What Is (and Isn't) the Authority of the Church?
White Horse Inn
Sola Media
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What comes to mind when you hear the phrase spiritual formation? |
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| 0:11.0 | Today, many popular approaches to spiritual formation simply drift away from Scripture. |
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| 0:47.9 | And so during this time, he wasn't allowed to take the supper. |
| 0:51.5 | But then he and I were right by each other the week that the elders said |
| 0:56.0 | he could take to supper again. And we just wept because him being included in, you know, |
| 1:02.2 | this declaration of yes, he believed in the dead of the broken body shed blood of Christ. |
| 1:08.1 | His exclusion really put a fine point on the fact that it's |
| 1:12.0 | even for that that Christ died. I love this language of discipleship over discipline because |
| 1:18.8 | Walter, what's going on there, and I think this is fantastic, you pastors have a big job |
| 1:26.1 | when it comes to the Lord's Supper. |
| 1:27.9 | You're not just up there hawk and wares on Sunday morning. |
| 1:31.9 | You are serving the people of God, which means you are serving the people of God throughout the week, making sure they are prepared to come to the altar. |
| 1:40.5 | I mean, you can't be in everyone's house every day, but you do have a responsibility to know what's going on in the lives of your people such that if they are taking the supper |
| 1:49.1 | to their judgment, you need to be able to address that so that they can be forgiven and back |
| 1:53.7 | into a situation like you're talking about, Walter. There's a lot of pastoral negligence, |
| 1:59.9 | I fear. Yep. And I'm looking in the mirror on this one. I'm not, I'm not pointing fingers, but there's a lot of pastoral negligence, I fear. And I'm looking in the mirror on this one. |
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