TS&TT: Dr. Tom Nettles | 1960s in Mississippi, Resigning from Seminary & Baptist Life History

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today on The Sword & The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Jared Longshore sit down with fellow Founders Board Member Tom Nettles. Dr. Nettles shares about his life growing up in Mississippi in the 1960s, resigning from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and the history of Baptist life in America from his own prism of experience. 50% off SALE | By His Grace and For His Glory: https://press.founders.org/shop/by-his-grace-and-for-his-glory/ Founders Cinedoc: By What Standard? https://founders.org/cinedoc/ 2019 Southeast Founders Conference: https://founders.org/events/2019/12/2019-southeast-founders-conference-2/ Become a part of the F.A.M. | https://founders.org/give/ Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sword and the Trow, a podcast of Founders Ministries.
0:03.1	Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of Churches.
0:07.0	I'm Jared Longshore.
0:08.0	And I'm Tom Askell.
0:09.4	And this is...
0:10.8	I'm Tom Nettles.
0:12.2	Welcome, Tom.
0:13.4	It's great to have you here with us in the Founder Studio.
0:16.4	This is the first time I think we've had you that we've been able to get you to sit down with us for a
0:21.7	recording. I feel, I feel elevated by the company.
0:26.2	Well, you'll get over that quickly. Okay.
0:28.7	I think he meant the, you probably meant the people around this. Stronger companies back there.
0:33.6	Yeah, that's true. That's true. We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses here.
0:37.7	So Tom, thanks for coming. You're going to be preaching at Grace Baptist Church here in Cape
0:41.5	Coral tomorrow on the Lord's Day. We're delighted for your willingness to come and do that.
0:46.0	And we were talking earlier just about some of the history of your own life and the way that
0:52.9	God has intertwined our lives. Jared was your student
0:57.1	at Southern Seminary. When did you study under Tom, Jared, three years ago or something, four years
1:02.3	ago? Something like that. It's a little blurry, but 2000, I mean, I had you for both my master's
1:08.3	work and doctoral work. And finished your dissertation. Supp as my last student, but I still have a couple
1:15.0	of hangers-on after them.
1:16.2	I wanted that honor so bad.
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