Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss how Christians should think about the death penalty.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is the death penalty biblical?
• What is the Christian framework for being against the death penalty?
• Why do we have civil laws?
• Is the death penalty just? Is it a deterrent?
• How could you kill an image bearer by any means?
• How does the civil government wield the sword? How do we regulate the taking of human life for the punishment of a crime?
• What’s the difference between justice and mercy?
• Do we tend to overemphasize the therapeutic in this conversation?
• What is your view on this?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Genesis 9, Exodus 21, Romans 13:1-4
• Training the Church Ministry Cohort
• C. S. Lewis and the Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
• “The Politics of Jesus” by John Howder Yoder
• Knowing Faith Has Therapeutic Language Invaded The Church?

Follow Us:
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website

Support Training the Church and Become a Patron:

patreon.com/trainingthechurch

You can now receive your first seminary class for FREE from Midwestern Seminary after completing Lifeway’s Deep Discipleship curriculum, featuring JT, Jen and Kyle. Learn more at mbts.edu/deepdiscipleship.

To learn more about our sponsors please visit our sponsor page.

Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by Courtney Reissig to discuss how to trust the church again after hurt.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What was your goal in writing this book?
• What is your book about?
• How have you seen the Gospel of John help people process not abandoning the faith after hurt?
• What encouragement can you offer to people who are unsure whether they can trust the church?
• Are there people in your ministry coming from church hurt?
• Where did you experience restoration from looking at Jesus in your own journey?

Guest Bio:

Courtney Reissig is a writer and bible teacher living in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the proud mom of four sons, happy wife to Daniel, and author of The Accidental Feminist, Glory in the Ordinary, Teach Me to Feel and Someone to Believe In. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Gospel Coalition, and Christianity Today (among other publications). When she is not writing or wrangling kids, she enjoys running and a relaxing Friday night. Her family belongs to Immanuel Baptist Church. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram (@courtneyreissig).

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• John 20:3, Hebrews 13:8, John 15, Psalm 1, John 9, Ezekiel 34:2
• ”Someone to Believe In” by Courtney Reissig

Follow Us:
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website

Support Training the Church and Become a Patron:

patreon.com/trainingthechurch

You can now receive your first seminary class for FREE from Midwestern Seminary after completing Lifeway’s Deep Discipleship curriculum, featuring JT, Jen and Kyle. Learn more at mbts.edu/deepdiscipleship.

To learn more about our sponsors please visit our sponsor page.

Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss how Christians should think about burial, aging, and death.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• How does our culture view death?
• Where is death in the Bible?
• When you think of burial in the Bible, what comes to mind?
• What is the norm in Jewish society and culture?
• How should this influence how Christians think about burial?
• Does the mode of burial matter?
• What method of burial do we want for ourselves?
• For fun: If we were pagans, what funeral would we have?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Genesis 50:25, Genesis 35:19-20, John 11
• “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” by Atul Gawande

Follow Us:
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website

Support Training the Church and Become a Patron:

patreon.com/trainingthechurch

You can now receive your first seminary class for FREE from Midwestern Seminary after completing Lifeway’s Deep Discipleship curriculum, featuring JT, Jen and Kyle. Learn more at mbts.edu/deepdiscipleship.

To learn more about our sponsors please visit our sponsor page.

Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss the State of Theology survey, why it is so concerning, and what we can do next.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is the state of theology survey?
• What is an evangelical according to this survey?
• What is the Lifeway report?
• What is a common discipleship strategy used by churches?
• What is a roadblock to making disciples?
• What are some things that are concerning in the report?
• Why is it a problem that people don’t think the Holy Spirit is a person?
• How the difference between interpretation and orthodoxy?
• Why is this so concerning?
• What do we do?
• Do you have a definition of disciple?
• Why do scope and sequence matter?
• How does dissonance play a role in discipleship?
• Why do we believe so much in the Training the Church Ministry Cohort?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• 1 Corinthians 2, Genesis 3, Romans 5
• State of Theology Report
• Lifeway Pastors’ Views on Discipleship
• “Deep Discipleship” by JT English
• Deep Discipleship Curriculum
• Training the Church Ministry Cohort

Follow Us:
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website

Support Training the Church and Become a Patron:

patreon.com/trainingthechurch

You can now receive your first seminary class for FREE from Midwestern Seminary after completing Lifeway’s Deep Discipleship curriculum, featuring JT, Jen and Kyle. Learn more at mbts.edu/deepdiscipleship.

To learn more about our sponsors please visit our sponsor page.

Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what predestination and election mean.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Can you remember how you were introduced to these doctrines?
• What is reformed theology?
• What is predestination? What is election? Are they synonyms?
• Where do we find them in scripture?
• What have been faithful approaches to these doctrines?
• Who do you disagree with on this, but you respect the way they articulate their view?
• What is determinism?
• What is the point? Why should we care about this?

Helpful Definitions:

• Predestination: God has ordained specific things to happen.
• Election: God administers His saving benefits and/or judgment.
• Pelagius: Man is not stained by sin; humanity is neutral before God.
• Augustine: Humans are dead in their sin and saved by grace.
• Arminianism: Humans are dead in their sin and allowed to choose saving grace.
• Determinism: God is so other than, there is no meaningful place for human agency.
• Compatibilism: God directs our desires, and humans act in accordance with our desires.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Romans 9, Genesis 1-2, Genesis 12, Ephesians 1, Romans 5-6, Proverbs 16:9, Romans 8, John 6, Matthew 13, John 10
• Deep Discipleship Program
• Ligonier Ministries
• Renewing Your Mind
• Acts 29
• T4G
• “Let the Nations Be Glad!” by John Piper
• BFM 2000

Follow Us:
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website

Support Training the Church and Become a Patron:

patreon.com/trainingthechurch

You can now receive your first seminary class for FREE from Midwestern Seminary after completing Lifeway’s Deep Discipleship curriculum, featuring JT, Jen and Kyle. Learn more at mbts.edu/deepdiscipleship.

To learn more about our sponsors please visit our sponsor page.

Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley have a conversation about what happens to animals (and Jen’s pugs) when they die.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What happens to animals when they die?
• How are humans and animals different?
• How does any creaturely thing make it into heaven?
• Are animals in need of redemption?
• Does the fall impact animals?
• Do animals have a soul?
• What is a soul? Do only humans have souls?
• How do we give the right level of importance to things that have breath?
• Will any animals be brought into the new heaven and the new earth?

Helpful Definitions:

• Psychosomatic Unity: Humans are unions of body and soul.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Training the Church Ministry Cohort

Follow Us:
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website

Support Training the Church and Become a Patron:

patreon.com/trainingthechurch

You can now receive your first seminary class for FREE from Midwestern Seminary after completing Lifeway’s Deep Discipleship curriculum, featuring JT, Jen and Kyle. Learn more at mbts.edu/deepdiscipleship.

To learn more about our sponsors please visit our sponsor page.

Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Season 16 of the Knowing Faith podcast begins on January 15th! In this episode, Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley give you a preview of what is to come in Season 16.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What are we doing this season?
• What are some of the topics we will cover?
• How can I submit questions for you to cover?
• If you could put your cohost on the hotseat for any question, what would it be?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

• Apple Podcast Review
• Training the Church Patreon

Follow Us:
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website

Support Training the Church and Become a Patron:

patreon.com/trainingthechurch

You can now receive your first seminary class for FREE from Midwestern Seminary after completing Lifeway’s Deep Discipleship curriculum, featuring JT, Jen and Kyle. Learn more at mbts.edu/deepdiscipleship.

To learn more about our sponsors please visit our sponsor page.

Editing and support by The Good Podcast Co.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.