily event now. It used to be once a week. And now

I keep looking at that and I think about your family life and just your pastoral work. And then I,

you know, the daily brief from, know you and Gabe and chalk knocks seem to

split that rotation but still I'm like Toby's doing at least three or four things a week with cross

politics so that's you're gonna have to you're gonna have to press on Gabe and Knox to get some

compensation or something well they're they it's the least I can do those two two guys have been pulling really hard on this for a long time.

And they're, because they're, you know, I'm, I'm grateful to be supported by the church. And they're

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