Perry Coughlin didn't set out to become a Christian Reconstructionist. He was being trained as a Wesleyan Arminian minister when a single book reoriented everything — and the questions it raised were too large to ignore from a pulpit. In this conversation with Andrea Schwartz, Perry traces his theological journey across five decades: the grip of sovereign grace, the abiding validity of God's law, the founding of a Christian school as a kingdom enterprise, and the humbling work of heart surgery and covenant faithfulness in marriage. Application, Perry insists, is not optional. It is the fruit of grace. Tags: Christian Reconstruction, Theonomy, Biblical Law, Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law, Sovereign Grace, Kingdom of God, Postmillennialism, Christian Education, Covenant Living, Reformed Theology, Chalcedon 3. Facebook Post A Wesleyan Arminian seminary student picks up Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law — and steps out of the pulpit because the questions are suddenly too large to ignore. Perry Coughlin has spent five decades working out what it means to take every word of God seriously: in his marriage, in the Christian school he built as a business, in the years of heart surgery and hospital beds, and in the daily discipline of putting off the old man and putting on the new. This is not a theoretical conversation. It's what reconstruction looks like when it comes home. New episode now available — link in bio.

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