Thank you for joining us for this conversation today on the Sword and the Trial. Today, Pastor Tom and I interview Pastor Josh Tinkum. He's an adjunct professor here at Founders Seminary. And we talk about general revelation, special revelation, theology and philosophy, the use of philosophy in theology. It's a really good, helpful conversation for me. I hope it is for you. Take a listen.

Welcome to The Sword and the Trial. The Sword and the Trial is a podcast of founders' ministries and founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of local churches.

I'm Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell.

And this episode is brought to you by the Miller's Grove Sub Company. Today we have in the studio

with us our friend Josh Tinkum. He is pastor of Covenant Community Church in Norc, Ohio. Not like Norc, New Jersey, Norke, Ohio. And then also he's an adjunct professor of theology at Founder Seminary. He started teaching last semester, teaching again this semester. Welcome to the podcast today. I appreciate it. Thank you guys for having me on. Yeah, Josh, thanks for being here. Thanks for participating with us at Founder Seminary.

We're so grateful to have you a part of the faculty.

And I'm excited about what's going on to the seminary.

Before we dive in too heavy on some subjects, how did you get interested in Founder Seminary?

And what made you decide that, yeah, you'd be willing to kind of throw in with us?

Our church has always been a participant of Founders Ministry.

Our church is actually located on the Founders Church website.

And why I'm saying that is because our church is a we planted 10 years ago. We are a fully subscribing

Second London Church. We are an associational church. The Second London governs our church. And so what

I'm trying to get to is our church loves the confession. Our church loves the doctrine that we

profess and confess. And so when you have a ministry, trying to put that out into, you could say, the public sphere,

yeah, it's something we want to partner with.

Now, with the seminary specifically, actually, our church sought it as a ministry for our church

for me to be a professor there. And what I mean is, you know, a lot of our churches,

especially in the confessionally reformed world and Baptist, if I could ask that, is they're going to be,

not small, but, you know, they're going to be congregations that are close-knit tight.

And missions a lot of times are going to take different shape.

In a way, it's a mission for us was, well, you know, pastor has a certain skill set that we believe that could be beneficial to other pastors to propagate the doctrines that we love, wherein those pastors could then go take that

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