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Mortification of Spin

Throwing in Your Lot

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4853 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The nauseating activity of church shopping should not be confused with the often necessary need to find a new church. When there are several Gospel preaching churches to choose from, God has given us the ability to think critically to help us discern the right church to attend. Don’t think, what can the church do for me, but rather, what can you do for the church. And, make sure you listen to find out how Carl ended up in the OPC.The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer everyone a free MP3 download entitled "Marks of a Healthy Church" by Mark Dever. Download for free now.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

0:25.5

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

0:30.6

Let's join this week's conversation.

0:32.8

Thank you. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin, bully pulpit.

0:47.1

Today we're going to revisit a topic that we looked at a little while ago when we talked about the the nauseating phrase church shopping

0:56.1

and how that really spoke of a consumerist and rather inappropriate mentality.

1:03.8

But we got a little bit of foot pushback, a little bit helpful pushback on that podcast.

1:07.9

And we want to revisit it because we didn't want to give the impression that it isn't

1:12.8

worth using your critical faculties when you visit a new area.

1:17.6

And there may be three or four gospel preaching churches in the area.

1:23.0

And you may have to decide which one you're going to throw your lot in with and be committed to

1:29.1

and that perhaps are ways and means of judging what would be the best fit for you in terms of the

1:38.1

way you can serve and the way you can be served by the local congregation that don't speak

1:44.1

of a consumerist mentality.

1:45.4

They simply speak of a desire to make sure that you're in the church

1:50.0

where you can best be of service and best be served.

1:54.9

I think the question is, how do we evaluate those things?

1:57.5

In any community, you're going to have most communities.

1:59.7

You have multiple churches, even very small communities.

2:01.9

You're going to have multiple churches.

2:03.5

And so you do have to make some decisions.

2:05.7

Yeah.

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