{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.edstetzer.com%2Fepisodes%2Flisa-harper-an-unkind-theologian-is-a-bad-one-jCfCWhto","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Lisa Harper: An Unkind Theologian Is a Bad One","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7c8e14e6-69fa-45b7-ad44-531ec8f8bb9c/2c0d6cc7-c866-4d7d-b8f7-cd7aab351760/cropped_1789754473767.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Lisa Harper defines theology as talk about God, which makes every believer a theologian of some kind. Ed Stetzer tests what that definition asks of pastors, preachers, and seminaries.\n\nStetzer, who trains seminarians at Talbot School of Theology, presses Harper on two gaps: students who learn theological words without being formed by them, and leaders whose correct doctrine seems to earn a pass for bad character. Harper answers from Matthew 23 and John 5, where Jesus confronts learned men who knew the Scriptures and missed him, and from Francis Schaeffer's warning about orthodoxy without compassion. She argues that a leader who can define every term but lacks humility holds information that has not yet reached the heart. They also take up two questions every church leader faces: how much personal story belongs in teaching, and whether a doctrine like the hypostatic union belongs in a neighborhood Bible study. Harper calls the failure to teach such doctrine a failure of shepherding. \nHarper is a Bible teacher, author of A Jesus-Shaped Life, and host of the Back Porch Theology podcast. She previously directed women's ministry at Focus on the Family and has led the same neighborhood Bible study in Nashville for 15 years."}