Touch Not the Lord’s Anointed

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The professor, the megachurch pastor, and the housewife theologian (AKA professional potato peeler) gather for a casual chat about a topic that it keeps on giving. Diverse scandals of abuse involving prominent Christian leaders have been occurring quite regularly, a number of which have come from the “Young, Restless, and Reformed” movement, and from the promoters of the “celebrity culture.” How is an abusive leadership born, and how is such behavior nourished? What might be some red flags that a pastor is stepping over boundaries and abusing his congregants? Accountability seems to be the antidote for this issue, but is it always possible? Tune in for a reflection on the potentially devastating effects of ministers' egos left unchecked.

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is brought to you by the 2020 Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology.
0:05.5	Register now at alliancenet.org. Stay tuned after the podcast for more about what may prove to be our most popular conference ever. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:37.9	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:43.0	Let's join this week's conversation.
1:02.4	Greetings and welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.
1:11.7	My name's Carl Truman. I'm a professor at Grove City College, and I'm here with my usual co-hosts and collaborators, Amy Bird, the housewife theologian.
1:14.4	Could you add professional potato peeler?
1:20.8	Professional potato peeler, radical feminist, destroyer of Western civilization.
1:26.6	And Todd Pruitt, pastor of,
1:30.3	Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian. I'm not going to help you.
1:31.2	In Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:32.8	He's some coffee, Carl.
1:34.5	And ministering the Presbyterian Church in America.
1:37.8	In America.
1:38.8	So it's great to be with you all today.
1:41.3	And our topic today is a pretty timely one. Almost every week now,
1:45.5	well, I won't say almost every week, but with disturbing regularity, the great leaders of
1:51.8	yesterday's young restless and reformed movement seem to be hitting problems. We had Josh Harris
2:00.0	over the summer, and more recently the Axe 29 network has been
2:05.5	once again engulfed in controversy over once again abusive leadership relative this time
2:14.6	to an English expat, one of my fellow countrymen, Steve Timitz,
2:19.0	helping to head up the Axe 29 Network. And we don't want to spend our time today,
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