Doctrinal Faithfulness with Steve Bussey

Should we be cautious with Orange?, removing Blood & Fire, lessons from the UMC, and articulating a canon; these are some of the topics I cover with Steve Bussey in an eighty-minute podcast entitled Doctrinal Faithfulness.

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Andy Miller III: Alright, we are now into place where we're finally there i'm going to welcome in my guest on voice Steve busey this been a long time coming Steve glad to have you on the podcast.

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Steve Bussey: Well, go world it's good to be here.

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Andy Miller III: Absolutely now here's the danger, this is seriously, we are seriously in danger of a five hour podcast.

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Exactly.

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Andy Miller III: So there have been people and then probably the number one requested guests that i've had is for you Steve to come along and we've been friends for a while and we kind of like.

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Andy Miller III: share a lot of similar perspectives and I have some good, even when we disagree, we have some good discussion so i've always appreciated you but Steve I would love to just hear so sometimes people my audience don't know who you are.

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Andy Miller III: So I just love for you to give a few minutes about yourself.

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Steve Bussey: yeah well, I mean, I think the first thing is i'm a child of God, you know i've been saved by the blood of Jesus, you know I being set apart and made holy by the fire of the Holy Spirit, that is, that is, who I am.

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Steve Bussey: But on a more practical temporal level, I was born in Canada.

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Steve Bussey: grew up the the son of Salvation Army officers I lived in Canada, but my parents were also missionaries in Zimbabwe in South Africa.

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Steve Bussey: When I was in South Africa and met when I was 14 years old, a young woman named Sharon talkin vt eventually became my wife, we got married, though in 1996 and we have two amazing kids, both of whom are aspirin university grads.

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Steve Bussey: There you go yeah and we have been we served in South Africa for three years as divisional you secretaries, which is overseeing youth work for the Salvation Army in the western Cape division and then along with that over.

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Steve Bussey: pastor as you would say four cores at the same time, then God brought us to the United States and we've been serving here since 1999 so for the past 23 years or so, actually 23 years old this month.

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Andy Miller III: Okay, and.

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Steve Bussey: we're serving as mission leadership specials for a period of time then from like 2001 to 2012 we were involved in training, youth workers and in 2006 to go over that.

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Steve Bussey: are known as realtors school for your training in 2012 we started salvation factory, which was the first innovation department, the Salvation Army worldwide.

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Steve Bussey: And did a lot of exciting sort of outreach is actually matt Friedman, who teaches that Wesley biblical seminary came and was part of a major outreach which we didn't order to beach.

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Steve Bussey: Where we're sharing the Gospel with like thousands of people in the most biblically illiterate and Irish part of the United States.

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Steve Bussey: But then in 2020 we morphed into a new role, which was the strategic mission department that works under our Chief Secretary in the United States Eastern territory where we're looking at organizational strategy, innovation and really sort of issues of alignment as well.

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Steve Bussey: So that's a little bit about me.

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Steve Bussey: But yeah study.

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Andy Miller III: Quick summary.

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Andy Miller III: yeah that's not not easy to do, and you did a good job.

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Andy Miller III: For a lot of things and some of you who you can already hear and Steve voices passion and love the way God used him and somebody who is.

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Andy Miller III: done research to look into the history of of you know, in the wesleyan Methodist world, but particularly in the Salvation Army and a lot of things that Steve and I are going to talk about might be related to our particular denomination.

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Andy Miller III: But as I as his podcast has grown what's been interesting me Steve is that other folks in the western tradition have reached out to me and saying well whenever we talk about the Salvation Army.

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Andy Miller III: It sounds very similar what i'm experiencing the nazarene church or the wesleyan church and it's maybe not exactly the same, but there are parallels and I think it's happening in many.

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Andy Miller III: on many fronts, and this is something that's consistent that we're feeling so before we get to some of the thing in Ethiopia, you want to jump in there, go ahead.

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Steve Bussey: say something about that as well, like when I think about this well the Wesley and holiness movement and brothers, sisters and methodism and you know NASA Rien etc, etc.

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Steve Bussey: And you look at the history of evangelicalism in many ways the crisis which it's in some of the extremities you know of whether that's fundamentalism or month modernism or liberalism that had been sort of at the forefront of the 20th century.

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Steve Bussey: really have been dominated by fonts that are not necessarily fully reflective of a Western horns, but I think that, in many ways we're in a period, right now, where the Western influence movement is going to play critical role.

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Steve Bussey: In I searched in America and globally as well, so I think our conversation, together with with in the broader context, I think is very relevant.

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Andy Miller III: Right, and I think this is the place for this is why seminaries like that Wesley biblical seminary thrive and we have set doubled in size in four years.

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Andy Miller III: So, and what is that, like we're serving this pan Wesley and movement, and this is why organizations like seedbed are starting to gain traction is because.

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Andy Miller III: These these movements are like sticking to doctrinal convictions, at the same time, not just restricted to one particular denomination so there's a lot.

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Andy Miller III: That we can learn together and i'm also often cautious to even use the word holiness movement sometimes i've heard people say the Salvation Army is a holiness movement.

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Andy Miller III: And that's true, in a sense, but generally like the determines holiness movement refers to historical reality.

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Andy Miller III: And we are part of the holiness tradition, and so, because there's a way that the holiness movement, forgive me, has not been moving very much.

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Andy Miller III: Like right, so this is this a problem but we're but this tradition, this theological tradition, this mission attrition.

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Andy Miller III: is something that is position for growth and is growing in many sectors, but we might just think like weird the inheritors of a legacy that comes from john and Charles Wesley and that's been passed down in and through us that also made its way through the booths and the Salvation Army.

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Steve Bussey: I think that's a great clarification you know because I think that's sometimes hubris if we use a term like movement it sort of says Oh well, everything's fine when, in fact, no, we have got to do some serious calibration here.

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Steve Bussey: Yes, you're going to be true to our holiness tradition.

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Andy Miller III: that's right now it's interesting as we talked about this we're going to be we're gonna be covering some curriculum things that we've seen in our movement, I know that that's also been the case and other.

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Andy Miller III: Denominations have used a similar curriculum i'm just flat out say to orange curriculum something we'll talk about it further we're not there yet you're gonna have to wait folks.

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Andy Miller III: Then the other thing is we're going to talk about polity we're going to talk about like how we even define what is a traditional theology how we arrive at a cannon for a.

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Andy Miller III: Specific theological tradition, but before we get that like it'd be really easy for people to hear me and you talk and if we're critical.

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Andy Miller III: of a few areas that they missed the fact that that's not the focus of our life and ministry like why Why would we be critical in part is because we're for.

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Andy Miller III: Something broader we're for something I would say even more beautiful and it's related to how truth exists and world so Steve what is it what is it that you're for.

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Steve Bussey: yeah I mean, I think that the Salvation Army in our beginning as well, we had a cornerstone in which, which was put on the building of every Salvation Army, which sends this building exists for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

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Andy Miller III: amen.

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Steve Bussey: amen I mean like drop the MIC That summarizes it right.

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Steve Bussey: And when we read scripture and we read you know our creation mandate.

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Steve Bussey: You know, and you read the great commandment to love God and to you know with all our heart mind soul strength love our neighbor as ourselves, you know when you read the great Commission to go into the world and to make disciples.

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Steve Bussey: I mean that is a purpose that that that we let you know that is critical, you know that that is absolutely fulfilling it's the greatest life that we could never live.

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Steve Bussey: And so the question of how do I live my life fully aligned to that, I mean that we've all been created in the image of God that we've all been created for a purpose.

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Steve Bussey: And discovering what that purpose is and living up to that as individuals, but along with that recognizing the fact that we are part of a community of believers as well.

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Steve Bussey: And and Catherine within our first chapter of aggressive Christianity, she talks about like how that great Commission that we have been given.

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Steve Bussey: You know, why is it that we're not seeing this fulfilled it more.

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Steve Bussey: In each generation, and we have to ask ourselves why.

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Steve Bussey: You know why is this not being realized, and how can we do it better, what do we need to do to stay absolutely true to that Commission that Jesus has given to us and and and to and to live in a deep relationship with him.

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Steve Bussey: And so to me, that is something that really drives you know everything about who I am who Sharon is you know and and what we do with our life, you know.

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Steve Bussey: So I would say, you know, for me the things which I am deeply passionate about which I believe that we would find resonance with both in the Salvation Army and in the broader holiness tradition is that is that we share an identity in Christ.

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Andy Miller III: Right.

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Steve Bussey: yeah we are called to be saints to experience the gift of full salvation to spread holiness throughout the world right.

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Steve Bussey: um and then with that that purpose to find the boat best manager to method to be able to accomplish that I think I think that's the goal can can I can I give a fun illustration of what this is, I would say that if the Gospel it's like even though i've come up with brands right.

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Steve Bussey: But Catherine booth in the inner in our third chapter she says the Gospel is is is like pure water and and again.

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Steve Bussey: You know there's nothing better than water it's a source of life and she says, we need to keep the blessing Gospel Hall, but when once we keep the bus Gospel all she says we gotta deliver it in the best COMP.

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Steve Bussey: rating that that will connect with people so that Cup.

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Steve Bussey: can change over time, you can find all sorts of different types of cups.

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Steve Bussey: That old Gospel right now, these are all Salvation Army cups right, but if you're from a nazarene church, whatever else it is you know that can be key right now that water gets poured into whatever one of those cups are right, but if we get to a point where there's no water.

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Andy Miller III: There you go.

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Steve Bussey: we're in.

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Andy Miller III: trouble me tell the audio people watch this happen okay.

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Andy Miller III: magic trick.

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Steve Bussey: magic trick basically the water is no longer there in the Cup.

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Steve Bussey: Right now.

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Steve Bussey: And so, like again if you read those first three chapters of calculus he's talking about, you know that we need to find the best way to accomplish this.

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Steve Bussey: In our second chapter called adaptation measures she needs she says, we need to adapt their message to the site times and circumstances in which we live.

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Steve Bussey: But in the third chapter she says the Gospel needs to remain pure and we'll have to keep it hold on when she argued she actually debated the Bishop Carlisle the Anglican bishop.

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Steve Bussey: In 1880 This is where she said, we must keep the blessing Gospel Hall, but we must deliver it in the best Cup, in other words we innovate, the Cup.

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Steve Bussey: But never ever ever innovate, the gospel.

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Steve Bussey: The message, and I think that we're in a crisis in which that basic very simple message we've lost.

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Steve Bussey: And so to me.

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Steve Bussey: That is something which I stand for, how do we stay absolutely true to our identity and purpose and yet find the best methodology to be able to accomplish that.

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Andy Miller III: Beautiful yeah it is similar ideas like a form and function or mission and model, I think, like those those are ways to talk about the same thing, like the cup is the way that we hold this way we present it, but the purity of the mission is what needs to be held.

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Andy Miller III: yeah yeah.

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Steve Bussey: And I mean if you look at my we chat a little bit yesterday about this that the emergent Church, which came out of sort of gen X and the whole discussion about the dirty in the 1990s.

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Steve Bussey: They introduced you know the the French postmodern philosophers Jacques derrida who.

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Steve Bussey: introduced the concept of deconstruction right and they began to apply deconstruction to the church and and several of those who are part of the emerging church movement and emergent church movement.

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Steve Bussey: began to deconstruct the methodologies that's great you know we if there is something that has become.

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Steve Bussey: Has barnacled itself onto the Church, we need to figure out what the article is from the boat and we need to consistently clear our barnacles.

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Steve Bussey: The problem is that they move from deconstructing the the methodology to deconstructing the message, and I believe that we are across the world in a serious crisis because of that.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, I mean that that's a challenge and when when I think about the question myself like.

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Andy Miller III: What am I doing here.

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Andy Miller III: yeah I don't I don't want to be in a place where i'm just described that well i'm not the emergent i'm not changing a message instead I keep on wanting to highlight the beauty of what the message is.

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Andy Miller III: mean it's easy for us to kind of be sidelined order to be pushed this is like we're just these.

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Andy Miller III: Anti people instead you kind of look at the very essence of creation like God is love the that kind of before all time began God exists as three persons undivided in essence co equal and power and.

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Andy Miller III: glory in a loving relationship they create.

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Andy Miller III: Out of that existence and then put the world on a trajectory where even as result of the Senate has fallen into world there's an opportunity.

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Andy Miller III: to experience a recreation and a rebirth and this comes ultimately through the person of Jesus, and this is why, like.

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Andy Miller III: I want to highlight this as much as possible, because I believe this is what everybody needs, not just for this life, but for the life that come back, we need something to stand in place of our sin someone to stand in place of our sins.

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Andy Miller III: To take on like, as we say, like it's very one of the clearest places that we actually have the word just in the Salvation Army articles of faith and says we're justly exposed to the wrath of God.

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Andy Miller III: I always think it's kind of interest really talk about justice.

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Andy Miller III: Well, what How does justice express itself most fully in the person of Jesus.

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Andy Miller III: In that, if this is the case that we can be freed from our sins, that we can be freed.

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Andy Miller III: For a joyful obedience that we can experience the power of the Holy Spirit on our lives now and then that's not just like a personal thing that's.

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Andy Miller III: Like a social reality it's something that we anticipate the new creation, now that Jesus is going to return and he's going to put all things right there's going to be a new heavens, and a new earth there's going to be judgment there I believe in heaven and hell.

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Andy Miller III: And all of these things are part of a reality.

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Andy Miller III: That like encompasses might be that's what i'm for, and I want people to be able to experience that blessing their life, so why do I, why do I critique the challenges of deconstruction now.

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Andy Miller III: Well it's because, like it only people are not able to experience the fullness that God has for them, and like i'm not going to settle for people just saying you know what.

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Andy Miller III: i'm deconstructing right now well, maybe you're analyzing and that's my job as a as a theological educator like I want people to have the firm foundation for what they believe go let's do that let's do that.

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Andy Miller III: Well we're not we're not going to say that everything that came before us needs to be torn down like at the same time, I think that's a real danger, particularly Steve as we highlighted the message.

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Steve Bussey: yeah so I could not agree more, you know, and I mean like.

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Steve Bussey: Again, you know we we are for the transformation of our world.

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Steve Bussey: Yes, and somewhere along the line and I do think it's largely I think that again when you look at that that even joke old tradition of the Wesley and movement and the holiness movement in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Steve Bussey: You saw this, I think, Timothy Smith in his book revivalism and reform illustrates so beautifully that that there is a revival it on an eternal level of souls that are being saved people who are going to have and then evidently leads to the transformation of society right.

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Steve Bussey: And so, when we talk about this i'm not talking about this as an individualist and saying you know i'm saved.

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Steve Bussey: i'm going to lock myself in my church and wait for Jesus to come and get me know me, I mean this is not just good news for me.

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Steve Bussey: That that when the Gospel and the glory of God fully ready it's not within myself but within my social network.

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Steve Bussey: And within my Community inevitably reform society so if we want looking at a very temporal level the benefit what i'm for is the transformation society.

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Steve Bussey: I am for justice, I am for inclusion, I am for all of these things out of every person experiencing the love of God is communicated, but the question is, what is the best way to do that, and I believe it's when we are aligned to the classical Christianity.

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Andy Miller III: Right this, and this is why this this piece of like I tend to say like what what we're about in general, like the classical consensual tradition of the church and we're not trying to.

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Andy Miller III: You know it kind of reforming the way that they express their identity and they they put it all together.

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Andy Miller III: Talk about the blood anymore, this is, I mean this type of thing that is what's happening in and method is the United Methodist and for a long time, no, we can't talk about this well what is behind this it's an understanding of the atonement that says no, no.

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Steve Bussey: Okay, I think, because, again, you know, this is something which is just conversely if it's set in love, but I do think that, on this issue, I think we need to be very clear here's things which I forgot for a minute Okay, if I can just read this.

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Steve Bussey: here's what I would affirm and that's what it says on their website, a strong, consistent identity helps answer questions such as who are we.

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Steve Bussey: We probably can look through that right yeah we're part of the universal church raised up by God, with a unique identity and proud history.

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Steve Bussey: And then, here comes here's the linchpin, however, the words and images used by the first sub agents, do not have the same impact today.

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Steve Bussey: So the question which I have in that linchpin sort of statement is if the blood and fire is the engine of the vehicle Salvation Army and you're saying we're taking this out.

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Andy Miller III: Essential identity, and this is, I kind of like you and I are learning from united Methodist some is that this is what's happened for them there's a kind of like a little bait and switch okay Okay, we can agree that were a little cautious where you're going here.

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Steve Bussey: How is it that those any some people could initiate as something that leads to a slip like we've seen, but with the umc and GMC I think it's those who get into key positions of leadership.

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Steve Bussey: I think that those people who are in those positions can tip the tide of any organization, so if your church of nazarene if you're are part of a holiness church if you're part of a cm you know mission alliance.

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Andy Miller III: Right, so that that's why we want to be so cautious as you get to this place is like it's it's not because, like we're just heresy hunters, just like.

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Andy Miller III: Oh, this threatens the very existence of the organizations like not just not just like our denomination, but this is coming our way, and this is why, like.

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Andy Miller III: What happened part of what happened in a method is different in the Salvation Army, like the way our educational system is set up is.

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Andy Miller III: They got the the seminaries very all very few like the denominational seminary is funded by the by the denomination as a whole we're promoting teaching that was not consistent with its own statements of faith.

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Andy Miller III: So that that was this they got a hold of that they held on and that produce next generation ministers.

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Steve Bussey: And can I just say this, I will give you a very practical illustration from last week, I was just on Facebook, I was actually showing a quote from the next methodism from your friend pat o'reilly he was just on a couple weeks ago.

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Steve Bussey: Right, even the authority of scripture do you believe that in you know that we are totally depraved and justin disposable as well, do you believe in heaven and hell, and the response to me was, I am not accountable to you and I don't need to answer those questions.

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Steve Bussey: Now, when somebody says that that should signal to us wait a second you know if we cannot agree to the guardrails here then then really i'm not having a debate with a person who is aligned i'm having a debate with somebody who is a fox in the henhouse.

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Andy Miller III: Right it's a not to not act and to have, and I think I saw you interact there and I think some of that's gone now, but you know you still did it not attacking the person.

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Andy Miller III: But it let's just get there now talking about the idea of Canon in theology, and this is where like my teacher billy Abraham comes into play and his book cannon criteria and is there.

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Andy Miller III: So it can we say there is such a thing as a canon of Salvation Army believes, and how would we get there.

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Andy Miller III: So this is, this is an important piece, for us to say like there is that and okay i'll give you an example.

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Andy Miller III: Things I haven't read done it, but what I what the goal was I walked through all 11 articles of faith.

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Andy Miller III: If you're in the Washington holiest tradition, you would affirm all of these you would just like us to have sacraments in there until we die but that's another story okay so as we work through that.

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Andy Miller III: When when we went through all seven statements basically everyone, he said no, I can't I can't go I can't be that why can't take that one no I don't I don't believe that one anymore.

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Andy Miller III: I i'm i'm open to saying that there's a couple of words or a comma or something could be moved in the 11 articles of faith.

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Andy Miller III: yeah, but it is an epistemological relevant tori statement, so if we if we have that as a.

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Andy Miller III: of how scriptures have been interpreted across the centuries, that.

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Andy Miller III: Let me get all the whole history of doctrine here, but we didn't come to a place where that our particular tradition and you could do this with the founders of various other movements in the same tradition.

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Andy Miller III: You know, through john Wesley to William booth that they had a distinct way to think about the salvation of the world.

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Andy Miller III: like this, then I would think the the writings and the work they're not canonized in a sense that they are in the same value of scripture.

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Andy Miller III: But reading what women Catherine booth rope radiant the early leaders and Salvation Army help us define that how that has been crystallized through the years.

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Steve Bussey: of Salvation Army theology I would absolutely agree with that and if I could just give another illustration to your point and you and I were actually both at the same conference in 2012 i'm in Florida at a.

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Steve Bussey: yeah yeah so social services conference right 2014 2014 sorry yeah that's right and and a very dear friend of mine stood up who had been brought to speak at the conference, and he said, you know doctrine five guy don't really believe that anymore.

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Steve Bussey: denomination has had to say, these are the foundations, these are the things that define who it is that we are that identity is fixed those values are fixed or transcendent right if you don't agree with those.

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Steve Bussey: This is secular trend right they see this core ideology that defines an engineering curriculum organization it's self identity that remains consistent through time and transcends product and market cycles technological breakthroughs management that's an individual leaders.

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Steve Bussey: There is a track of writings that are consistent within the Salvation Army and within the broader you know Wesley in Holiness, and even a revivalist and I would say evangelical traditions right and it would go back as well to the early church fathers.

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Andy Miller III: The so we use that here is available similar I know asbury seminary does as well, his classic.

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Andy Miller III: Systematic theology used to be in three volumes look, if you read that and you're in one of these traditions there's not anything in there, that you know you that goes against the core beliefs instead like what will happen.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, yeah absolutely and maybe it's a good time for us to transition like so you and I affirm that there is a basis for saying there is a Salvation Army theology.

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Andy Miller III: That can be refined that can be thought through that can be clarified, but there's a foundation from which we move in that direction and I maintain that that comes within the Covenant that every member of the savage me church signs and that's in our soldiers covenant.

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Andy Miller III: Which is still i'm still on my wall at this point, so I can confirm it now when things come about is that.

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Andy Miller III: there's some some resources that are being used within the United States within you know our particular expression of the Salvation Army in our context that.

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Andy Miller III: there's been some troubling trends within the media and people know i'm talking about so i'm just going to say it, and I want to be very cautious in in how I handle this and, like to do this in love, but trying to also be that pastor shepherd that god's called me to be and profit to.

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Andy Miller III: The Orange curriculum, please know that as you start to talk about this, there is not a at the start of it, not a bigger.

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Andy Miller III: I don't know there might be a bigger, but I was one of the biggest fans and I was so thankful my wife and I, we were the kind of when a test scores.

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Andy Miller III: We you can find five videos on the orange sight of me kind of like saying this is this, we need to find a new cup a new form new ways to communicate the same truth and I felt like they had done the.

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Andy Miller III: They had done the work to like understand like how to get the kids there's a lot of like great resources that are used for parents great ways to think of things I went to the conference i've been a part of very thing so we've been i've been a fan of the method.

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Andy Miller III: So Steve why don't you just highlight we may give me a second to pull up some of the screenshots that unfortunately.

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Steve Bussey: Andy as well, I mean like again we've been you know, we ran a school for you, for training we're very much advocates of of the best methodology to be able to train on.

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Steve Bussey: wow right, you know and Catherine William booth I mean William and Kevin booth belief in this so much that one of the earliest books books and limbu throat was the training of children.

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Steve Bussey: And then I stopped titles how our children can be made and the scenes and soldiers right, you know now, the reason why they had this, though, is that in 1875.

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Steve Bussey: Do you know that William booth bandit because he said, we were not going to do any more successful, not because we don't want disciple kids.

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Steve Bussey: But because the methodology had been the message throughout in the methodology had been come corrupted and as a result of that he said, if we do, continue to do this.

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Steve Bussey: And so that led to the exploration of best better methodology which led to the founding of junior soldiers and eating at when to unblock.

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Steve Bussey: This has always been a key point now today as well in 2010 I went to national headquarters and propose that we need to look at digital technology.

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Steve Bussey: You know our mission right which is orange doesn't a very creative way I don't have any critique over any of that stuff, however.

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Andy Miller III: And I think, as even I was a part of administering the curriculum, you know the curriculum resource this this like method over the last few years.

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Andy Miller III: Now emphasize scripture go ahead um, but I think our challenge is to say, well, the our denomination which you know you and I both die that Salvation Army churches are.

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Andy Miller III: are paying for this right and we're buying a product and we.

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Andy Miller III: We think a product should be consistent with who we are, as a movement and it shouldn't be anti sector and ethical so it's just a call like I hope it's still you I don't know about you Steve I can't say a few I hope it's still gets used because I think it's a great model.

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Andy Miller III: yeah I just that the mission has been diluted.

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Andy Miller III: You know sure get on to me for saying that i'm just closed minded narrow minded person, but I want my kids to receive the gospel truth.

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Andy Miller III: So that's a.

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Andy Miller III: that's where I am.

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Steve Bussey: He can kind of add this as well just a bit of history here in 2003 I believe it was Christian Smith published his book soul searching which we came out the national study of youth and religion.

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Steve Bussey: And in that he coined the phrase, where he saw across the board, there was a new religion right, which some people said it's actually new worldview, which would be what he calls moralistic therapeutic Deism.

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Steve Bussey: Right what that, basically, is is you know, rather than talking about sin and consequence we talked about morality.

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Steve Bussey: run the talking about theology, we talked about therapy God wants you to feel good you know it's something that's.

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Steve Bussey: run the talking about a transcendent imminent God right we talked about almost a theistic God, who is an ounce of landlord who really isn't you know, like a genie in the bottle you call when you need them.

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Steve Bussey: yeah what's scary is last year on the barna research group came out and they based upon Christmas definition they predicted that 70% of American evangelical.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, yes it's.

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Steve Bussey: A fully embraced moralistic therapeutic Deism.

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Steve Bussey: right that to me a startled.

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Steve Bussey: Right absolutely story that means, and then it goes through Okay, we believe, to can guard rails on 11 doctrines.

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Steve Bussey: That this if people are embracing this they're not necessarily embracing justification sanctification they're not in a state of continue to be in faith, which means that we could intentionally be inoculating people convincing them they're saved, but actually sending them to hell.

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Andy Miller III: Yes, yeah it's.

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Andy Miller III: hard to say that Steve but it's just the truth, I mean.

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Andy Miller III: If we affirm what we like what we've learned from beginning like you know, of course, this is when we said chief Jane danger for the next generation is a belief of heaven without help.

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Andy Miller III: i'm okay to exist in a society where people don't believe in hell.

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Andy Miller III: yeah right i'm not okay with that being a Salvation Army.

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Steve Bussey: Under percent.

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Andy Miller III: yeah and so like this is like it's okay like you're free orange to do what you want to do like that's fine.

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Andy Miller III: But and.

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Steve Bussey: So it just comes to that point they can believe that, but they need to not then they need to step out of this.

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Steve Bussey: On a they should come to our core.

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Steve Bussey: You know and stuff like that, but but but, but you violate your covenant of sponsorship level loan officer ship right.

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Andy Miller III: If you do, and you can, and this is exactly what's happened in methodism.

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Andy Miller III: Is that there is they tried to come up with ways say okay let's come up with a agree to disagree thing and we'll just all.

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Andy Miller III: find ways to make this happen there is called the one church plan that existed for a while, but know if people aren't content for you and I, to believe.

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Andy Miller III: In these core doctrines like they want us to change like I think people generally want us to change because they think they found the truth and we're we're not change we're not changing here.

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Andy Miller III: So this is that I like for you to highlight some of the things that you've seen, particularly that are concerning again, like you, this what we might be able to do this it's just you know to write leaders and say look.

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Andy Miller III: These particular things are problematic, and we were not saying that needs all all go down into, but we want things that are consistent with what we've defined Salvation Army what Salvation Army theology has been defined, to be.

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Steve Bussey: One of the first big thing I mean again, you know, in terms of the best method to be able to deliver the Gospel i'm all for using fun i'm using i'm all for using creativity, I mean I train people on how to use creative strategies right, but if creativity compromises content we're in trouble.

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Steve Bussey: Right So the first thing is every single bit of what we are doing needs to have be stylized in the best way, but it needs to be packed with substance from our youngest kids to our tour tour adults who are using this and I find that there isn't the depth if we don't have.

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Andy Miller III: anything to say save exceed.

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Andy Miller III: The like what are some specifics, like you, are more attuned to what is going on at their conference and some of those things like I have one.

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Steve Bussey: done.

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Andy Miller III: I just yes morning.

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Steve Bussey: yeah so so so the biblical worldview piece right Secondly, I would say that if we are introducing things.

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Steve Bussey: That are not just sort of water down but are actually contrary to a biblical worldview it's one thing to sort of be watering down the biblical view but when you shift from a water done biblical worldview to a.

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Steve Bussey: To a worldview, that is antithetical to a biblical worldview that's when my alarms are going off for now my daughter is in charge of Christian education from the south from in the western territory.

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Steve Bussey: Right so she went to the orange Conference, and I mean we do know as well that you know I mean you can read you know, there was some reaction before, when some of their promo material came out which seemed very humanistic.

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Andy Miller III: and its outcome right.

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Steve Bussey: But my daughter started sending me pictures of things which were on the screen, she said that while they were at their Conference, I mean you know they were singing.

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Steve Bussey: songs worship songs from the greatest showman you know, and you know and something, then they started sharing these quotes and it was like a strange like on she said she said, like it was like scripture was.

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Steve Bussey: sort of almost like the stepchild that sort of got mentioned on the sideline, but they were sharing foods from that that were really I mean like if you were.

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Steve Bussey: If you were on oprah winfrey you know it would be, it would resonate you know I mean, but what but it doesn't really sort of it's not written in any type of scripture or in type any type of person tradition that we're talking about.

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Steve Bussey: So that type of thing began to really, really signal red flags for me saying wait a second you know, and I think, at best, you know this warrants a conversation of saying.

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Steve Bussey: We need to make sure if we are both investing in your in your company, and along with that utilizing you as as a vehicle through which to shape a biblical worldview, you need to you need to be aligned to what we're doing.

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Andy Miller III: Otherwise, we might not have time to go into some.

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Andy Miller III: specifics, because we are, we are unfortunately running off, but some of the things that come with this like it was like a heavy.

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Andy Miller III: heavy emphasis on human humaneness like lucky and human and I think that's like the challenge that we have is like.

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Andy Miller III: Where where does the doctrine of sin fit in two hours right now i'm again I, you have to use it, though language doctrine Shin hematology you have to say, like this, so today we're not asking you to be like intellectual.

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Andy Miller III: In this, but we're.

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Andy Miller III: Saying like where does what what what is the goal of what's happening to be more authentically human okay.

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Andy Miller III: i'm managing there's a way you could condition that to make it work within our like we are creators, be this way, but because of sin then Jesus resurrection presents us with me OK, I can maybe couch that.

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Andy Miller III: But what ends up being is it leans back in on the Christian Smith moral therapeutic Deism which I think like we're not where you and I aren't prepared to be as specific as as we can and we don't have the time to go into details, I did get this morning just.

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Steve Bussey: As I.

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Andy Miller III: walk into this podcast.

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Andy Miller III: That the and maybe this is wrong so i'm willing to be corrected and Stephen are both willing to be corrected and we'll come back and say.

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Andy Miller III: That if we need to.

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Andy Miller III: But that the the person who designs, the Director of the 252 kids and preaching curriculum on his instagram post identifies himself as he him and his he, like has that there he really is retreated Richard rohr quotes that and also the same thing with john self Shelby spawn spawn.

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Andy Miller III: A retweet saying ultimate truth from the actual person, this is a quote he put out ultimate truth is never well served by little words developed by limited human minds.

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Andy Miller III: So we used to be cautious with what we have here like can is truth discoverable yeah.

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Andy Miller III: Is there objective truth.

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Steve Bussey: And I mean I think what scared me equals Richard rohr Brian mclaren rob bell for those who might not know who these people are these are people that have seriously question the foundation of evangelical believes.

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Steve Bussey: In fact, Richard rohr who races book The universal grace where he basically sort of challenges our entire solitary ology he actually dedicate his book to his dog in him, he is who Christ, is he says, I can probably say that demons his dog was Christ for me.

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Andy Miller III: wow wow.

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Steve Bussey: I mean.

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Andy Miller III: yeah obviously like the ontological reality they're like it's one thing to say, like when you've done, at least at least you've done it to me, but maybe not your dog.

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Steve Bussey: yeah exactly i'm kind of like you know this isn't somebody who I necessarily want my kids to be trained.

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Steve Bussey: You know, you know.

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Andy Miller III: If this is another one.

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Andy Miller III: Like.

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Steve Bussey: Who was in training or kids I mean i'm red flags.

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Andy Miller III: He also from the universal Christ another orange retreat was a spiritual spirituality is about honoring the human journey loving it and living in all its wonder in tragedy.

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Andy Miller III: Okay, I can take a second to find a way to condition all of that, but i'm.

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Andy Miller III: honoring the human journey okay does that what does that include what worldview does that include does it include a doctrine of understanding of the fall redemption like or or however, and we, we know where Richard rohr falls on this yeah.

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Andy Miller III: Does that mean that we just and this, this is why i'm like really cautious with the instagram like that, because.

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Andy Miller III: Often, people like go to the instagram they go to Richard rohr because he's written on this well, what does this lead people to think about themselves like Does that mean my instincts and all that I am.

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Andy Miller III: are basically okay like i'm honoring the human journey my own how i'm feeling about myself.

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Steve Bussey: And again when you read for when you read what Brian mclaren is coming out when you come up with these guys okay so.

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Steve Bussey: they're not saying this in the back, and this is some new theology, this is the same yeah this is this is narcissism this is, you know, terrorism, this is universalism.

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Steve Bussey: You know, this is what what tom's Odin was wrestling with in the 40s and 50s and it's like the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting it to.

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Steve Bussey: buy yeah every single time.

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Steve Bussey: This has hollowed out denominations and killed them.

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Steve Bussey: yeah.

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Steve Bussey: You know so here's the thing if it's a Trojan horse that has parasitical the nature, that is, we know, has proven again and again and again to eat something up and destroy it.

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Steve Bussey: You know run them being a holiness traditional being a hollowness tradition, you know because we've been eating from the inside out right.

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Steve Bussey: At what point do we say no i'm sorry this isn't something new, this isn't some new experiment, this is as for 2000 years that track has led to death, therefore, if we do this, this is going to kill every person who we are committed to saving.

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Andy Miller III: Steve your breach and some truth there my man like I, this is very hard for us like like I would come to this.

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Steve Bussey: But actually this.

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Steve Bussey: But kind of kind of just say any.

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Steve Bussey: This is not.

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Steve Bussey: Hard stuff.

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Steve Bussey: So.

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Andy Miller III: it's it's.

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Andy Miller III: it's different you know I mean I say it's hard.

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Steve Bussey: yeah there is so here's here's the tough thing friends, whether we are on the extreme Right or the extreme left there are syncretism sufi fallen.

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Steve Bussey: When you stand true to what you know your denominations historic doctrines have been you're not being a radical if you are being a regular if you feel like you need to whisper.

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Steve Bussey: I believe in the 11 doctrines of the subject of don't tell anyone because they got radical we got something wrong right.

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Steve Bussey: yeah be like mcdonald's is saying I don't tell anyone that I like big MACs.

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Steve Bussey: You know, oh cuz I could be fired from McDonalds well.

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Andy Miller III: Let me tell you Steve when.

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Andy Miller III: I hear from a lot of those people who are whispering that right now.

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Andy Miller III: And I don't criticize them because some of them are in positions where it's really hard for them to figure out like they're honestly trying to balance out how do I.

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Andy Miller III: navigate and leverage the opportunities that I have to influence change, and you know, for what it's worth like i'm not in a position.

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Andy Miller III: To do that sort of changed like I was a year ago, when I was services have your term officer, but I can do this now like, I have a little bit more freedom to do this type.

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Andy Miller III: But what's happened is because of me, being in this seat right now it's led to other people communicating to me and look, I just want you know there's other people out there and I encourage you like not.

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Andy Miller III: Like my show isn't going to be like Joe rogan number I don't like i'm not trying to make a point i'm just trying to connect people have similar beliefs like.

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Andy Miller III: If you if you hear what Stephen are saying and you resonate with it share this with other people like let's just find avenues for encouraging people, and there are groups like I saw an interesting one pop up today by I think major Richard PS.

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Andy Miller III: yeah.

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Andy Miller III: From the Internet and division and Salvation Army and he said um and he had a group Facebook group for a while it was kind of like committed to.

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Andy Miller III: Talk about Holiness, but now he's like felt like okay Holiness is a part of it, but it's going to be orthodoxy Salvation Army orthodox like people in the consent everything that we've been saying so, there are other people out there, but it is time, it is time.

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Steve Bussey: Because.

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Andy Miller III: They your voice your voice.

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Andy Miller III: You know, like we encourage you to do that it might just be a simple because I tell you what the 3%, on the other side, whatever it might be.

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Andy Miller III: Are are definitely making their voices heard, so we want to like encourage you do that there's another thing Steve to let me let you comment on that, and then I hope we get to the polity question.

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Steve Bussey: yeah yeah, can I just say this in a post mortem of next methodism what I would say is those 58,000 people should have spoken up I studied at nyu.

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Steve Bussey: In culture right and MEDIA I studied with the people who are the architects of a lot of the stuff right, and this is the the the the the political theorist.

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Steve Bussey: Antonio Gramsci who introduced hegemonic thinking, the idea of a person who has power who creates a solid core team of their beliefs.

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Steve Bussey: that that is the the strategy which Saul alinsky you know Thompson was talking about he what he says he creates a counter head demonic force that challenges the hegemonic dominant force but.

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Steve Bussey: What this person does is takes everybody in between that.

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Steve Bussey: and stereotypes them that are saying and it's called a calf the trap right.

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Steve Bussey: Where it says, if you speak up, you will be labeled as the extreme stereotype that we've created so everyone goes oh i'm just not gonna say anything that.

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Steve Bussey: Because if I say something I will be associated with it that's called the calf calf calf calf calf trap it's a it's a counter hegemonic strategy.

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Steve Bussey: The most powerful thing which every salvation is every Methodist every Church of the nazarene.

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Steve Bussey: church and, as you guys you guys have lots of attacks going on there as well, you know, we need to begin to leverage the testimony of faithful believers and it's not wrong it's not radical to say.

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Steve Bussey: This is not aligned this leader is not aligned this communication method is not aligned this teaching is not aligned, if that is wrong then fire me.

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Andy Miller III: In this case, to i'm going to just refer people back to because of something else that's come up to my podcast I did with matt errors Dr matters President Wesley biblical seminary on.

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Andy Miller III: mixed messages on human sexuality, that that I put out because I saw there was enough coming out that was question like from.

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Andy Miller III: Official Salvation Army sources and I noticed has happened and other traditions to that is inconsistent with our articles of faith was inconsistent with the stands we've taken.

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Andy Miller III: into some more of that has happened, and maybe we'll provide links this from the Australian territory, like there's been things like a clear move away.

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Andy Miller III: From scriptures teaching and so like these things are in place in the challenge is like these other voices come in and it might feel powerless in the midst of this.

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Andy Miller III: yeah, but we do have a system and i'm not going to give this justin and just going to have to like be about five things we need to cover in the next podcast sometimes.

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Steve Bussey: For sure.

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Andy Miller III: i'm eating my lunch time which is fine, but also to get back so here's here's what I say is like.

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Andy Miller III: Our system is such that we have a hierarchical system now there's already putting off buzzwords that people have a is really problematic.

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Andy Miller III: At the same time, we have a polity like the structure of our denomination is such that there is one executing officer.

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Andy Miller III: Was that word like their their tasks CEO.

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Andy Miller III: yeah there's it's time for accountability and what a great the benefit that Salvation Army has over the Methodist church united Methodist Church is that.

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Andy Miller III: The leaders who promote certain things if they actually hold people accountable to it, it can happen.

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Andy Miller III: Like that truth of the authority of scripture they just need accountability so i've often said over the last year, where many denominations are right now.

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Andy Miller III: Is there a place for accountability or division, so if you say you believe these things we need to hold people accountable to it, otherwise what you're actually leading and guiding is inconsistent with who you are.

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Andy Miller III: yeah that's that that's the point that I think we're at.

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Steve Bussey: And I would say this governance is not a new idea, you know governance has been with us since the beginning right and the question is, are we leveraging or a talk risky right.

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Steve Bussey: was created for so.

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Steve Bussey: So we were talking about this.

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Steve Bussey: Yesterday, as well that Frederick booth Tucker wrote a biography of Catherine booze and in that.

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Steve Bussey: He was talking about actually the Methodist church and some of the conferences conference which are having after Wesley had died.

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Steve Bussey: And you know he had a point 100 who were going to succeed, to him Jay bez bunting at that point was in charge, he was very much a.

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Steve Bussey: despotic autocrat I think you can say, and it created a lot of conflict, at the same time, you had transatlantic revivals coming over from America James corden phoebe multiple honor and others.

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Steve Bussey: who were there and and it created a conflict, you know with the movement of the western in the form of sort of came out of that which was very sort of democratic in nature and things like that.

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Steve Bussey: Catherine William booth we're looking for something that would hold out, they could see benefits in the wesleyan Methodist and benefits in the western reformers, particularly in the fly sheets were going on the team was.

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Steve Bussey: 4949 yeah yeah yeah it went over several years, I think I believe.

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Steve Bussey: But but, but what they want is is they use these terms very big talker he said that we're able to combine the stability and elasticity.

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Steve Bussey: Of those two movements stability, you know, have a talker see in terms of our identity and our purpose our doctrines and our disciplines and then elasticity in terms of our strategy and structure that we, the solution again the Cup.

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Steve Bussey: has got to always innovate, but you need your authority to make sure that the Gospel is instilled in every program every curriculum every person, you know, and if it isn't that misalignment that's where we need to step in and.

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Andy Miller III: boy it's worth autocracy.

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Andy Miller III: isn't necessarily we're talking like in the pure political sense of that word.

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Andy Miller III: Know said I I talked to see almost in our time, it would be even the role of a CEO in a corporation.

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Andy Miller III: Like there their job is like.

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Andy Miller III: To maintain the mission of people in charge your operation.

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Steve Bussey: there's people protected.

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Andy Miller III: that's right So when I say 1849 why it's worth there was at the expulsion from the wesleyan Methodist conference this was like a denomination of sorts of what they wouldn't have used that term at that time kicked out three people, including William booth first pastor.

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Andy Miller III: from Nottingham Samuel done.

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Andy Miller III: And so, like this is all, and this is why i'm working on my dissertation should not feel like there's enough movement ecclesial logically.

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Andy Miller III: In these first you know 55 years 60 years of methodism after john Wesley where there was like trying to figure out what it meant to embraces like achieve which had a very similar autocratic focus I like.

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Andy Miller III: Like he was primarily or but, yet it was a reform movement so they're trying to fit to the Church of England so we're trying to figure that out.

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Andy Miller III: And then, by time we get to the point when William booth leaves the methods new connection, which is one of these splinter groups that came off of methodism he did so because of polity now.

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Andy Miller III: Now this is the.

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Andy Miller III: keep this in mind, like this is why the Salvation Army eventually comes into existence is because there's an ecclesial logical matter there wasn't somebody putting in the conference was making a decision of political decision.

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Andy Miller III: And what that was was basically no way in booth you're going to have to move up the chairs, but also.

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Andy Miller III: They didn't affirm the role of the evangelist from efficient for.

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Andy Miller III: yeah.

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Andy Miller III: I think I think it's an athlete logical matter they didn't like he wanted to be an itinerant evangelists and they wouldn't affirm that so that's part of why he left and What did he start now I don't like to our hierarchy I think of more.

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Andy Miller III: Because there's problems in Hindi at down to future generations yeah because it has become unconnected to the reality of the of the real world in the field, but what ends up happening.

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Andy Miller III: Is that that William booth starts this group and it's I think of it more as a systolic its ascending it's a coordinating admission it's accountability.

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Andy Miller III: So that's that's part of what I would.

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Steve Bussey: say.

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Steve Bussey: Can I just add to that welcome to talk with hierarchy as well, I can actually show you from 1924 there was an organizational study of the Salvation Army done that showed the flowchart.

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Steve Bussey: Of when eventually booth was commander of the army in America and basically the flowchart was about 30 different people, all of which an answer to eventually booth.

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Andy Miller III: yeah yeah.

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Steve Bussey: Interestingly enough, that was a flat organizational structure, but it was still autocratic.

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Steve Bussey: In 1969 when booz Allen Hamilton did a study they actually took the GM model and built that into the service owners lot of extra for which have built.

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Steve Bussey: Multiple layers autocracy, which then almost became more bureaucratic rather than autocratic I actually think we need to understand what is the proper theology of a taxi.

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Steve Bussey: Now, going back to the Salvation Army in 1875 William booth adopted the policy of the Methodist new connection and immediately had political issues within the Christian mission.

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Steve Bussey: And that's where you know bramble booth or Scott railton other said we don't need a general superintendent, we need a general.

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Steve Bussey: Right.

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Steve Bussey: That is going to say let's stop debating these things like we know what is true let's stand by what is true, and today we have a general still right.

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Steve Bussey: That is able to say, this is our doctrine that you know and i'm glad that our general has said, this is where we stand on these issues right and and I think that's not that that that actually can be a strength that can.

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Andy Miller III: Actually fulfill those statements that he's.

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Andy Miller III: That the generals had through the years you know, in general, after General has been.

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Andy Miller III: considered which which.

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Andy Miller III: demonstrates that there is such a thing as the Salvation Army theology.

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Steve Bussey: yeah absolutely absolutely.

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Andy Miller III: Is accountability, now we don't know what's happening behind the scenes, so we get we leave room for that that we might not understand the full picture.

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Andy Miller III: We do we do think like a when people are breaking off from scripture when they're breaking out from the consensual tradition of the Church, this is where we get into trouble.

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Steve Bussey: Now I do think that that's supposed to speak to.

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Steve Bussey: Discipline where, if you have somebody that is not aligned that leader has the right to remove that person, you know, William booth removed some of his own children right yeah you know.

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Andy Miller III: And again i'm making the argument interesting Steve We just need to come back together that what what happens with the the three children that left as ecclesial logical crisis.

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Andy Miller III: yeah.

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Steve Bussey: yeah I mean this is like the neutral about.

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Andy Miller III: How the church works, but that's for my dissertation which I probably need to be writing right now.

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Steve Bussey: And I finished with this last thing.

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Andy Miller III: One more thing yeah.

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Steve Bussey: Just lastly it's very, very quick, because I think it's summarize up everything that we've talked about from the beginning to the end, Peter greer and Chris horse have written a brilliant book called mission drift.

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Steve Bussey: Actually, the subtitle of it, let me see where I put the subtitle on it anyways it's basically our leaders churches and.

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Steve Bussey: charities can basically say true you know the another crisis that's facing our leaders churches and charities.

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Steve Bussey: But they introduce three different definitions mission true mission drift in mission untrue, and I think every single one of us need to be thinking about this.

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Steve Bussey: They define a mission to organization as an organization that knows the DNA of their founders.

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Steve Bussey: And replicate and reinforce that DNA in their organizations it change and adapt your that, certainly, but they don't budge on mission their leaders are uniform on immutable.

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Steve Bussey: They wake up thinking about their core identity and garden with the tenacious and contagious Ferber.

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Steve Bussey: mission drift though unfold slowly like a current security organizations away from their core purpose and identity.

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Steve Bussey: And then, a mission on true organization is a point when the flames of Christian distinctiveness lose all visibility, despite the founding identity, they no longer have any concerns about their Christian mission or any desire to create sorry safeguards to protect it.

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Steve Bussey: I think the card question for all of us.

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Steve Bussey: both as individuals and as denominations is ask ourselves, are we being mission true are we in a state of drift or winona state where we're fully untrue.

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Steve Bussey: If we are untrue friends.

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Steve Bussey: I mean, we believe that you know you know repenting you know confessing.

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Steve Bussey: Restoring is.

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Andy Miller III: It might maybe a litmus test for that is like how often in have you called for repentance.

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Andy Miller III: yeah how often How often have you called for me i'm not saying just like on these matters like.

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Andy Miller III: Often, does that happen.

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Steve Bussey: In your congregation I think I think the challenge is that so often.

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Steve Bussey: We can see that so clearly and other people.

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Steve Bussey: Right, but our hubris causes us to realize well.

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Steve Bussey: I am completely aligned it's everyone else's online.

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Steve Bussey: I asked myself Steve.

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Steve Bussey: Am I in a state of drift Steve am I, being untrue right and that's The thing is that if every one of us could have the humility to ask yourself those questions I think a lot of these things will begin to Preston so.

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Andy Miller III: you're right yep and there's somebody I think I ever heard this from Isaiah Allen who used to be certainly.

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Andy Miller III: He said he quoted somebody else I can't remember who it was he's like he says no problem in our tradition couldn't be solved with better discipleship.

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Andy Miller III: Absolutely like I.

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Steve Bussey: sense yeah.

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Andy Miller III: I believe that part of where we are.

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Andy Miller III: So thanks so much for your time see we definitely are going to be doing this again.

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Andy Miller III: And we have other subjects that we didn't get to read i'm thankful thankful for you and the influence that you and Sharon have and looking forward to seeing where this goes if you all in mind so again subscribing liking.

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Andy Miller III: sharing this with other people, even if you don't feel like you're in position to share public and Facebook they'll, of course, that or social media that's a great way.

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Andy Miller III: sharing it via email like say hey some of these things that Andy and see are talking about I think really are connected.

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Andy Miller III: To some of the problems that we're experiencing in in note to like if you try to characterize what we're doing is like this hateful sort of thing or whatever.

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Andy Miller III: Just remember like we started off by talking about the beauty of the Gospel that we're four and we want that we want to express that so thanks so much Steve and we'll be in touch.

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Steve Bussey: and any thanks so much for all that you're doing love the podcast you got to keep keep doing this man keep speaking prophetically into the broader church and into the Salvation Army.

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Andy Miller III: Thanks Steve all right i'll just pause.

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