The Rural Church Podcast 2.0

Allen and Eddie talk about the recent conference at Perryville 2nd Baptist Church with Tom Ascol and Mike Stone. Link to all messages from the conference and the panel discussion with Owen Strachan can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZkGXeKWedWGR0FI55C_ZmYvQMW9kQfNT After the conference review, the guys talk about the importance and necessity of Christian friendship. 

In this week's episode, Eddie and Allen talk about Allen's forthcoming book (4/7/23) with Free Grace Press, A Change of Heart: Understanding Regeneration and Why it Matters. For more information about the book, you can contact Allen on his twitter page, @cuatronelson. You can also go to the Free Grace Press website here for the special sale price: https://freegracepress.com/products/a-change-of-he...

Eddie and Allen finish their discussion on the Biblical distinctives of a healthy church in this week's episode. They talk about the regulative principle of worship, the roles of men and women in worship, and the importance of the home and church fellowship. They also share some practical wisdom on reformation in the church. 

Eddie and Allen discuss the biblical distinctives of leadership and membership in the church. Who can be Elders and Deacons? How many should there be? Should church membership really be formal and covenantal? These questions and more are discussed in this week's episode! 

In this episode, Eddie and Allen pick up where they left off in Episode 27 on biblical distinctives of a healthy church. This week they discuss how local churches ought to think rightly about evangelism and missions. 

On this week's episode, the guys discuss the why and how of having a conference at your local church. They also talk about going to conferences both "big name" and small. 

Christ is worthy of a healthy church in every community across the globe. In this week's episode, Eddie and Allen talk about the need for healthy churches and begin discussing 10 biblical distinctives of a healthy church. They only make it through the first 3: Biblical Sufficiency, Biblical Holiness, and Biblical Preaching. That means there will be some more episodes in the future covering the rem...

God's people are praying people. Jesus said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer...’ In 1 Timothy 2, Paul exhorts the churches to be places of prayer. This week on the Rural Church Podcast 2.0, Eddie and Allen talk about prayer meetings in the local church - Why they are necessary and how to conduct them! 

God has communicated to His people in words to be read. God's people are readers! While the Bible takes the highest priority over all other reading, Christians also seek to read other books to learn, grow, exercise their imagination, etc. In this episode, Eddie and Allen discuss how to choose the right books to read and some practical tips on reading that will encourage you in the days ahead to be...

Allen is joined again by Alex, Jacob, and Gunner somewhere south of Pontoon Arkansas. The guys discuss the importance of godly manliness and various ways to cultivate godly manhood in the local church. This episode was recorded before baby Jace was born. Now that he has arrived, big congrats to Jacob, Taylor, Trey, and Jack!

This week Allen is joined by church members Jacob Robinson, Gunner Madewell, and Alex Osborne from an undisclosed location in the boondocks of Perry County Arkansas. The guys discuss mishaps from dealing with Covid and what churches should have learned from that as well as what sort of emphases churches ought to have in a post-Covid environment. The local church still matters! 

Happy New Year! In the U.S., we are blessed with abundant access to God's Word. Christians here ought to be reading the Bible every day. Why and how should this be done? Eddie and Allen discuss these things as well as their own strategies for regular Bible reading. This is a practical episode that exhorts you to read the Bible! Eddie mentioned this YouTube video of a clip of one of Allen's Sermons...

In the final episode of 2022, Allen and Eddie discuss pastoral visitation. When and why should pastors visit church members? How should we think about hospital visits? 

Don't worry, Harold Smith won't actually sing. But he's back on this episode with Eddie and Allen as they seek to encourage pastors in networking with other pastors, in preaching the Word, and in remaining faithful where the Lord has called them. The guys offer ideas for fellowship with other pastors as well as in doing small church conferences and in encouraging the people of God in the Word of G...

Eddie and Allen have a conversation with Harold Smith (@BackwoodsBapti1) co-host of The Patriot Pastor's podcast about his ministry of helping pastorless churches. In this episode, you'll hear Harold's love for the local church and why he believes in the importance of biblically healthy churches no matter their size or location. 

Christmas is on a Sunday in 2022. How should local churches "respond" to Christmas falling on the Lord's Day this year? Should anything be different? Should everything be the same? Should we just have another "ordinary" service? Eddie and Allen dive in on these questions and more in this week's episode of the Rural Church Podcast 2.0. 

Eddie and Allen continue their discussion of Allen's series through Ephesians. They tackle some practical questions about preaching through specific texts and the need for expositional preaching beyond just preaching through books of the Bible, i.e. topical series, teaching through catechisms/confessions, etc. 

Eddie and Allen talk some about Thanksgiving and then the reformation happening in their churches. Next, they discuss Allen's sermon series through the book of Ephesians as they get back to last week's episode about Expositional Preaching on the ground. 

Eddie and Allen get into the nuts and bolts of Expositional Preaching by discussing Eddie's current sermon series through the book of Jonah. Eddie mentions this commentary in the episode: https://onemilliontracts-com.3dcartstores.com/Commentary-on-Jonah-_p_308.html

In this episode, we listen to a sermon excerpt from Allen Nelson from Ephesians 4:31-32 on why the local church is a non-negotiable for New Testament Christianity. You can find the full sermon at www.perryvillesbc.org. 

Eddie and Allen discuss Mike Law's letter to the SBC Executive committee about the biblical qualifications for pastors and how moving away from the bible's teaching on leadership in the church is a "Deformation", not Reformation. They go on to discuss why this matters and some of the root causes of these issues in churches today. They also talk about the importance of Reformation and why Reformati...

Eddie and Allen welcome Gunner again to the podcast as they all talk about the Reformation and particularly focus on the doctrine of Sola Scriptura and how pastors and church members ought to apply this to both their daily lives as well as reformation in our churches today. One book mentioned is Wycliffe by Steve Burchett. Link: https://www.ccwtoday.org/product/wycliffe-a-bible-man-in-england-when...

Eddie and Allen recap evangelism at Goat Fest. Then the guys talk about long-term ministry in a local church including the benefits and struggles of pastoring in your hometown. This episode includes practical advice about making changes in the local church. 

Eddie and Allen continue last week's conversation with Gunner and Alex. They talk more about the proper biblical motivations for evangelism, qualifications for street preachers, and the connection between evangelism and the local church. 

Eddie and Allen are joined by a returning guest, Gunner Madewell, and a new guest, Alex Osborne. The guys discuss "What is Calvinism?" as well as how this biblical system informs and fuels our evangelism, including one on one conversations, passing out tracts, and street preaching.