Punishment is an easily avoidable topic for modern Christians. We tend to leave it for the “experts” beyond the Church. But what if the increasing injustice in criminal prosecution and punishment in wider society infiltrates our thinking as Christians? Does our squeamishness over things like the death penalty mean we become squeamish about the Bible too? What does it mean, for example, that the God of grace is also a God of justice who punishes evildoing? If we see the death penalty as always “barbaric”, what does that do to our understanding of Christ’s penal substitution at the Cross? What Biblical wisdom is there for those seeking greater justice in society when penalties have been too harshly (or too leniently) applied?

In this packed episode of Pod of the Gaps, Andy and Aaron dive into this complex topic with their usual mix of wit and wisdom, banter and the Bible.

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Episode 80 - Is Punishment Just?

In this first pilot episode, Aaron, Andy, and Michael explore one of the big questions raised by the COVID lockdown — what *is* church? Is it the kind of thing that can happen online, or is there an essential "in person" element? And what have been the challenges (and opportunities) for the Church in the pandemic?

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Episode 1 — Is Online Church Really Church?

In this second episode, Aaron, Andy, and Michael explore another massive  question raised by the COVID lockdown — how do the Church and State relate? Can the State tell the Church what to do? Is Romans 13 the sum total of what the Bible has to say about how Christians should relate to their government? How do we know when the State has crossed a line and the Church should say "this far and no further?"

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Episode 2 - Can the Church Resist the State?

In this third episode we discuss the relationship between church and culture. How can we avoid the two opposite pitfalls of simply being shaped by the culture around us or, on the other hand, ignoring it all together? How can the Church be truth and light in our culture and offer a unique and distinct voice into some of today’s culture wars? 

Aaron, Andy, and Michael dig into these questions with the usual mix of theology, apologetics, banter, and bad jokes.

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Episode 3 - Has the Church Sold Out to the Culture?

An occasional podcast featuring Aaron Edwards and Andy Bannister. Each episode sees the two friends take a contemporary issue in culture and explore it from a Christian perspective.

Featuring banter, philosophy, culture, theology, bad jokes, apologetics, and more — the podcast aims to help Christians think wisely about the challenges of living in the 21st century.

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Episode 80 - Is Punishment Just?

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