Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast, part of the 1517 podcast network of shows.

My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Bruce Hillman and Adam Francisco,

as we get towards the end of our dogmatic series that we have been doing for the last several months.

This week's episode is on the doctrine of public ministry following what Bruce and I did last

week on the doctrine of the church. There's a lot of carryover here in sort of important places

where Bruce and I stopped so that we could make

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All right, guys, doctrine of public ministry.

We're going to have to probably distinguish some of the difference between what we talked

about, the doctrine of the church and how this important overlap following some of

the stuff from last week.

But the opening question is, instead of just ministry, this often has that adjective public.

And so maybe we should ask, what is public ministry?

Why is it important that we actually have it outlined that there is a public ministry of the church in our dogmatics?

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