What is the Church To Do?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This episode of The Mortification of Spin takes on a more serious tone as Todd and Carl offer a pastoral approach to the sensitive topic of spousal abuse. In tragic cases of abuse within the church, where does the dividing line between church discipline and civil law exist? Does abuse stand as justifiable, biblical grounds for divorce? During their thoughtful discussion, the hosts answer these questions and more, offer helpful book recommendations on this challenging topic, and (surprisingly) reveal what's right about feminism. Free resource from the Alliance of Confessing EvangelicalsGod's Design for Marriage and Sex by Richard Phillips Mentioned on What is the Church To Do?The Stain That Stays by Armstrong John Marriage: Sex in the Service of God by Christopher Ash Married for God: Making Your Marriage the Best it Can be by Christopher Ash

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mortification of Spin, the regular podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals,
0:23.5	proudly not mentioned by anybody of any significance in the American evangelical world at the moment.
0:31.3	The reasons for that I think are fairly obvious.
0:33.1	We are the only reformed investigative journalists who were prepared to blow the whistle on the sinister
0:40.3	connection between Steve Nichols and the Botox industry.
0:43.6	The only podcast where we were prepared to run with what was regarded as reformed Protestantism's
0:50.7	worst kept secret, and that was the dark background of Derek Thomas with the
0:55.2	British glam rock band Slade. And indeed, the only investigative journalists brave enough to venture
1:02.6	into a West Virginian biker bar in order to interview housewife theologian Amy Bird.
1:09.1	So welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Carl Truman,
1:14.8	I teach church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. And I'm here with my good friend
1:20.3	and newly minted Presbyterian pastor, Todd Pruitt. Welcome, Todd. Good to see you, Carl. It feels good to be newly minted as a
1:32.6	Presbyterian. I just received my John Calvin tattoo, and it looks quite good. Yeah, and the body
1:41.4	piercing is looking quite impressive as well, Todd. Absolutely. You will fit into the new PCA.
1:47.2	That's what I thought.
1:48.0	Like a hand into a glove.
1:50.0	Yeah, I thought, I see my role is to help remake the PCA.
1:55.4	Yeah.
1:55.6	You and John Payne, we think of it as the ordinary means of grace guys.
2:00.7	That's right.
2:01.0	Word, sacraments, and suntan as the ordinary means of grace guys. That's right. Word sacraments and suntan.
2:02.7	The ordinary means of church growth.
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