Episode Description
Shepherds Not Hirelings
Why You Need Pastoral Care
Episode Summary
Too many men today confuse content with care. They follow pastors online, defend them in comment sections, and quote them from podcasts but when their marriage is bleeding, their son is drifting, or sin tightens its grip, those men are nowhere to be found.
In this episode of The Patriarchy Podcast, Pastor Joseph Spurgeon sits down with Aaron Prelock, pastor of Bloomington Bible Church and newly elected president of New Geneva Academy, to expose the lie of influencer Christianity and recover the biblical vision of real shepherds.
We talk about what pastoral care actually is, why the modern church has traded shepherds for platforms, how this damages men and families, and why your soul depends on being known, corrected, and loved by faithful elders.
This is a call to stop drifting. Stop just consuming. Christ did not redeem you to be untethered. He bought a people and gave them shepherds, not hirelings.
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Episode Chapters
00:00 – Content Is Not Care
02:20 – The Biblical Call to Shepherd the Flock
04:30 – Introducing Aaron Prelock and New Geneva Academy
08:00 – Pastoral Ministry in a Hostile Culture
13:45 – Training Pastors in Character, Conviction, and Courage
20:00 – Loving the Church as It Is, Not an Ideal
25:45 – Purity and Peace in the Church
28:30 – Sponsor: Steadfast Cigars
29:45 – What Pastoral Care Actually Is
35:10 – Why Preaching Alone Is Not Enough
41:20 – The Internet Age and the Loss of Shepherding
43:40 – Why Every Man Needs Pastoral Care
48:40 – What Real Pastoral Care Looks Like
49:55 – When Pastoral Care Becomes Abuse
55:25 – A Word to Cold and Weary Pastors
57:10 – Final Charge to Men
About the Show
The Patriarchy Podcast features in-depth conversations on faith, culture, theology, and leadership. Each episode equips Christians to live boldly and biblically in an age of compromise, calling men to reject passivity and embrace responsibility.
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