Kyle Worley is joined by Jason Duesing to answer the question, “What is the purpose of a confession of faith if we already have the Bible?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is the purpose of a confession of faith if we already have the Bible?
• What is a helpful way to read confessions of faith?
• In your view, what is the most significant Baptist confession?

Guest Bio:

Jason Duesing serves as the Provost, Senior Vice President for Academic Administration, and Professor of Historical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He came to MBTS after serving for more than a decade on the administrative leadership team and faculty at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Duesing earned his Ph.D. in Historical Theology and Baptist Studies from Southwestern Seminary in 2008. He also holds a M.Div. from Southeastern Seminary and a B.A. in Speech Communications from Texas A&M University in College Station. Duesing is married to Kalee, and together they have four children.

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley to discuss the Exodus event and how it’s impactful for understanding the rest of Scripture.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What do we learn about God in the Exodus event?
• How is Exodus a birth and a decreation narrative?
• What do we learn about deliverance and redemption from Exodus?
• How does Exodus create a paradigm for understanding salvation throughout the Bible?
• Why does God want people to have the law?
• As a Christian, must I obey the Ten Commandments? What is my relationship to the Ten Commandments?
• What role does the law play in our spiritual formation?
• How does what happens at Sinai connect with the 4 Ps?
• Why is this event worth giving this much attention to?
• What core doctrines do we learn about in Exodus?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Exodus 3:14, Genesis 1-2
• Knowing Faith Exodus Episodes
• “Drama of Scripture”  by Craig Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen
• “Remember and Rehearse” by JT English

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the covenants in the Bible and why it's important to understand them.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What happens in Genesis 1-11?
• What is a covenant?
• What are some covenants we find in the Bible?
• How do covenants form a structure for reading and interpreting the Bible’s story?
• What is involved and entailed in the covenant with Abraham?
• What are the core promises of God’s covenant with Abraham?
• How does the covenant with Abraham shape the rest of the story?
• In the covenant with Moses, what is entailed or unveiled?
• Why do people find that the story of the bible opens up for them as they come to understand the significance and structure of covenants?

Helpful Definitions:

• Covenant: Promise in which God obligates Himself to His people to act on their behalf.
• Pactum Salutis: Covenant in which God has said He is going to secure and save for Himself a people in Christ Jesus. (Exists before creation.)

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Genesis 1-11, 12, 15, Ephesians 1, Revelation 13, 2 Samuel 7, Jeremiah 31, Genesis 22
• TGC25
• “Words of Life” by Timothy Ward

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the themes, imagery, and encouragement found in Revelation 10-11.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is the Old Testament imagery found in 10:1?
• Why is the scroll sweet to the taste, but bitter to the tummy?
• What are the themes we have seen so far?
• What is going on with the measuring of the temple? What does it signify?
• How does a reader understand what is going on in Revelation 11:1-3?
• What is going on with the “two witnesses”?
• What happens to these witnesses, and why is it significant?
• In verse 11, why is it 3 and a half days?
• What is the seventh trumpet?
• How does Revelation 10-11 encourage us as Christ’s people?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Revelation 10-11, Exodus 15:22-25, Ezekiel 3:1-7, 33, 1 Corinthians 3, Hebrews, 1 Peter, Zachari 4, 1 Kings 17:1, Matthew 17, Revelation 16:18, Joshua 6:20
• “Revelation: Eternal King, Everlasting Kingdom” by Jen Wilkin

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley recorded live at the For The Church Conference at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with guests Jared Wilson and Patrick Schreiner to answer questions from the audience.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is the gospel political?
• Are doctrinal disagreements gospel disagreements?
• When sharing the gospel with people who don't have a religious background, what’s a good approach?
• How do you best share the gospel with cultural Christians?
• How can women remain faithful to scripture while serving in ministry in the church?
• How does the cultural climate influence churches in this conversation?
• How can I battle pride in ministry?
• Why should we become like Jesus today? Why is it good that we will ultimately be conformed to His glory?
• What dimension of the gospel do you find encouraging in this season of your life?

Guest Bios:

Jared C. Wilson serves as Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Author in Residence, and General Editor, For the Church. He is the author of a number of books, including but not limited to Gospel Wakefulness, The Prodigal Church, The Pastor’s Justification, and Supernatural Power for Everyday People. He also serves as an elder at Liberty Baptist Church. He and Becky have been married for twenty-three years, and they have two daughters: Macy and Grace.

Patrick Schreiner is the Director of the Residency PhD program, Associate Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Gene and Jo Downing Endowed Chair of Biblical Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including but not limited to; The Four Gospels: Jesus, the Hope of the World, The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading, a commentary on Acts, The Visual Word: An Illustrated Guide to the New Testament Books, and Political Gospel: Public Witness in a Politically Crazy World.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• For The Church Conference
• “Political Gospel” by Patrick Schreiner
• “Women and Ministry” Redeemer Presbyterian Church by Tim and Kathy Keller

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley recorded live at the For The Church Conference at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with guests Jared Wilson and Patrick Schreiner to discuss the gospel.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is the gospel story, doctrine, or practice?
• Is the whole story of the Bible the gospel?
• What is the difference between a doctrine and a story?
• Where do we start when we are reading gospel text?
• How do we feel about the language “practicing or performing” the gospel?
• Do we participate in the gospel?
• What is the nature of belief?
• Why are you still gospel-centered after all these years?
• What does it mean to be gospel-centered?
• Is it a bad thing to call people to moral rightness?
• What would a ministry look like if you were proclaiming “the gospel” but avoiding the law?
• Is the gospel political?

Guest Bios:

Jared C. Wilson serves as Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Author in Residence, and General Editor, For the Church. He is the author of a number of books, including but not limited to Gospel Wakefulness, The Prodigal Church, The Pastor’s Justification, and Supernatural Power for Everyday People. He also serves as an elder at Liberty Baptist Church. He and Becky have been married for twenty-three years, and they have two daughters: Macy and Grace.

Patrick Schreiner is the Director of the Residency PhD program, Associate Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Gene and Jo Downing Endowed Chair of Biblical Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including but not limited to; The Four Gospels: Jesus, the Hope of the World, The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading, a commentary on Acts, The Visual Word: An Illustrated Guide to the New Testament Books, and Political Gospel: Public Witness in a Politically Crazy World.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Matthew 28, 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Titus 2, Matthew 28:16-20, Romans 2:4, Galatians 2:14, Romans 16, Revelation 21:4, Hebrews 10:14
• For The Church Conference
• “Ten Words to Live By” by Jen Wilkin
• “Political Gospel” by Patrick Schreiner

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the doctrine of sin; what is it and what it means for us.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is a good definition of sin?
• What is the story of sin? What is happening in Genesis 3?
• What is Exile, and why is it significant?
• What is a sin of commission? What is a sin of omission?
• What does it mean to be Augustinian in our view of sin?
• Is sin individual, or has sin impacted the world at large?

Helpful Definitions:

• Hamartiology: Doctrine of Sin
• Sin: Rebellion against God.
  • Fractures our relationship with God, one another, the created order, and ourselves.
• Total Depravity: We have a sinful nature because of Adam and Eve.
• Exile: Lost access as humanity to the beatific presence with God.
  • The experience of pain and suffering that results from the knowledge that there is a home where one belongs, yet for the present one is unable to return there. 
• Sin of commission: A sin that we commit, an action.
• Sin of omission: What we have left undone.
• Augustinian:
  • Gen 1-2: Able to not sin.
  • Gen 3: Not able to not sin.
  • Post Christ's life: Able to not sin.
  • Future: Not able to sin.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Romans 5, Genesis 1-3, Romans 3
• “Remember and Rehearse: An Invitation to Participate in God's Story” by JT English
• “Formed for Fellowship: Becoming What You Behold” by Kyle Worley

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what the imagery, symbols, and numbers found in Revelation 8-9 mean and how this passage can encourage us.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Where are we in the book of Revelation when we come into the seven trumpets?
• How are numbers being used?
• What do we see and hear in this passage?
• Is there symmetry between the Fourth Trumpet and Fourth Seal?
• What should we not miss before we get to the fifth angel?
• What is significant about the eagle?
• Who is the “star that had fallen from heaven? (9:1)
• What is this judgment?
• How does this echo the story of Exodus?
• How does this passage encourage us?
• How am I supposed to interpret cataclysmic events in the world as it relates to these judgments?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Revelation 8-9, Exodus 7:14-11:10, Revelation 21-22, Jeremiah 23:15, Genesis 15, Luke 10:18
• “Revelation: Eternal King, Everlasting Kingdom” Jen Wilkin

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Kyle Worley is joined by Samuel Parkison to answer the questions, what is the beatific vision and why does it matter?

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is the beatific vision and why does it matter?
• What makes heaven, heaven?
• What does it mean to behold God? What are we beholding?

Helpful Definitions:

• Beatific Vision: The blessed hope of seeing God in heaven.

Guest Bio:

Samuel G. Parkison is associate professor of theological studies and director of the Abu Dhabi Extension Site at Gulf Theological Seminary in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Parkison earned his M.Div., Th.M., and Ph.D. at Midwestern Seminary, is a regular contributor to For the Church, and is an editor of Credo Magazine. He also serves as a pastor of teaching and liturgy at Emmaus Church. He is the author of Revelation and Response: The Why, How of Leading Corporate Worship Through Song and Thinking Christianly: Bringing Sundry Thoughts Captive to Christ, and To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Exodus 33:18, Psalm 27:4, 1 Corinthians 13, 1 John 3:2, Revelation 22:4, 2 Corinthians 4
• “To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice”  by Samuel Parkison

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