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And now live from College Station, it's Tom Ascle and Jared Longshore on The Sword and the Trowl.

Welcome to The Sword and the Trowel, a podcast of Founders Ministries.

Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of churches. I'm Jared

Longshore. And I'm Tom Askell. Tom, we've done a couple of these now.

Three. But this one's different. It's much different. What's so different about it?

This one has a higher quality to it to what makes this one have such a

greater quality than the others because I am in Texas and you're in Florida to

at the freest age of the Union you knew I was gonna get it in there. That's lovely.

What are we going to talk about today?

Oh, well, I think we are on schedule to talk about Article 3 in the social justice and the gospel statement.

I think we're also scheduled to talk about the fourth of the Ten Commandments, and then we better figure out a book to talk about.

All right. I've already got the book. Let's talk about justice in this first segment. Article 3 of the statement of the statement of social justice in the gospel. I'm going to read the affirmation. Is that okay?

Sounds great. We affirm that since he is holy,

righteous, and just, God requires those who bear his image to live justly in the world.

This includes showing appropriate respect to every person and giving to each one what he or she is due.

We affirm that societies must establish laws to correct injustices

that have been imposed through cultural prejudice.

Yeah, well, that seems to me pretty straightforward.

And what this summary of much of what the Bible teaches does

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