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Mortification of Spin

Wanted: Peoples’ Shepherd

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4879 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Spinners are quarantined in the underground bunker and take a break from all the pandemic talk to address a listener question: What should a church be looking for when searching for a new pastor, and how might they go about it? Of course, a candidate’s online presence can tell much about who he is and how he treats people. What else may be used as reliable indicators of character? What are some ways to assess the prospective pastor’s family life? Does he love and treat his wife and children well? Might the applicant's sermons reveal not only his theology, but also his character and the way he views others? Does he view himself as a shepherd or CEO? The team offers some valuable tips on gathering information about a prospective pastor.  Cruise to MortificationofSpin.org to read the blogs, and visit ReformedResources.org to check out what's available at the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals online store.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

0:25.4

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

0:30.5

Let's join this week's conversation. Welcome to Mordification of Spin.

0:45.3

My name's Carl Truman, professor at Grove City College in West of Pennsylvania,

0:48.8

and I'm here with my usual co-hosts, Todd Pruitt, pastor of PCA church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

0:55.8

Aren't I good?

0:56.6

I remembered it.

0:57.4

You remembered that it was PCA and in Virginia.

1:00.7

I did.

1:01.6

You're not embarrassed to be referred to still as a PCA pastor?

1:05.3

I'm still hanging on.

1:07.2

Excellent.

1:08.0

And Amy Bird, housewife theologian and resident of somewhere in Maryland,

1:12.7

I think. Mariland. Maryland. Maryland. That's such an awful, if I can see. Such an awful American

1:19.9

accent. Well, you seem to add syllables when those syllables exist. Oh, my goodness. My name,

1:26.1

my name is Carl.

1:33.0

But I actually, when Americans ask me what my name is now, I say Coral, C-R-A-L.

1:34.8

This is the only way they can understand.

1:38.9

There's an extra syllable in the way the Americans pronounce.

1:39.8

Interesting.

1:45.2

Anyway, we've run out of things to say after three or four or five, six, seven years of doing this. Probably seven, yeah.

1:46.2

So we are actually resorting to answering viewers' questions and giving this pretence that we actually care what people think.

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