Toxic Church Cultures and How to Fix Them (with Scot McKnight)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In his new book, written with his daughter, NT scholar Scot McKnight takes on the subject of toxic church cultures-how to diagnose them and how to fix them. Their book, A Church Called Tov, outlines how to create and maintain church cultures characterized by goodness (tov) and organizational health. Join Scott and Sean as they unpack this important area for churchgoers, pastors and church leaders. Read a transcript of this episode at: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2022/to...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Think Bibbically. Conversations on Faith and Culture.
0:05.1	Podcast from Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.
0:08.6	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:12.8	And I'm your co-host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics.
0:16.2	We're here today with a person we have not had on before, who I'm not quite sure why we haven't,
0:21.6	but Dr. Scoping Knight,, Professor Skoping Knight, is a well-known
0:25.8	New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, theologian, widely written
0:30.4	author and has a terrific new book out that we want to feature that addresses
0:37.0	the whole issue of power and how it's exercised in the church, things like toxic church cultures, how to fix them.
0:45.7	The book has a very interesting title to it.
0:48.5	It's called A Church Called Tove, forming a goodness culture that resists abuses of power and promotes healing.
0:55.6	So Scott, welcome. It's great to have you on with us and a terrific book that we're
1:00.4	looking forward to getting into with you.
1:05.3	Well, thank you very much for having me on and I want to say hi to two of your colleagues,
1:08.9	Matt Williams and John Lundy, two of my students.
1:11.9	Very good.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:13.8	Two guys still doing a great job here.
1:16.8	Yeah, they're good people.
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:18.6	Now Scott, you are known, as far as I can tell,
1:21.6	mostly as just a first-rate New Testament scholar, and you've
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