What does humility mean for studying the Bible? Can only the educated understand scripture? Vince and Roseanne respond to audience comments from Vince’s prior episodes with Anabaptist Perspectives. How can we grow in our understanding of Scripture? Do we need to have an answer for every question? 

View prior episodes with Vince: 
Does Academia Cause Loss of Faith: https://youtu.be/0ZhVhWUBZjw
Why I’m Studying Hebrew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0PdBQiJv4

This is the 155th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought.

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Megachurches, Academia, and Christian Vitality

Are commentaries cheating? Marlin emphasizes first hand direct engagement with the text of scripture. If used carefully, commentaries can actually help this process. Marlin also discusses free study resources and biblical language tools. This conversation continues themes from Marlin’s essay “The Inside-Out Sandwich.”  

Read Marlin’s essay "The Inside-out Sandwich: An Approach to Studying and Teaching the Bible" | https://anabaptistperspectives.org/the-inside-out-sandwich

Listen to Marlin’s essay here: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/3ca30f21-3321-41f8-a98e-7ef6eee9ffd1

See detailed tips for Bible study from Frank Reed's article "Studying the Word of God" | https://anabaptistperspectives.org/studying-the-word-of-god

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The Inside-out Sandwich: The Bible and Commentaries

Kristi Mast highlights women, past and present, who have inspired her. As the conversation progresses, she highlights the power of reading scripture congregationally. Then she offers a brief review of egalitarian and complementarian ideologies in contemporary Christianity. Kristi encourages women to see themselves first as disciples, rather than any other identity. She calls all of us to keep coming back to the text of the New Testament as we navigate issues around the roles of men and women in the church.  

Kristi’s conversation with Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/engaging-women-with-the-bible-and-theology-off-script-with-kristi-mast/ 

Interpreting the Bible in the Anabaptist Tradition by Stuart Murray: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0968554334/  

Martyrdom of Weynken narrated: https://anabaptistperspectives.org/martyrdom-weynken  

Martyrdom of Weynken from Martyr’s Mirror: https://womenofchristianity.com/weynken-a-widow-daughter-of-claes-of-monickendam-burnt-to-death-in-the-hague-the-20th-november-a-d-1527/ 

This is the 157th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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The Feminine Cloud of Witnesses

We should learn from monks and nuns. Monastics were responsible for the revival of agriculture, in addition to schools, libraries, and hospitals. These works of service accompanied their focus on the interior life and recovering personal wholeness. Stephen reminds us of the origins of monasticism in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 7 and 1 Timothy 5:9-12), and highlights the possibility that those who served a celibate calling helped bring the rest of the church back closer to God’s original design for sexuality.

Monks, Nuns and the Church

Our founders, Reagan and Jaran, tell the story of Anabaptist Perspectives from their perspective. Why they started, humor and encouragement along the way, and what keeps them excited five years in. 

As they say in the episode, we are especially grateful for all of you who have sustained this ministry with your gifts. 

Recommended Resources:

Plough Publishing House: https://www.plough.com/  

Life Together Podcast: https://www.bruderhof.com/en/topics/life-together-podcast  

“A Change of Allegiance” on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL_zSQMeqnoUY-WvlP-Tm75uyIl4hpcoN  

“A Change of Allegiance” on DVDs at Scroll Publishing: https://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/more-Change-of-Allegiance-DVDs.html  

The first episodes we filmed: https://youtu.be/yzYEt2PkMTE and https://youtu.be/MFXkc6D_yKo   

Rachel Stella’s article about Anabaptist Perspectives on Mennonite World Review: https://anabaptistworld.org/podcasters-fill-a-void-on-conservative-anabaptism/  

Sound Faith: https://www.youtube.com/c/SoundFaithChannel  

Essays for King Jesus: https://anabaptistperspectives.org/essays  

Our partner program on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anabaptistperspectives  

This is the 159th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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Why We Started Anabaptist Perspectives and What We’ve Learned

“How does one plant churches, teaching people to obey clear commands of Scripture that go in the opposite direction of many accepted norms of prevailing culture?” Allen Roth doesn’t stop with asking the difficult questions, but pushes us to be confident in scripture, humble in our understanding, and devoted to knowing scripture. “The Holy Spirit can’t bring to our memory scriptures we don’t know. 

This episode develops themes from Allen’s essay “Planting an Anabaptist Church in a City” which you can read here or listen to here.

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The Clarity of Scripture

The church planter is like a rubber tire between the bumpers of two vehicles.  Allen Roth describes the challenge of operating with integrity and with respect for both the sending culture and receptor culture while engaged in cross-cultural evangelism. 

Allen describes what he sees as Anabaptist core values, noting how we can easily be blind to our own spiritual heritage and to how we are shaped by our own culture. He also points us to key passages for cross cultural ministry such as Acts 3, Acts 10, Acts 15, Acts 20, and Romans 14 and 15. 

This interview is part of our series with Allen on Scripture, Culture, and Church Planting. https://anabaptistperspectives.org/series/scripture-culture-and-church-planting

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Negotiating with One's Own Culture

Why do some church plants fail? How can an older church help start a new church? Allen Roth speaks from experience and observation. Church planting calls for much prayer, clear vision, and a whole lot of practical steps and hard work. 

Suggested Resources 

Ten Most Common Mistakes Made by Church Starts by Griffith and Easum https://amzn.to/3Qv0X1G {affiliate link} 

Global Church Planting by Ott and Wilson — https://amzn.to/3Hvtlww [affiliate link]

Discovering Church Planting by J.D. Payne — https://amzn.to/3HwIJZw [affiliate link]

Planting Churches that Reproduce by Joel Comiskey — https://amzn.to/3Hw8PvM [affiliate link]

Places Allen periodically teaches on Church Planting 

Faith Builders — https://fbep.org/ 

IGO — https://www.igoasia.org/ 

Church Planters Forum — https://churchplantersforum.org/  

This interview is part of our series with Allen on Scripture, Culture, and Church Planting. https://anabaptistperspectives.org/series/scripture-culture-and-church-planting 

This is the 162nd episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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Gaining and Sustaining a Vision for Church Planting

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