Well folks, here’s the first ever showdown between Moore and SMBC.  We know you’ve been waiting for it! Chris Ashton, a good bloke (yes, there are some!*) from SMBC comes to the Pilgrim’s Podcast studio and reps his college.  And he does a cracker job of it too!

From churches around Sydney, to the vibe of church planting, to reformed theology, and all the way to creeds – we have a great yarn about these things!

Chris’ blog is over at: chrisashton.com.au Check it out! Good guy.  Good site.  Good yarn.

*disclaimer: that was a joke.  We really love our brothers and sisters at SMBC!

Listen:

This is an absolute cracker of a Pilgrim’s Podcast!

We discussed Glenn’s theological training and time at Westminster Theological Seminary.  We heard about his training in good Reformed theology under John Frame, and also his appreciation for Cornelius Van Til and Vern Poythress.  We also heard all about exciting opportunities within the Anglican Church in Sydney to grow new churches within the parish system.  And we spent had a cracker of a chat about Infant Baptism (which Glenn prefers to call Covenantal Baptism!) and the Sacraments.

So much good stuff here, and we really enjoyed a great bit of banter with Bishop Glenn.  Hope this Podcast is as much of a blessing to you, as it was to us to be part of!

Update: Here is a link to something Glenn has published on the topic of Covenant and Baptism: download.

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Mark Thompson from Moore College discusses the location of the Trinity with respect to John Webster’s writings, on his blog here.

Tim Chester of Total Church fame discusses the “one-anothering” of New Testament ecclesiology which forms part of our church community on his blog here.

Here’s a taster of Mark Thompson’s post:

“… is it the doctrine of the Trinity which stands at the very centre? Is every other Christian doctrine ultimately an exposition of this doctrine? Or might we speak more accurately of the triune God at the centre? God is the ground of everything that exists. All truth is ultimately traceable to him. But do we put the doctrine under unreasonable strain by suggesting that it ‘comprehends within itself all further teaching about creatures, their nature and ends’?”

And a taster of Tim Chester’s post:

“All the New Testament writers refer often to what we are to do to or for ‘one another’ (or ‘each other’ – the Greek is the same). This concept of ‘one anothering’ is a central feature of New Testament ecclesiology, albeit one which receives little attention in contemporary academic discussions.”

They’re both good reads – check them out!